Unmissable. 166

After some very successful thrillers Pierre Lemaitre operates a wide turn and gives us a novel about the post-war 14/18. The story begins on the decision of the Lieutenant of Aulnay-Pradelle to lead his men to a last fight, despite the certainty of a very close armistice. Three survivors at this butchery: Aulnay-Pradelle and two men and Edward Albert Maillard Péricourt who, despite his injuries, save his comrade. Revenues to civilian life must admit that France is more grateful to her dead towards its alive, wounded, shattered by this terrible war. A bastard and two heroes that are the basis of this well-documented novel and incredibly well written. The author, a true humanist, takes the opportunity to denounce all hypocrisy and unspoken about the war, great provider of industrial progress.
Pierre Lemaitre considering a large fresco from 1913 to 2013 when, according to his will, each new novel opens on a secondary character in the previous novel. I welcome already.