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20%OFFHenri Barbusse - Under Fire - 9780141393438 - 9780141393438
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Under Fire

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Description for Under Fire Paperback. Follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. This title presents a critique of inequality between ranks, the incomprehension of those who have not experienced battle, and of war itself. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 20. Weight in Grams: 262.

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 reprieve in hospital is all they can hope for.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141393438
SKU
9780141393438
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99-1

About Henri Barbusse
Henri Barbusses was born in 1873 in Asnières-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 Clarté (1920) lent its name to a ... Read more

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