The Officers' Ward (French, La chambre des officiers), is a novel by Marc Dugain, published in 1998 (1999 in English).

[2] Adrien is wounded on a simple reconnaissance mission on the first day of French involvement in the Great War.

He is hit by a stray shell, which kills his fellow officers and his horse, and destroys the centre of Adrien's face.

Devastated and permanently disfigured, he spends the rest of the war in a hospital, in a maxillofacial unit, with a small group of others who have similar injuries—including a woman, Marguerite, who has been wounded while nursing at the Western Front.

The novel won eighteen literary prizes[3] and was made into a film in 2001, directed by François Dupeyron and starring Eric Caravaca as the central character.