War without frills

Gabriel Chavallier clearly written there a true story. It shows us all the atrocities of war, fear that grips bellies every time he takes up the front line, all combined to try to delay even just a few minutes time to face the enemy , other men like him in reality. It is uncompromising for officers who are at the back and is careful not to pass first. When they can not do otherwise, they, like other fear in the eyes and body. He speaks wounds, corpses rot, smells ... In short, it is the war of 14-18 in his grim everyday reality he tells us. I have great difficulty in retrospect, and I'm probably not the only one to accept this absurd war where one does not hesitate to sacrifice, as in a camp in the other, thousands (up to to achieve several million) soldiers daily to "hold" position, where, besides the dead themselves, they plunged millions of families into grief and détreese and misery. This novel only adds water to my mill. Read and ponder before deciding the merits of a war ...