Under Fire (Barbusse novel)

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
	First edition (French)
Author	Henri Barbusse
Original title	Le Feu: journal d'une escouade
Translator	Robin Buss (2003)
Language	French
Genre	War Novel
Publisher	Ernest Flammarion
Publication date	December 1916
Publication place	France
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	304 pp
ISBN	1-4264-1576-1

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. It was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1916. The novel is described as one of the earliest works of the Lost Generation movement^[1] or as the work which started it;^[2] the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway^[3] and Erich Maria Remarque.^[4]

Barbusse wrote Le feu while he was a serving soldier. He claimed to have taken notes for the novel while still in the trenches; after being injured and reassigned from the front, he wrote and published the novel while working at the War Office in 1916.^[5]

^ The European Powers in the First World War. p. 432
^ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Doughboys_on_the_Great_War/rSCpEAAAQBAJ (p. 41)
^ War in Ernest Hemingway's a Farewell to Arms. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. 14 March 2014. ISBN 978-0-7377-7069-8.
^ Tate, Trudi (2009). "The First World War: British Writing". In McLoughlin, Catherine Mary (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–174. ISBN 978-0-521-89568-2.
^ Barbusse, Henri (2003) [1916]. Under Fire. Penguin Classics (in French). Winter, Jay (introduction). New York: Penguin Books.

[1] The European Powers in the First World War. p. 432

[2] ttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Doughboys_on_the_Great_War/rSCpEAAAQBAJ (p. 41)

[hem-3] War in Ernest Hemingway's a Farewell to Arms. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. 14 March 2014. ISBN 978-0-7377-7069-8.

[Tate-4] Tate, Trudi (2009). "The First World War: British Writing". In McLoughlin, Catherine Mary (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–174. ISBN 978-0-521-89568-2.

[Barbusse-5] Barbusse, Henri (2003) [1916]. Under Fire. Penguin Classics (in French). Winter, Jay (introduction). New York: Penguin Books.

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Under Fire (Barbusse novel)

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