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Under Fire (Paperback)
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Under Fire (Paperback)
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List price R375
Loot Price R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
You Save R57 (15%)
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Under Fire (1916) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Written from notes
taken while Barbusse was serving in the First World War, the novel
was quickly recognized as a powerful tale of perseverance and
comradery in the face of unspeakable suffering. Intended to promote
the cause of pacifism, Under Fire is deeply critical of the rich
and powerful men whose inability to live peacefully leads time and
again to the sacrifice of countless human lives. "Each country
whose frontiers are consumed by carnage is seen tearing from its
heart ever more warriors of full blood and force. One's eyes follow
the flow of these living tributaries to the River of Death. To
north and south and west afar there are battles on every side. Turn
where you will, there is war in every corner of that vastness."
Even from a distance, war is hell on earth, but it is not something
that can be described in the abstract, if it can be described at
all. Such a luxury-available only to the leaders who declare war's
beginning and end-is not afforded to those are sent to fight.
Following a squad of French volunteers on the Western front, Henri
Barbusse provides a realistically brutal vision of death and
survival that refuses to glorify the loss of a single life. As a
soldier-turned-pacifist, Barbusse brings his reader as close as
possible to the trenches and fields of battle in order to dispel
the myths that continue to justify and obscure the deaths of the
poor and powerless. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henri Barbusse's
Under Fire is a classic work of French literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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