{"product_id":"2026200005108-secondhand-as-towns-with-fire","title":"As Towns With Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First American Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Jacket is slightly chipped and worn around edges, only large tear on the back of jacket - otherwise fine. Pages clear and crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWitness the internal disintegration of a man caught between his poetic soul and the brutal machinery of war. Christopher MacMannan is a struggling Irish writer living in London as the shadow of World War II lengthens. A man of deep sensitivities and fierce independence, MacMannan finds himself trapped in a visceral conflict: he loathes the fascist threat, yet his conscience revolts against the mechanical slaughter of modern combat.\n\nAs the Blitz turns London into a landscape of fire and rubble, the tension reaches a breaking point. MacMannan is eventually drawn into the Royal Air Force as a navigator, where the abstract horrors of war become a terrifying, nightly reality. Balancing his love for his wife, Molly, with the haunting guilt of his role in the destruction, MacMannan’s journey is a harrowing exploration of whether a man can survive a war without losing his humanity. Anthony C. West delivers a lyrical, high-tension masterpiece that captures the claustrophobic fear of the cockpit and the moral agony of a \"pacifist\" forced to kill.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755515031771,"sku":"2026200005108-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ccb80272-cb35-4997-89e5-6854ae81043e.png?v=1778221461","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200005108-secondhand-as-towns-with-fire","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}