Under Fire: The Story of a Squad

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Probably the most influential of all war novels, Henri Barbusse’s ‘Story of a Squad’ was once first printed in 1916 and sold 200,000 copies in French. Under Fire (at the side of Remarque’s All Quiet) remains Probably the most powerful descriptions of the madness and horror of war. What is most compelling in Barbusse’s novel is the writer’s use of language in describing “the tortured earth” all through a passage in which French troops are being shelled. The writer introduces readers to a score of characters who experience the unspeakable conditions under which they’re forced to live on and fight. One hesitates to use the term beautiful in referring to descriptions of carnage and agony but there’s no other way to convey the power and, yes, poetry of his words. His language is clear–graphic–the scenes are enormously vivid. A great book written with sympathy towards those sufferers who are asked to take part in the insanity of war.

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