Under fire : The story of a squad / Henri Barbusse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbusse, Henri, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2012.

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Summary:

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu: journal d'une escouade ) was one of the first novels about World War I. Published at the end of 1916, it was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. The novel, written primarily as the episodic journal entries of an unknown narrator, follows a French squad in the brutal face of the German Invasion. Compared to the many war stories before it, Under Fire is marked by a gritty realism that squares firmly with the death and squalor of trench warfare.

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ISBN:

9781620110928

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