{"product_id":"the-red-planet","title":"Der rote Planet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does war ask of the people who stay behind, far from the fighting but never beyond its reach?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Red Planet, William John Locke turns to the English home front during the First World War. Families wait, work and grieve in towns and villages while the fighting continues elsewhere. Those who remain, and those who return changed, live with costs that reach into quiet places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuty to country, family and conscience does not always pull in the same direction. Locke explores the people caught between these claims with warmth, sympathy and quiet humor. Here, sacrifice means more than a visible wound, and the distance from the battlefield offers no simple shelter from war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWar in quiet places\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter English towns and villages where waiting and grief become part of daily life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe claims of duty\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider what happens when country, family and conscience ask different things of a person.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWounds beneath the surface\u003c\/strong\u003e – Look beyond bodily injury to the less visible costs of sacrifice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWarmth amid sorrow\u003c\/strong\u003e – Find a gentle storyteller whose sympathy and quiet humor leave room for human feeling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA wartime perspective\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore the home front through a novel written while the war still continues.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers drawn to fiction written during wartime and curious about the English home front in 1917, rather than fast action or battlefield scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and enter Locke’s quiet English world under the shadow of war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534766965084,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/14618_en_ebook-front_c23.jpg?v=1792175193","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/der-rote-planet","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}