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Under Fire; The Story of a Squad

By Henri Barbusse

2019-01-30 01:10:03

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 isolat ... Read more
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. Less

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File size281.351 KB
Print pages192
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2011-04-27
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1541373273
Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, France May 17, 1873 Died: August 30, 1935 Websitehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse Genre: Literature & Fiction Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was a French nove...

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