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Edited by Charles Aldarondo Aldarondo@yahoo.com
Under Fire
The Story of a Squad
By Henri Barbusse
(1874-1935)
Translated by Fitzwater Wray
To the memory of the comrades who fell by my side
at Crouy and on Hill 119
January, May, and September, 1915
Contents
The Vision
In the Earth
The Return
Volpatte and Fouillade
Sanctuary
Habits
Entraining
On Leave
The Anger of Volpatte
Argoval
The Dog
The Doorway
The Big Words
Of Burdens
The Egg
An Idyll
The Sap
A Box of Matches
Bombardment
Under Fire
The Refuge
Going About
The Fatigue-Party
The Dawn
I
The Vision
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.
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