{"product_id":"9781840227796","title":"The Secret Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad   (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the   Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many   friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of   characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and   ideologies. Nazism and Communism are appallingly similar, 'two poles of one   magnet', as a German camp commander tells a shocked old Bolshevik prisoner. At   the height of the battle Russian soldiers and citizens alike are at last able   to speak out as they choose, and without reprisal - an unexpected and   short-lived moment of freedom. Grossman himself was on the front line as a   war correspondent at Stalingrad - hence his gripping battle scenes, though   these are more than matched by the drama of the individual conscience   struggling against massive pressure to submit to the State. He knew all about   this from experience too. His central character, Viktor Shtrum, eventually   succumbs, but each delay and act of resistance is a moral victory. Though he   writes unsparingly of war, terror and totalitarianism, Grossman also tells of   the acts of 'senseless kindness' that redeem humanity, and his message   remains one of hope. He dedicates his book, the labour of ten years, and   which he did not live to see published, to his mother, who, like Viktor   Shtrum's, was killed in the holocaust at Berdichev in Ukraine in September 1941.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product__accordion accordion quick-add-hidden\"\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdetails id=\"Details-collapsible_tab_dDVEeR-template--25151688147283__main\"\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003csummary role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"true\" aria-controls=\"ProductAccordion-collapsible_tab_dDVEeR-template--25151688147283__main\"\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"summary__title\"\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003ch2 class=\"h4 accordion__title inline-richtext\"\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProduct Information\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/h2\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003csvg class=\"icon icon-caret\" viewbox=\"0 0 10 6\"\u003e\u003cpath fill=\"currentColor\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M9.354.646a.5.5 0 0 0-.708 0L5 4.293 1.354.646a.5.5 0 0 0-.708.708l4 4a.5.5 0 0 0 .708 0l4-4a.5.5 0 0 0 0-.708\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\u003e\u003c\/path\u003e\u003c\/svg\u003e\r\n\t\t\u003c\/summary\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cdiv class=\"accordion__content rte\" id=\"ProductAccordion-collapsible_tab_dDVEeR-template--25151688147283__main\"\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"metafield-multi_line_text_field\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vasily Grossman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDate of Publication:\u003c\/b\u003e 24\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePagination:\u003c\/b\u003e 936 pages\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eImprint:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublished By:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Classification:\u003c\/b\u003e Second World War fiction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 137 x 212 x 46\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eISBN13\/EAN\/SKU:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781841594033\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\t\u003c\/details\u003e\r\n\t\t\t\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vasily Grossman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45453552255220,"sku":"9781840227796","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2180\/9347\/files\/9781840227796_dec0260e-bbaa-4487-af45-729cded5592f.jpg?v=1758372253","url":"https:\/\/mountfloridabooks.live\/products\/9781840227796","provider":"Mount Florida Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}