{"product_id":"the-great-swindle-paris-between-the-wars","title":"The Great Swindle","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 Péricourt, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pierre Lemaitre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000259010607,"sku":"9781848665798","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781848665798.jpg?v=1772368063","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/the-great-swindle-paris-between-the-wars","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}