Verdun (Lost Treasures)
by Jules Romains
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Author: Jules RomainsTranslator: Gerard Hopkins
Edition: Paperback
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-01
ISBN: 1853753580
Number of pages: 500
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
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Book Review: A novel without any other like it
Summary: 5 Stars
First I think this novel should be read together with its preceding volume (see "Verdun, the Prelude + the Battle) to be fully appreciated. No other novel conveys an sensation of what it was like to be a soldier in that war. "The Prelude" is very interesting if you want to understand the bigger picture and the shared responsibilities for the war: although a Frenchman, Jules Romains did not engage in any propaganda whatsoever and showed the Germans were not the only bad guys in 1914. This is not a novel based on a plot, in fact the only plot to speak of is the war itself with its slow inexorable advance towards a nominal victory for one side, but a defeat for Europe as a whole. If all you want is a good story, don't read this book. The characters are very real and you feel identifying with them and their sufferings and frustrations all the time. You sympathize with the men and their shattered dreams, their longings for family and girlfriends, their anger at callous higher officers and at profiteers who had contrived to stay behind the lines and be out of harm's way.
These two novels (The Prelude + Verdun) are part of a series of 27 (!!) volumes by Jules Romains entitled "The Men of Good Will". I don't know whether they are still available in English but if you can read French go for them and you will get hooked!
Summary of Verdun (Lost Treasures)
Of the fearful battles that scarred the last century, Verdun, 1916, in which more than half a million Frenchmen and Germans died or were wounded, stands as one of the most tragic and futile. Jules Romains' novel brings the cataclysmic clash vividly to life, whether in the trenches, under the terrifying artillery bombardments, or in the headquarters of the general staff. First published in 1937, and unavailable for many years, this is an epic masterpiece of war literatureContemporary Books
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