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Tranchecaille
Chemin des Dames, 1917, l'offensive du général Nivelle tourne à l'hécatombe. Dans l'enfer des combats, un conseil de guerre s'apprête à juger le soldat Jonas, accusé d'avoir assassiné son lieutenant. Devant l'officier chargé de le défendre défilent, comme des fantômes, les témoins harassés d'un drame qui les dépasse. Coupable? Innocent? Jonas est-il un simulateur ou un esprit simple? Le capitaine Duparc n'a que quelques jours pour établir la vérité. Et découvrir qui est réellement celui que ses camarades ont surnommé Tranchecaille.
320 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 12, 2013
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June 16, 2014
A brilliant and clever novel, told from multiple perspectives and multiple chronologies. At its heart, it is the search for the truth--however futile that search might be and however little that truth might matter--of a murder in the French trenches, but it is a much bigger novel than that.
A soldier, nicknamed Tranchecaille, the most luckless man in his regiment, has been accused of the murder of his commanding officer. A captain has been told to defend him at a court martial. His corporal was a private detective before the war. The two of them gather evidence that takes them in strange directions, and builds a picture very different from the accusation made against Tranchecaille. But a colonel has decided what the judgment will be. A general requires examples to be made of some men. A critically wounded soldier cannot help but remember what he has done. A doctor tries to save lives, all the while teasing mercilessly the nun who works with him to save them. And some men cannot let the front go, even when they have left it behind.
A soldier, nicknamed Tranchecaille, the most luckless man in his regiment, has been accused of the murder of his commanding officer. A captain has been told to defend him at a court martial. His corporal was a private detective before the war. The two of them gather evidence that takes them in strange directions, and builds a picture very different from the accusation made against Tranchecaille. But a colonel has decided what the judgment will be. A general requires examples to be made of some men. A critically wounded soldier cannot help but remember what he has done. A doctor tries to save lives, all the while teasing mercilessly the nun who works with him to save them. And some men cannot let the front go, even when they have left it behind.
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