{"product_id":"liberty-bonds-and-bayonets-a-marguerite-martyn-book-9780999014240","title":"Liberty Bonds and Bayonets: A Marguerite Martyn Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE GREAT WAR, 1917-1918\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e They were husband and wife; World War I forced them apart. Clair Kenamore was a reporter with a camera on the Western Front; Marguerite Martyn covered the home front with an interviewer's pen and artist's sketchbook. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He reported what he saw: Doughboy Sammy Goldberg coming back from the trenches with seventeen German prisoners. Blond French girls throwing flowers and flirting in German with boisterous American troops. Men dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e She asked questions, and in her drawings, her imagination soared. Fashionable women wearing fanciful war-themed hats. Befuddled diners wondering how to get around wartime food regulations. Fearful women asking: Marry before he goes overseas, or wait 'til he's home? Strong women taking on men's jobs: running a lathe, operating an elevator, building airplanes, driving trucks. Young boys knitting sweaters. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e You learn what historians can't tell you. How did civilians become soldiers? Who took their places on the job and in the fields? What did mustard gas smell like?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e You smile, too: Santa Claus checks a shopping list. A uniformed cupid challenges a draft-dodger. A busybody woman peers through a periscope. Camp followers get booted. And a \"peach\" eats a peach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e George Garrigues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999014240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"George L. Garrigues","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36647249379484,"sku":"9780999014240","price":24.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ae92669d-aef6-406c-8ae9-5afc2c543595.jpg?v=1603866539","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/liberty-bonds-and-bayonets-a-marguerite-martyn-book-9780999014240","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}