Paths of Glory

by Humphrey Cobb

Overview

"Paths of Glory", written in 1935, takes place in the French army during World War I. An exhausted regiment is charged with the task of seizing an impregnable ger stronghold. The mission fails, with fifty percent casualties, enraging the egomaniac general who promised victory to his superiors; three soldiers, as division representatives, are subsequently court-martialled and executed for "cowardice”.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783956762697
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	12/27/2015
Series:	The World At War , #413
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	486 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Humphrey Cobb (1899–1944) was born in Siena, Italy, on September 5, 1899, to Alice Littell Cobb, a physician, and Arthur Murray Cobb, an artist. He attended boarding school in England during his childhood. Cobb was kicked out of an American high school and he never returned to graduate. At seventeen he decided to enlist in the Canadian army. After serving in the army for three years during World War I, he returned to the United States to work by turns in the stock trade, the merchant marines, publishing, advertising, and the Office of War Information (precursor of the OSS, the CIA predecessor) writing overseas propaganda. During his lifetime he wrote Paths of Glory (1935) and None But the Brave (1938), and was the lead screenwriter on the movie San Quentin (1937).

James H. Meredith, a retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel, is the introducer of the Penguin Classics editions of Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb and Bombs Away by John Steinbeck.

David Simon is the creator of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, and the author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood. 

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2013
Cobb fought with the Canadian army in the war and penned this antiwar classic in 1935. Stanley Kubrick's film, below, is now more famous than the novel on which it was based.

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