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About Under Fire
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad is a 1916 novel by Henri Barbusse that was one of the first novels about World War I to be published. Although it is fiction, the book 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 or as the work which started it; the novel had a major impact on the later writers of the movement, namely on Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque.
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