Under Fire - Henri Barbusse a lonely woman’s charity is

a lonely woman’s charity is rewarded with home-invasion

this is an extraordinary portrayal of what it means to say goodbye

Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children

spills over into brutality

Under Fire - Henri Barbusse a lonely woman’s charity isUnder Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, and the arrival of their rations, a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in hospital is all they can hope for. Based directly on Henri Barbusse's experiences of the trenches, Under Fire is the most famous French novel of the First World