Great Swindle

Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille.

October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d''Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more.

And so is set in motion a series of devastati...