{"id":8117137899814,"title":"The Great Madness","handle":"the-great-madness","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #297e32;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor Avigdor Hameiri \u0026amp; Peter C. 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Drawing on his wartime experiences, Hameiri’s work quickly became a bestseller. This new translation with annotations and extensive introduction presents an intensely personal perspective of warfare on the First world War’s Eastern Front. Within its pages Hameiri writes of the spectrum of emotions experienced by soldiers in combat. In so doing, he vividly reminds all readers of the trauma and tragedies of warriors through the ages, regardless of rank, ethnicity or nationality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated and edited by Peter C. Appelbaum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIntroduction by Dan Hecht\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"vc_empty_space\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"vc_empty_space_inner\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wpb_wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAvigdor Hameiri (Feuerstein, 1890-1970) was a Hebrew poet (the first Poet Laureate of Israel), novelist, editor and translator. In 1916 he was captured by the Russians while serving as an Austro-Hungarian officer on the Russian Front, imprisoned in Siberia, and released after the 1917 October Revolution. He immigrated to Palestine in 1921, joined the staff of the Daily Haaretz, and edited several journals. Hameiri published many novels, short stories and poetry collections, giving literary expression to his war experiences, the Third Aliyah and the Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the translator \u0026amp; editor:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter C. Appelbaum, MD, PhD, is an author, editor and award-winning translator of numerous books on Jewish Military history and literature. Among them are \u003cem\u003eHell on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOf Human Carnage\u003c\/em\u003e by Avigdor Hameiri, and \u003cem\u003eBroken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier Poets of the Great War\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-27T11:30:10-04:00","created_at":"2023-02-01T15:27:20-05:00","vendor":"Stone Tower Press","type":"","tags":["military history","World War I"],"price":2400,"price_min":2400,"price_max":2400,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":44350146511142,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781733892469","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Great Madness","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2400,"weight":726,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781733892469","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-front.png?v=1675283240","\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-back-100x100.png?v=1675283240"],"featured_image":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-front.png?v=1675283240","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":32829890527526,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.772,"height":1024,"width":791,"src":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-front.png?v=1675283240"},"aspect_ratio":0.772,"height":1024,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-front.png?v=1675283240","width":791},{"alt":null,"id":32829890560294,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":100,"width":100,"src":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-back-100x100.png?v=1675283240"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":100,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/jplbooks.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/GreatMadness-back-100x100.png?v=1675283240","width":100}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/5689\/files\/Stone_Tower_100x100.png?v=1546616956\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #297e32;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor Avigdor Hameiri \u0026amp; Peter C. 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Drawing on his wartime experiences, Hameiri’s work quickly became a bestseller. This new translation with annotations and extensive introduction presents an intensely personal perspective of warfare on the First world War’s Eastern Front. Within its pages Hameiri writes of the spectrum of emotions experienced by soldiers in combat. In so doing, he vividly reminds all readers of the trauma and tragedies of warriors through the ages, regardless of rank, ethnicity or nationality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranslated and edited by Peter C. 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