Under Fire Av Henri Barbusse

<b>A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War</b><br><br><i>''Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt one another down''<br></i> <br><i>Under Fire </i>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.<br><br>Based directly on Henri Barbusse''s experiences of the trenches, <i>Under Fire</i> is the most famous French novel of the First World War, starkly evoking the mud, stench and monotony of an eternal battlefield. It is also a powerful critique of inequality between ranks, the incomprehension of those who have not experienced battle, and of war itself.