{"product_id":"the-great-war-by-aleksander-galatica","title":"'The Great War' by Aleksander Galatica","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"715\"\u003eAleksandar Gatalica’s \u003cem data-start=\"300\" data-end=\"315\"\u003eThe Great War\u003c\/em\u003e is a large, many-voiced novel of the First World War, moving across fronts, countries, classes, professions, and the personal disasters faced by its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"715\"\u003eRather than narrowing the war into one tidy protagonist’s moral education, it follows a whole weather system of lives: soldiers, doctors, artists, generals, spies, civilians, the famous, the forgotten, and the half-crushed people history usually leaves in the margin. It’s an ambitious, restless historical novel: documentary in texture, literary in structure, and full of strange, vivid detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"715\"\u003eA strong pick for readers interested in European fiction, war writing, fragmented history, and novels that treat catastrophe not as a single event, but as something that enters music, families, bodies, politics, and the century after it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1108\" data-end=\"1250\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst English-language edition, Istros Books paperback, 2014. Very good overall, with light cover and edge wear. Clean internally.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964981211219,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-31T133330.599.png?v=1780198472","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-great-war-by-aleksander-galatica","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}