Fear: A Novel of World War I

Fear: A Novel of World War IDescription by Gabriel Chevallier Paperback Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted war to end all wars seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he is wounded, he

with his sewed on Blue & Gray division patch from 1918

War posters celebrated

and an influx of refugees were everyday realities

which is not only an authentic account of conditions at the Front

Scholars believe

The Bolsheviks

Sculptor Käthe Kollwitz

when the town falls after all

the book highlights the fundamental dialectic between the effects of the First World War in disturbing family life and in releasing social and political forces

detailing how the soldiers coped with the many new forms of warfare

often characterized as the American Caesar

much less answered