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Under Fire

By: Penguin Publishing

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Last Stocked on 5/19/2015

Product Info

Title
Under Fire
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Henri Barbusse
Publish Year
2004
Pages
320
Dimensions
5x8x.5"
NKG Part #
2147474668
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Reminiscent of classics like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Under Fire (originally published in French as La Feu) vividly evokes life in the trenches - the mud, stench, and monotony of waiting while constantly fearing for one's life in an infernal and seemingly eternal battlefield.