The Hairy One
THE POILUSJoseph Delteil (translated by Jaques Le Clercq) Minion, Batch ($3). Author Delteil calls his book, pretentiously, an epic. It is not an epic but it is good writing about the War, the soldiers, the statesmen who gathered to invent peace. The chief interest, as the title hints, is in the poilu, the anonymous helter-skelter soldier who rode to the Marne in a taxi and saw a hundred thousand like himself make a hill near Verdun look like a mountain. "His rifle hangs over his backside, and his backbone...
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