{"product_id":"no-ordinary-joes-paperback","title":"No Ordinary Joes - Paperback Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eOn April 23, 1943, the seventy-man crew of the USS \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"border-style: none; color: #000000;\"\u003eGrenadier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;\"\u003e scrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1391195086421_1101\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-style: none; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1391195086421_1110\" style=\"border-style: none; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"\u003eNo Ordinary Joes\u003c\/em\u003e tells the harrowing story of four of the \u003cem style=\"border-style: none; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"\u003eGrenadier\u003c\/em\u003e’s crew: Bob Palmer; Chuck Vervalin; Tim McCoy; and Gordy Cox. All were enlistees from families that struggled through the Great Depression. The lure of service and duty to country were not their primary motivations—they were more compelled by the promise of a job that provided “three hots and a cot” and a steady paycheck. On the day they were captured, all four were still teenagers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1391195086421_1105\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-style: none; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; color: #000000;\"\u003eTogether, the men faced unimaginable brutality at the hands of their captors in a prisoner of war camp. With no training in how to respond in the face of relentless interrogations and with less than a cup of rice per day for sustenance, each man created his own strategy for survival. When the liberation finally came, all four anticipated a triumphant homecoming to waiting families, loved ones, and wives, but instead were forced to find a new kind of strength as they struggled to resume their lives in a world that had given them up for dead, and with the aftershocks of an experience that haunted and colored the rest of their days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp id=\"yui_3_8_1_1_1391195086421_1112\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border-style: none; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; color: #000000;\"\u003eAuthor Larry Colton brings the lives of these four “ordinary” heroes into brilliant focus. Theirs is a story of tragedy and courage, romance and war, loss and endurance, failure and redemption. With a scope both panoramic and disarmingly intimate, \u003cem style=\"border-style: none; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\"\u003eNo Ordinary Joes\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful look at the atrocities of war, the reality of its aftermath, and the restorative power of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"pc-book-specs\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\/Distributor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\/Random House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780307888457\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin\/Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67856908255477,"sku":"RAN216","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/2198\/0149\/files\/RAN216_104.jpg?v=1793864083","url":"https:\/\/uhahm3-rm.myshopify.com\/products\/no-ordinary-joes-paperback","provider":"Paradise Cay Publications, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}