false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170350851m/48176.jpg 48176 16 Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has inflicted on itself. For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, lightened only by the arrival of their rations or a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in the hospital. Reminiscent of classics like Hemingway's <I>A Farewell to Arms</I> and Remarque's <I>All Quiet on the Western Front</I>, <I>Under Fire</I> (originally published in French as <I>La Feu</I>) vividly evokes life in the trenches&#151;the mud, stench, and monotony of waiting while constantly fearing for one's life in an infernal and seemingly eternal battlefield. 47145 1955 Under Fire (Penguin Classics) total:46|5:11|4:25|3:8|2:2|1:0| 46 183 156 8 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 07 14:51:43 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 14:52:04 -0700 2008
This book has an interesting history of being dragged from fiction to non-fiction and back again. It was originally published in serial form in 1916, making it one of the onl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 13 08:31:21 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 08:31:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:07:39 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 19:10:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 30 17:58:04 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 18:00:24 -0800 2009
Read for my WWI Literature class.]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 17:59:23 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 18:01:58 -0800 2008 All Quiet on the Western Front-- it works instead as an interesting hist...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 15 09:19:51 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 10:54:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 06:37:32 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 13 11:04:37 -0800 2008
There was a bit of controversy around this book. Barbusse supposedly embellished some of the stuff in it. I think the accusations are probably bullshit. Either way, this needs to be required reading on all American high school lists.

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