Prix Renaudot (Prix Théophraste-Renaudot) ておふらすと=るのどしょう
Edition 18 (1943)
Literary awardFrench LiteratureNovelNonfiction
Winners
1 peopleA 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