{"product_id":"war-is-beautiful-an-american-ambulance-driver-in-the-spanish-civil-war-1595584277","title":"War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1595584277\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Neugass, James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-All Quiet on the Western Front for the Spanish Civil WarIn 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the New York Times, 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.Although rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of War Is Beautiful, 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.Published now for the first time, War Is Beautiful is poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Irne 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":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51321906823456,"sku":"NEW1595584277","price":17.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71vIA1aOBiL.jpg?v=1773104685","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/war-is-beautiful-an-american-ambulance-driver-in-the-spanish-civil-war-1595584277","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}