Under Fire. Henri Barbusse

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       Henri Barbusse

      Under Fire

      The Story of a Squad

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664650238

Table of Contents

       The Vision

       II

       In the Earth

       III

       The Return

       IV

       Volpatte and Fouillade

       V

       Sanctuary

       VI

       Habits

       VII

       Entraining

       VIII

       On Leave

       IX

       The Anger of Volpatte

       X

       Argoval

       XI

       The Dog

       XII

       The Doorway

       XIII

       The Big Words

       XIV

       Of Burdens

       XV

       The Egg

       XVI

       An Idyll

       XVII

       In the Sap

       XVIII

       A Box of Matches

       XIX

       Bombardment

       XX

       Under Fire

       XXI

       The Refuge

       XXII

       Going About

       XXIII

       The Fatigue-Party

       XXIV

       The Dawn

The Vision

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      MONT BLANC, the Dent du Midi, and the Aiguille Verte look across at the bloodless faces that show above the blankets along the gallery of the sanatorium. This roofed-in gallery of rustic wood-work on the first floor of the palatial hospital is isolated in Space and overlooks the world. The blankets of fine wool—red, green, brown, or white—from which those wasted cheeks and shining eyes protrude are quite still. No sound comes from the long couches except when some one coughs, or that of the pages of a book turned over at long and regular intervals, or the undertone of question and quiet answer between neighbors, or now and again the crescendo disturbance of a daring crow, escaped to the balcony from those flocks that seem threaded across the immense transparency like chaplets of black pearls.

      Silence is obligatory. Besides, the rich and high-placed who have come here from all the ends of the earth, smitten by the same evil, have lost the habit of talking. They have withdrawn into themselves, to think of their life and of their death.

      A servant appears in the balcony, dressed in white and walking softly. She brings newspapers and hands them about.

      "It's decided," says the first to unfold his paper. "War is declared."

      Expected