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The Great Swindle (original title: Au revoir là-haut) is a 2013 novel by Pierre Lemaitre set in France in the aftermath of the First World War.
Oct 4, 2015 · “The Great Swindle,” which won the Prix Goncourt in 2013 and has important things to say about the dark, chaotic aftermath of World War I in France, is a big, swirling tale that itself...
Pierre Lemaitre provides an excoriating account of the disasters that affected the ordinary soldier in The Great War, and then the injustices of post-war French society, when veterans were very often ignored and mistreated.
Sep 22, 2015 · The battlefields of World War I give birth to two different, but related, schemes to swindle grieving French families out of their money. It’s November 1918, and word is that an armistice is nigh: French soldiers on the battlefield are keenly aware that they may be going home.
- Pierre Lemaitre
Sep 6, 2016 · In this sorrowful, heart-searching novel, the interwoven lives of these three men create a tapestry of the human condition as seen through the lens of war, revealing brutality and compassion, heroism and cowardice, in equal measure. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
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- Pierre Lemaitre
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Aug 21, 2013 · The Great Swindle is a 2013 novel by Pierre Lemaitre, set in France in the aftermath of the First World War. It was published in French in 2013. It won several notable awards, such as the Prix Goncourt, and was adapted into a 2017 film of the same name.
Sep 22, 2015 · The year is 1918, the war on the Western Front all but over. An ambitious officer, Lieutenant Henry D'Aulnay-Pradelle, sends two soldiers over the top and then surreptitiously shoots them in the back to incite his men to attack the German lines.
