A review by dyingst
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier

4.0

I should go back to rating/reviewing books

This one was good, I think it'd be an interesting counterpoint to Junger's Storm of Steel. Weird that the back cover description is almost wholly inaccurate, makes it seem like the book will be about Dartemont's adjustment to the war behind the front lines: "After he is wounded, he returns from the front to discover a world where no one knows or wants to know any of this. Both the public and the authorities go on talking about heroes—and sending more men to their graves. But Jean refuses to keep silent. He will speak the forbidden word. He will tell them about fear." But this aspect of the story takes up only a chapter or so. Odd.