{ "item_title" : "Battle Lines", "item_author" : [" Daniel Hartwell "], "item_description" : "A Belgian bargeman helps open the lock gates one night in October 1914, and the sea begins to creep over the fields the German army must cross. A coal ship is driven onto the beach at Gallipoli, and her commander ends up in the water, trying to get a bridge of lighters into position under fire. A French commandant, with almost no water left in his besieged fort, sends out his last pigeons.The First World War was fought on the Western Front and at Gallipoli, in Palestine and on the Adriatic, on land, at sea and in the air. Battle Lines gathers twenty of its most gripping episodes, from 1914 to the Armistice, and tells each one the way a great short story is told: close to one real person, under pressure, with the clock running.Then it does what no thriller will. After every story, a Fact vs Fiction Verdict separates what is documented from what the author invented, what the sources dispute and what is only legend. Popular accounts call the airship that Lieutenant Leefe Robinson brought down near London in 1916 a Zeppelin. Was it? Was Beersheba really the last great cavalry charge? Did a pigeon really stop the guns that were falling on the Lost Battalion? The verdicts give the evidence, and say so plainly when a famous line or scene cannot be proven. Every story also comes with a battle map and an engraving-style illustration.Inside: Twenty stand-alone stories, from the last gun at Néry on 1 September 1914 to Private Henry Gunther's last morning on 11 November 1918Lone Pine and V Beach, Jutland, Fort Vaux, the Newfoundland Regiment at Beaumont-Hamel, the Lusitania, the chaplain who saw Edith Cavell on her last night, Beersheba, Henry Johnson's outpost in the Argonne, Belleau Wood, Frank Luke, the telephone operators of the First Army, the Lost Battalion and Alvin YorkEvery main character is a real person, and two stories are told from the German and Austro-Hungarian sideA map, an illustration and a verdict with sources for every story, plus a map of all twenty, a timeline and a full list of sources Please note: these stories are dramatized. The people and events are real, but scenes, thoughts and much of the dialogue were imagined by the author; where a line comes from a letter, report or memoir, the verdict says so. Some stories are hard, and the author's note says so too. Daniel Hartwell is a fictional narrator. The text was drafted with AI tools from published sources and then edited; the maps and illustrations were also made with AI tools.Pick up Battle Lines and find out what really happened, and what the legend added.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/463/9798164632601_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.99", "online_price" : "13.99", "our_price" : "13.99", "club_price" : "13.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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