Le Feu: Journal d’une Escouade
Le Feu: Journal d'une Escouade by
Henri Barbusse ISBN: 9781167914942
Published by Editions Payot on 2012
Pages: 380
Len's Summary: WWI centennial commemorative reissue of the winner of the 1916 Goncourt Prize, a novel of WWI which has become a classic; with an appendix containing the text of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et decorum est. Le Feu is French poilu slang for “the front” and is not to be literally translated as “the fire.” Escoude is an infantry squad.