Under Fire (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Brown, Gordon; Barbusse, Henri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486836061 ISBN 13: 9780486836065

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc, 2019

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Reseña del editor:

Among the earliest realistic depictions of trench warfare, this novel is based on author Henri Barbusse's World War I combat experiences. The journal-like anecdotes portray daily life amid a squad of French volunteers after their country's invasion by Germany. The soldiers are workers, farmers, and tradesmen from different regions of France. They emerge as individuals, with families, good traits and bad, hopes, and fears. Their tedious days in fetid trenches are punctuated by terrifying battles and the threats of poison gas, artillery bombardment, sniper attacks, and machine-gun fire.Under Fire received French literature's prestigious Prix Goncourt for fiction in 1916 and drew both acclaim and criticism for its harsh realism. A century later, it remains a compelling and psychologically revealing work that exposes the horror, the loss, and the incomprehensible nature of war, even to its participants. Barbusse's wartime ordeals led to his lifelong pacifism, and his novel ranks among the first and most insightful indictments of imperialist warfare.

Biografía del autor:

Poet, novelist, and journalist Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) enlisted in the French army in 1914 at the age of 41. His novel Le Feu: journal d'une escouade (Under Fire: The Story of a Squad)received French literature's prestigious Prix Goncourt for fiction in 1916 and drew both acclaim and criticism for its harsh realism. Barbusse's wartime experiences drew him toward pacifism and communism, and after the war he joined the French Communist Party, traveled to Russia, and wrote a biography of Stalin.Translator William Fitzwater Wray (c.1870-1938) was an English journalist who specialized in reporting on cycling.

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• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0486836061
• ISBN 13: 9780486836065
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288