Under fire : the story of a squad /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935.
Uniform title:	Feu. English
Imprint:	[Auckland, N.Z.] : Floating Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (1 electronic document (573 pages))
Language:	English
Subject:	World War, 1914-1918 -- Trench warfare -- Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France -- Fiction. Military campaigns Intrenchments France Electronic books. Fiction.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11205779

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Other authors / contributors:	Wray, W. Fitzwater, 1867-1938.
ISBN:	9781775415589 1775415589
Notes:	Archived by the National Library of New Zealand. Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 18, 2011). Novel. Originally published in 1917 as: Le feu : journal d'une escouade. Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional.
Summary:	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.

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