John Berger
2) Pig earth
Author
Series
Into their labours trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Jean Dartemont, the hero of Gabriel Chevallier's autobiographical novel, enters what was not yet known as World War I in 1915, when it was just beginning to be clear that a war that all the combatants were initially confident would move swiftly to a conclusion was instead frozen murderously in place. After enduring the horrors of the trenches and the deadly leagues of no-man's-land stretching beyond them, Jean is wounded and hospitalized. Away from...
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