Folio Plus Classique: Feu (Series #A34279) (Paperback)

from john257hopper

This is a very unusual First World War novel, in that it was written while the war was still going on, by a participant in it, the French novelist Henri Barbusse. Published in 1916 in his native France, it was translated into English and published here the following year. The translation (and no ...

from arubabookwoman

Read 11/11 This book, which is included on the 1001 list, is one of the most influential of all war novels. It contains powerful and graphic descriptions of war's horror, insanity, and, sometimes, boredom and drudgery. The descriptions of life in the trenches, and the saturation shelling that res...

from aliciamay

This novel is based on the author's own experience of World War I and is a detailed and often mundane account of the ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion. These men have been thrown together from all over France and just want to survive the war in order to make it back home. Highlights to t...

from marcLeroux84

I found it to be a hard book to get through, but it is as vivid a depiction of life in the trenches as you can find. He accurately depicts the difference in perspectives that people had, depending to their proximity to the front. For anyone who is interested in life in the trenches during the Gre...

from ursula

Semi-autobiographical and written from the notes Barbusse took while he was fighting in World War I, Under Fire is a boots-on-the-ground view of the war. And as even a glancing knowledge of war, and this war in particular, will tell you: it's not pretty. That doesn't mean that the writing can't b...