{"product_id":"war-is-beautiful-9781595584274","title":"War Is Beautiful","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—\u003cem\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/em\u003e for the Spanish Civil War\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, joined 2,800 other passionate young Americans who traveled to Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—an unlikely mix of artists, journalists, industrial workers, and intellectuals united in their desire to combat European fascism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of \u003cem\u003eWar Is Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e, a nuanced and deeply poetic chronicle of his service as an ambulance driver, did not come to light for sixty years, until a bookseller discovered it among papers in a New England house once occupied by the radical critic and editor Max Eastman. The memoir combines fast-paced accounts of darting onto battlefields to pick up the wounded with elegiac renderings of days spent \"on alert\" in an ever-changing series of sharply observed Spanish towns, enduring that most difficult of wartime activities: waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished now for the first time, \u003cem\u003eWar Is Beautiful \u003c\/em\u003eis poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Irène Némirovsky, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell as a transcendent contemporaneous rendering of wartime life. It includes some of Neugass's own photos taken while in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Neugass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284350677243,"sku":"9781595584274","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c7ec54fd-402a-4b60-bfd8-0586f5d293c2.jpg?v=1771406228","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/war-is-beautiful-9781595584274","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}