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Under Fire

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ISBN-10: 0143039040

ISBN-13: 9780143039044

Edition: 2004

Authors: Henri Barbusse, J. Winter, Robin Buss

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Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusses 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 Hemingways A Farewell to Armsand Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front, Under Fire(originally published in French as La Feu) vividly evokes life in the trenchesthe mud, stench, and monotony of waiting while constantly fearing for ones life in…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/31/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jeanne Winter (auch J. Winter) wurde 1989 in Herne geboren und ist examinierte Gesundheits- und Kinderkrankenpflegerin. Heute lebt und studiert sie in M�nster. Das Schreiben fasziniert sie bereits seit der Grundschulzeit.Auf Kindergeschichten, die aus zehn S�tzen bestanden, folgten Fan Fictions und wenig sp�ter auch die ersten Kurzgeschichten. Inspiriert von Mythologien und dem Fantasygenre schrieb sie ihren Deb�troman �Die G�tterj�ger - Aus dem Exil�.Einfach https://www.facebook.com/AutorinJeanneWinter folgen!

�mile Durkheim(18581917) founded the French school of sociology. His most famous works include The Division of Labor in Societyand The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. Robin Busss most recent translations for Penguin include Dumass The Black Tulip. Richard Sennettis the Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT and a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics.