Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (Le Feu)
by Barbusse, Henri and Wray, Fitzwater (trans.)
- Used
- Condition
- very good: age wear to boards, spine moderately sunned, sticker on inside pastedown, name on FFEP, toning on endpapers, text cle/no DJ
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
E.P. Dutton, 1917. hardcover. very good: age wear to boards, spine moderately sunned, sticker on inside pastedown, name on FFEP, toning on endpapers, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. Duodecimo 358pp. Fifth printing October 1917. One of the first WWI novels to be published, based on Barbusse's experiences on the Western Front, it follows a single squad of French infantrymen on the Western Front after the German invasion. Credited as one of the earliest examples of "Lost Generation" literature, significant influence on later authors like Hemingway and Remarque. #00177.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 340
- Title
- Under Fire
- Author
- Barbusse, Henri and Wray, Fitzwater (trans.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good: age wear to boards, spine moderately sunned, sticker on inside pastedown, name on FFEP, toning on endpapers, text cle
- Jacket Condition
- no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Date Published
- 1917
- Keywords
- wwi, war, fiction, literature
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Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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- Sunned
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