{"product_id":"9781509812868","title":"To Die in Spring","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Rothmann, Ralf, Whiteside, Shaun, Whiteside, Shaun \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 May 2018 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 208 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 133 x 16 | 200g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter Urban and Friedrich 'Fiete' Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern Germany. By 1945, it seems the War's worst atrocities are over. When they are forced to 'volunteer' for the SS, they find themselves embroiled in a conflict which is drawing to a desperate, bloody close. Walter is put to work as a driver for a supply unit of the Waffen-SS, while Fiete is sent to the front. When the senseless bloodshed leads Fiete to desert, only to be captured and sentenced to death, the friends are reunited under catastrophic circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a few days the war will be over, millions of innocents will be dead, and the survivors must find a way to live with its legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'To Die in Spring holds its own against Gunter Grass and Erich Maria Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership' - Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43925446754563,"sku":"9781509812868","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781509812868.jpg?v=1731407982","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781509812868","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}