A soldier stumbles through a nightmare of severed limbs and endless artillery fire. Wounded and sent home, he finds the world outside the trenches equally insane—a place where the 'red laugh' of war echoes in every face, every conversation. This is not a story of heroism or glory. It is a raw, hallucinatory descent into the psychological ruin of combat, told in fragmented, fevered visions. Leonid Andreyev’s classic anti-war novel, now retold in vivid, natural English, remains as urgent and unsettling as ever. Experience the horror that inspired generations of war literature. Part of Timeless Classics.
