Under Fire : The Story of a Squad (Premium Ebook)

Henri Barbusse spent 22 months in the trench warfare during World War I. He gives us, from the inside, an instructive testimony of what was this horrible war. But it is also a major literary work that shows us that in some cases, the poetry of words is the only way to describe reality. Sample : RUDELY awakened in the dark, I open my eyes: "What? What's up?" "Your turn on guard—it's two o'clock in the morning," says Corporal Bertrand at the opening into the hole where I am prostrate on the floor. I hear him without seeing him. "I'm coming," I growl, and shake myself, and yawn in the little sepulchral shelter. I stretch my arms, and my hands touch the soft and cold clay. Then I cleave the ... More