I have long wanted to read this book which we have not spoken ill in 2004 on the occasion of the film (which I have not seen).
This is a good opportunity to get back into the 1914 war on a subject about which little, voluntary mutilation to leave the front. But it goes much further, because there is also the horror of life in the trenches.
After the war, Mathilde heroin, whose fiancé was officially killed in the Somme, trying to understand what happened to him and four men whose fates are tied, all five are being injured hand . There were declared "died for France", but it's looking lean testimony on the case she tries to understand.
Mathilde's character is endearing, and his research is all the more difficult it is invalid and does not. Fortunately his father and wealthy, and the path France led by a family servant.
There are a lot of emotions because these five men had lives, wives, children ...
