Under Fire
$24.97
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
28 May 2014
Summary
A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War
‘Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down’
Under Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, and the arrival of their rations, a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief repr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141393438 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141393432 |
| Author: | Henri Barbusse |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2014 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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One of the most influential of all war novels
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About The Author
Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusse was born in 1873 in Asni res-sur-Seine, France. He fought as a volunteer in the First World War, which inspired his masterpiece Under Fire (1916). The book was criticised for its harsh naturalism and hatred for militarism, but won the Prix Goncourt. A noted pacifist and later a communist, Barbusse’s socialist novel Clarte (1920) lent its name to a short-lived internationalist movement. His other works include The Knife Between the Teeth (1921) and Le Judas de Jesus (1927). Henri Barbusse died in the Soviet Union in 1935, of pneumonia. He was writing a second biography of Stalin at the time.
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