{"product_id":"9781509812868-to-die-in-spring","title":"To Die in Spring","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe German bestseller, a beautifully told and heart-breaking story of friendhip during wartime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn international bestseller, \u003ci\u003eTo Die in Spring \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'To Die in Spring holds its own against Günter Grass and Erich Maria Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership' – \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449903493494,"sku":"9781509812868","price":7.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28170551.jpg?v=1760446874","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781509812868-to-die-in-spring","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}