{"product_id":"a-grim-awakening","title":"A Grim Awakening","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the First World War, Manx literature mainly focused on the island’s experience of wartime internment. John McCauley is a war writer in a category of his own; his wartime diary is unique in the Isle of Man. There has never previously been a publication of any Manx war memoir, not even during World War Two. This diary will be of considerable interest to Isle of Man residents and people interested in the First World War; for the unusual adventures it describes were, in a general sense, the common lot of the 8,261 Manx men who fought in the Great War. Readers of the diary will receive an initimate insight into the thoughts of a regular First World War soldier at the Western Front in France. John McCauley fought in the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Thiepval Ridge, the Somme and Devil’s Trench in Delville Wood. During 1916, John McCauley served with British forces protecting the Suez Canal. Now published.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ferry Publications Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53549724631379,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0881\/7714\/8243\/files\/AGrim.jpg?v=1776932278","url":"https:\/\/ferrypublications.co.uk\/products\/a-grim-awakening","provider":"Ferry Publications Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}