{"product_id":"the-great-swindle-paris-between-the-wars","title":"The Great Swindle (Paris between-the-wars)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I vetsThe year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines.When another of D'Aulnay-Pradelle's soldiers, Albert Maillard, reaches the bodies and discovers how they died, the lieutenant shoves him into a shell hole to silence him. Albert is rescued by fellow soldier, the artist Edouard P̩ricourt, who takes a bullet in the face. The war ends and both men recover, but Edouard is permanently disfigured, and fakes his death to prevent his family from seeing him as a cripple. In gratitude for Edouard's rescue, Albert becomes the injured man's companion and caregiver.Finding that the postwar gratitude for the soldiers' service is nothing more than lip-service to an empty idea, the two men scramble to survive, ultimately devising a scam to take money for never-to-be-built war memorials from small towns. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Pradelle has married Edouard's sister Madeline and is running a scam of his own that involves the exhumation of war victims.In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 127 x 197\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor: Pierre Lemaitre\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9781848665798\u003cbr\u003e\nFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 464\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bookhero.ae","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45145450217625,"sku":"4RE9781848665798","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/5696\/6297\/files\/67ad88ae7e956_The_20Great_20Swindle_20_Paris_20between-the-wars_20Pierre_20Lemaitre.jpg?v=1739466329","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.ae\/products\/the-great-swindle-paris-between-the-wars","provider":"Dubai - Buy Used\/Second-Hand Books - BookHero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}