New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1917. First American edition. 8vo. Original red cloth stamped in black, front hinge cracked; publisher's rare dust jacket, spotting, minor wear to extremities.

Under Fire was written while Barbusse was serving in the French Army during the First World War. He would later write that the novel was based on notes he took while serving on the Western Front and the story itself written while working at the War Office following an injury sustained in the trenches. It is one of the first novels about the Great War and one of few published while the war was still going on. Under Fire won the Prix Goncourt in 1916 and is considered to have been a major influence on the works of Ernest Hemingway and Erich Maria Remarque, whose own novel about the Great War, All Quiet on the Western Front, tells a similar tale to Barbusse's from a German perspective.