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Summary. Under Fire takes a look at World War I in a thematic way. Initially, it brings out a picture of elderly men observing the war beginning from on high, without a true care in the world...
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The narrator of Henri Barbusse's 1916 novel of World War I...
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Under Fire lets students delve into some of the richest (and to some extent still obscure) historiographical terrain. It is very much about combatants, but also has a good deal to convey about gender, violence, life under occupation, class, race, what it means to be a man and a Frenchman and a soldier witnessing the conflict.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) is a 1916 war novel written by French novelist Henri Barbusse. Even though the story is purely fictional, it is in fact...
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.
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The Under Fire Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.
The Under Fire Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes.
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The primary theme of Under Fire is the hardships that war inflicts on the men who serve in the military. The novel takes place during World War I and is a fictionalized version...
