Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

by Henri Barbusse, Fitzwater Wray

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775415589
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	06/01/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	379 KB

About the Author

Henri Barbusse was born in 1873 and the novel UNDER FIRE is one of the most famous works of French literature of the 20th century. It expresses the disillusionment with war that led him to pacifism and then communism. His socialist novel CLARTE lentits name to a short-lived internationalist movement. He died in the Soviet Union in 1935.