- Fiction, war & military, Fiction, psychological, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, World War, 1939-1945
"It is the fall of 1939, and Lieutenant Grange and his men are living in a chalet above a concrete bunker deep in the Ardennes forest, charged with defending the French-Belgian border against the Germans in a war that seems unreal, distant, and unlikely.
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Contemplative, intimate, prestige and character-led.
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- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Julien Gracq, Richard Howard
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781681371399
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