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It belongs to that tense-looking but really very loose type of writing, which has been popularized by many second-raters — Barbusse, Céline and so forth.

Of course, French and German combatants also brought out accounts of their analogous experiences, notably Erich Maria Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Henri Barbusse’s anecdotal but grim “Under Fire” and Ernst Jünger’s Homeric paean to martial valor, “Storm of Steel.”

That text incorporates excerpts from “All Quiet on the Western Front” and from another war novel, Henri Barbusse’s “Under Fire,” alongside soldiers’ letters and eyewitness testimonies, in English, Flemish, French, and German.

After a brief account of the outbreak of war by the French novelist Henri Barbusse, “No Man’s Land” immediately moves to Mulk Raj Anand’s “Marseille,” about Indian sepoys under the command of the British crown, and captures the colonial soldiers’ utter confusion as to where they are and what they are fighting for.

“There is ‘Le Feu’ by a Frenchman, Barbusse.