Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #822148 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
With a great pile of packets in front of him like a peddler's pack, the harassed quartermaster was calling out the post in the middle of a regular mob of soldiers, who were all plying their elbows and trampling on one another's feet. It was just at our door, between the communal washhouse - so tiny that there would hardly have been room for three washerwomen under its sloping shelter roof - and the notary's house, which wore a red scarf of virginia creeper crosswise on its front. We had clambered up on the stone seat and were listening attentively. "Maurice Duclou, first section." "Killed at Courcy," cried somebody. "Are you sure?" "Yes, his mates saw him fall in front of the church...He'd caught a bullet. Now, . . well, I wasn't there myself." On the corner of the envelope the quartermaster wrote in pencil, "Killed." "Edouard Marquette." "He must be killed too," said a voice.

Customer Reviews

Wooden Crosses - review
This book is extremely badly translated, with awkward English and, even more embarrassingly, terrible punctuation. I'd advise potential readers to find a different translation if possible, or of course to read the book in French, its original language. This translation is a long way from even attempting to do justice to Dorgeles' masterpiece, and I would certainly not recommend it to anyone.