{"_id":"69d090f3e834a2dc5642d148","title":"The War Prayer","author":"Mark Twain","code":"the-war-prayer","publish_year":1905,"words":1297,"image":"writing.jpg","image_alt":"A pen writing. Graphite filter","genres":["war","literary"],"description":"After war begins the streets are joyous with celebration and pride and the people gather in a church to pray for their soldiers’ victory. But a man comes on stage to give a different prayer.","blurb":"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead.","unique_cover":"An old man talking","cover_source":"The War Prayer","cover_link":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005546554&seq=30","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}