{"product_id":"book-gu13","title":"Where Stands a Wingèd Sentry","description":"Margaret Kennedy was an acclaimed novelist and playwright best-known for \u003ci\u003eThe Constant Nymph\u003c\/i\u003e. In this autobiographical account, taken from her war diaries, she conveys the tension, frustration, and bewilderment of the progression of the war, and the terror of knowing that the worst is to come, but not yet knowing what the worst will be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnglish bravery, confusion, stubbornness, and dark humor provide the positive, more hopeful side of her experiences, in which she and her children move from Surrey to Cornwall, to sit out the war amidst a quietly efficient Home Guard and the most scandalous rumors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Most people knew in their hearts that the lid had been taken off hell, and that what had been done in Guernica would one day be done in London, Paris and Berlin.\" Margaret Kennedy's prophetic words, written about the pre-war mood in Europe, give the tone of this riveting 1941 wartime memoir: it is Mrs. Miniver with the gloves off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere Stands A Wingèd Sentry\u003c\/i\u003e, the title comes from a seventeenth-century poem by Henry Vaughan, was only published in the USA in 1942, and was never published in the UK, until now.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49356672926000,"sku":"BDgu13","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49356673188144,"sku":"ZEgu13","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49356673253680,"sku":"ZMgu13","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/gu13-Square-cover.jpg?v=1780203254","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gu13","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}