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Three French Writers and the Great WarStudies in the Rise of Communism and Fascism\nAuthor(s): Frank Field\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521082785, 978-0521082785\nSynopsis\nThe impact of the First World War on European society and the rise of Communism and Fascism are important subjects that concern all students of recent history. The object\nof this book is to study these themes through the careers of three French writers: Henri Barbusse, Drieu la Rochelle and Georges Bernanos. Each of these writers served in the war and was subsequently attracted towards Communism or Fascism. Barbusse first achieved fame through his anti-war novel Le Feu, but in the years after 1918 he made a new career for himself as a rallying point for Communist sympathizers amongst the French intellectuals. After becoming one of the most intelligent and sophisticated advocates of Fascism in the 1930s, Drieu la Rochel.