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Edition 18 (1943)

Literary awardFrench LiteratureNovelNonfiction

Winners

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André Soubiran あんどれ すびらん Winner

A memoir based on the author’s experience as a military doctor attached to a tank unit during the early phase of World War II. Through a personal eye-witness account, it conveys the confusion of the French retreat and the strain of the front line in vivid detail.

A record of retreat seen through the eyes of a tank-unit doctor.

310 pages
warmemoirmilitary medicineFrench retreatdocumentary writing