Used book – Le Soleil des morts, BERNARD CLAVEL

Born of an unknown father, Charles Lambert was ten years old at the turn of the century. Raised by his grandmother on a farm in the Jura, he lived life to the rhythm of fieldwork and republican schooling. Young Charles would become an accountant. Driven by rage, he dreamed of fighting the Prussians, thieves of the lost provinces. Barely had he tasted love with Pauline Duchêne when he enlisted as a private soldier in an African battalion. Promoted to lieutenant during the Great War, he discovered the horror of the trenches. With the defeat of 1940, another battle began for Charles, against infamy and dishonor... With "Le soleil des morts," Bernard Clavel recounts the bloody and generous epic of a modest hero, his uncle Charles. And he reveals one of his deepest convictions: "I hate war, detest weapons, but the story of this old soldier haunted me until I decided to tell it."