Books: Face of War: Guilt

AN END TO GLORY (154 pp.)—Pierre-Henri Simon—Harper ($3).

This is a novel only because French Author Pierre-Henri Simon chooses to call it one. Actually, it is an antiwar tract and one of the most eloquent in recent years. It is the author's bitter J'accuse, telling all Frenchmen and the world that France, first in Indo-China and now in Algeria, has given its soldiers ignoble roles in shameful wars. Says the hero's friend: "You can't say that war's our industry, for it nearly always costs us more than we get out of it; but it's our luxury and our passion."

These thoughts, with all...