Download or read book Under Fire written by Henri Barbusse and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows a squad of French volunteer soldiers on the front in France after the German invasion. The book opens and ends with broad visions shared by multiple characters. The anecdotes are episodic in nature, each with an individual chapter title. In contrast to many war novels which came before it, Under Fire describes war in gritty and brutal realism.