{"product_id":"this-nearly-was-ours-paperback","title":"This Nearly Was Ours - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Guider\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn \"absorbing\" and \"gripping\" historical novel about two friends in the South whose fates are at the mercy of the unforgiving landscape of WWII.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While war cuts its grim path through this novel, the main characters battle their own demons-unexpected, unsettling and uplifting by turn.\" \u003cstrong\u003e- Kenith Trodd, TV and Film Producer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo young women come of age in New Orleans, eager to throw off the Depression. For a brief moment in 1939, the world appears to be their oyster. Claire is beautiful; Myra is brainy. But when Pearl Harbor jolts the country, men rush to enlist, women flood the work force-and the two friends scramble to find purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyra takes up a civilian post at a military camp. Claire is snapped up by Naval Intelligence to track U-boats in the Gulf. Meanwhile, Myra's childhood chum Frederick ships out to Europe; Claire's presumed intended, Richard, reports for duty in the Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile war rages abroad, the home front becomes its own battleground. Claire falls for a mysterious young man named Tomas, a Jewish immigrant with a complicated past. Although his ardor is no less than hers, he is eventually fingered as an enemy alien. Myra carries a torch for Claire's officer brother Addison, who commands a carrier in the Pacific. Through the men's letters from afar and their own challenges at home, the two friends learn how baffling, and brutal, war can be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd no one is left unscathed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50399854493933,"sku":"9781645831426","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/this-nearly-was-ours-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}