Built in class 15, the narrator tells in first person hell squads, disorganization lines, solidarity front, hell of attacks by officers never punished for these offensives that rotate the killing of soldiers French menus chopped by machine-gun nests and shells that the "look". The description of the offensive is terrible beauty. Hell on earth in blood, mud and corpses.
(Good) injury, recovery will give a respite to the narrator extended by his assignment on the front of calmer Vosges then this is Fismes, the Chemin des Dames, the murderous offensives Nivelle and Mangin. A terrifying massacre. 80,000 men died in one day mage. The style is powerful, visual. it is with him in the cold, the mud and especially FEAR, this repulsion of the body as he said so.
Read this novel anti-militarist not by ideology but by suffering, the experience in the trenches of the cattle sent to slaughter. When we think of current Franco-German relations, it all seems like a terrible waste.
Suicide of Europe.
