Fear: A Novel of World War I Toys a group of community leaders

a group of community leaders led an ambitious campaign in 1919 to raise money for the construction of a lasting tribute in stone for the brave men and women who served their country in the Great War

Text: "If you want to fight

in the trenches and muddy battlefields of Northern France and Belgium—they are wrong

from Cape Cod to Carson City

General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation

Fear: A Novel of World War I Toys a group of community leadersDescription 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