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by Henri Barbusse (Author) "The Dent du Midi, the Aiguille Verte and Mont Blanc stare down at the bloodless faces emerging from under the blankets lined up along the..." (more)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Classic Books; Reprint edition (April 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0742663027
  • ISBN-13: 978-0742663022
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest - a classic., 10 May 2004
By M. J MUIR "J" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under Fire (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
This was a great book. I have read many, to try to understand and remember what my recent ancestors endured. This is one of the four definitive memoirs or autobiographical novels I have read on the subject. The others are All quiet, Storm of Steel and Her Privates We.

Storm of Steel, whilst having a certain melancholy, could not be described as anti-war! Her Privates We takles the position that warfare is sometimes necessary. All Quiet is famously anti-war. Under Fire is anti war, anti capitalist, anti class system, in some ways anarchic.

Barbusse was already a recognised author when he started this novel, and he wrote much of it whilst still in the Trenches. In my opinion, the characteristic trait of this novel are the lucid, visual descriptions of the battles and the field in which they occurred as a barren, consuming hell of mud, fire and death, and the men as having been reduced to barbarous troglodytes by the unending and pitiless misery of their existence.

Perhaps only a mind in which the scars of such an experience were still fresh could have penned such descriptive prose. The opening passage, in which men descend inexorably upon France from all over Europe to fight each other is shocking and moving.

The final chapters, in which the ordinary poilus find themselves philosophising (believably)over war, then mass hallucinate as an army of warmongers materialises from all corners of the horizon and pushes back the sky even more so. A stunning vision, which brought a lump to my throat.

Thyis book was out of print for years, and who's to say it will remain in print. Robin Buss's tranlation does the book great justice, so buy it whilst you can.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best?, 25 April 2008
By S. Hearnden (England) - See all my reviews
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If you have any interest in the Great War whatsoever, then this book is a must. The best way of describing it is 'Faction'(ie the book is a work of Fiction, based on Barbusses personal experiences of the war - written whilst the war was still raging!)
I would put this book way above All quiet, Storm of Steel and Her Privates We. The differences between the attitudes of the German infantry and the humble Poilu is great. (read Ernst Junger)
This book should be made compulsory for all students studying this subject.
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5.0 out of 5 stars under fire, 11 Jun 2009
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this is a good adjusted translation and a must reed. Written in 1917 it narates the horror of war in general and WW I in special.
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