Books by Gabriel Chevallier
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review 1: Gut wrenching and powerful, this was a compelling read. Chevallier beautifully articulates the coming of age of an entire generation in the meat grinder of the Western Front. Unsparing in detail, I found myself wincing at every shellfire exchange in preparation for the aftermath ...
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review 1: This is not really a novel, it is a memoir. But that makes it a much better book. It follows the wartime experience of a young man who enlists, along with hundreds of thousands of other young Frenchmen when war breaks out and what happens to him throughout the next four years. ...