{"product_id":"world-without-end-paperback-1","title":"World Without End - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDennis Ford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing could have been different.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaurence Mahler returns to Petersburg after five years in the North.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe never felt he belonged in the places where he was away from home. And he never felt he belonged in the place that's home. Adrift and directionless, he's a freethinker troubled by Virginia's secession. He feels loyalty neither to the Confederacy or to the Union.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe meets Sharyn Strahy, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of means. They fall instantly in love-but the time for romance is not propitious. The quivers of love fly amid the darts of Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEncouraged by Sharyn, Laurence enrolls in a school where all the courses are pass-or-die. Enlisting in the Confederate army, his life changes in a sudden maturity when he surrenders the peaceable halls of academia for gruesome battles in grim places like The Wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNothing could have been different in Sharyn's life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnthusiastic for Confederate victory, Sharyn learns the ghastly cost of total war when she volunteers in the Virginia Hospital. The grotesque deformations she views in men made in the image of God reveal the error of her heedless patriotism. Innocence is always the first virtue obliterated in the majesty of rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42732886556735,"sku":"9781663249678","price":25.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/6961432ae8d7022c402464fb58fe5bf8.webp?v=1765134010","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/world-without-end-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}