This is 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. Based directly on Henri Barbusse's experiences of the trenches, Under Fire...
This is a searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War. 'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in ...
Henri Barbusse: Das Feuer. Tagebuch einer Korporalschaft Vorabdruck in der Zeitschrift L' uvre; Buchausgabe bei Edition Flammarion in Paris Ende November 1916. Deutsche Ausgabe: Max Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1918. Ubersetzt von Leo von Meyenburg. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2014. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt."
Henri Barbusse: Das Feuer. Tagebuch einer Korporalschaft Vorabdruck in der Zeitschrift L' uvre; Buchausgabe bei Edition Flammarion in Paris Ende Novem...
