Paths of glory
Humphrey Cobb · 2010
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Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, *Paths of Glory* explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering ordinary men to risk their lives in an impossible cause. A chilling portrait of injustice, this novel offers insight into the tragedies of war in any age.
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Series
- Penguin classics
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 2
- ISBN
- 9780143106111
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