{"product_id":"a-lamb-to-the-slaughter-0285626213-used","title":"A Lamb to the Slaughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0285626213\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jan Montyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDust jacket notes: \"At the age of eighteen Jan Montyn was learning how to cross a ravine hanging from a rope; at nineteen he was serving in the Baltic on a German minesweeper; by the time he was twenty he was enduring the mud, snow and slaughter of the trenches on the Eastern front; before he was twenty-one he had lived through the hell of the Allied bombing of Dresden, played cat-and-mouse with the Russian army in a last-ditch stand on the banks of the Oder, retreated across Germany into the arms of the Allied forces, escaped from a POW camp and joined the Foreign Legion. A few years later he was at war again, in Korea. An adventure story on the grand scale? Rather one of horrific experience and of a sensitive mind driven to obliterate the terrors of the past by a further dose of the same medicine. Coming from a childhood hidebound by the most rigid strictures of Dutch Calvinism, the young Montyn had seen the German Occupation of Holland and the wider opportunities it offered as the d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68214384296224,"sku":"USED0285626213","price":22.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61gkmrv1JuL_353aa132-e3e2-48a9-bc33-74b8aa7e493e.jpg?v=1794279393","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-lamb-to-the-slaughter-0285626213-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}