{"product_id":"paths-of-glory-9781427206039","title":"Paths of Glory","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them  their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus  Isaac Newton  Florence Nightingale  Thomas Edison  Nancy Astor  Charles Lindbergh  Amy Johnson  Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrongtheir unparalleled success has made their stories into legend. But what if one man had such a dream  and once hed achieved it  there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition? Jeffrey Archers new novel  Paths of Glory  is the story of such a manGeorge Mallory. Born in 1886  he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After the war  he married  had three children  and would have spent the rest of his life as a schoolteacher  but for his love of mountain climbing. Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest  because it is there. On his third try in 1924  at age thirty-seven  he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999  and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner  Andrew Irvine  ever reached the summit. In fact  not until youve turned the last page of Archers extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to that list of legends  while another name would have to be removed. Paths of Glory is truly a triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931057586229,"sku":"ByrdShop_1427206031","price":88.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781427206039.jpg?v=1794211662","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/paths-of-glory-9781427206039","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}