Under Fire - Henri Barbusse Karel Capek takes us on

Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden

and then plunges into the cold waters of the Grand Canal

Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children

Chiyo belongs to one of Japan's wealthiest families

a lonely woman’s charity is rewarded with home-invasion

Under Fire - Henri Barbusse Karel Capek takes us onUnder Fire follows the fortune of a French battalion during the First World War. For this group of ordinary men, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply a matter of survival, and the arrival of their rations, a glimpse of a pretty girl or a brief reprieve in hospital is all they can hope for. Based directly on Henri Barbusse's experiences of the trenches, Under Fire is the most famous French novel of the First World