Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (French: Le Feu: journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse (December 1916), was one of the first novels about World War I to be published.

Although it is fiction, the novel was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front.

[5] The novel takes the form of journal-like anecdotes which the unnamed narrator claims to be writing to record his time in the war.

In 1929, Jean Norton Cru, who was commissioned to critique French literature of World War I, called Under Fire "a concoction of truth, half-truth, and total falsehood.

In 2003, Penguin Press published a new translation by Robin Buss with an introduction by the American historian Jay Winter.

[5] In Robert Graves' autobiography "Good-Bye to All That" he mentions that, during the war, British pacifists urged Siegfried Sassoon to write "something red-hot in the style of Barbusse's "Under Fire" but he couldn't do it.