Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514781296)

MONT BLANC, the Dent du Midi, and the Aiguille Verte look across at the bloodless faces that show above the blankets along the gallery of the sanatorium. This roofed-in gallery of rustic wood-work on the first floor of the palatial hospital is isolated in Space and overlooks the world. The blankets of fine wool-red, green, brown, or white-from which those wasted cheeks and shining eyes protrude are quite still. No sound comes from the long couches except when some one coughs, or that of the pages of a book turned over at long and regular intervals, or the undertone of question and quiet answer between neighbors, or now and again the crescendo disturbance of a daring crow, escaped to the balcony from those flocks that seem threaded across the immense transparency like chaplets of black pearls.

Author: Henri Barbusse
ISBN-10: 1514781298
ISBN-13: 9781514781296
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2015
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.22d