{"product_id":"the-balliols-9781448200894","title":"The Balliols","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alec Waugh\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the story of the Balliol family as they exist through the suffrage movement and the end of the Edwardian era to the Great War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Balliol children are subject to the effects of the war - the harsh discipline and the subsequent laxness, the breakup of family loyalties, the post-war cynicism and, in the youngest child, the ultimate trend back to a sounder pattern of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe action of this book, which is swift, continuous and dramatic, develops side by side with the plot of its theme that \"to build a sanctuary, you must destroy a sanctuary\"; that the destruction to which these thirty years have been witness was an inevitable and necessary part of progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVigorously pursuing the fortunes of an English family during the most turbulently shifting period in history, \u003ci\u003eThe Balliols\u003c\/i\u003e combines the feeling of Cavalcade with the powerful narrative flow of the Forsythe Saga.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086775410839,"sku":"9781448200894","price":2678.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781448200894.webp?v=1767266276","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-balliols-9781448200894","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}