Military

About a hundred people with motley weapons wander along the roads, following at random after their regiment. Soon, the detachment loses its connection with him and falls into the chaotic whirlpool of the army, forced to advance or retreat in the heat of the battle. Disoriented, exhausted, remaining without leadership and supply, soldiers in an endless march-string gradually lose their human appearance, drink, play, looted. All this ends with the fact that they hack the regimental box office. The commander, being unable to withstand collective debauchery, indulges in along with everyone, but in the end comes to life. He is too late to realize the entire measure of responsibility. The non-commissioned officer is discouraged! .. He understands what punishment awaits him if he ever has to answer the highest ranks. Faded, desperate, he throws his soldiers to the most dangerous sections of hostilities, with a drooping head leads people, horses, vans ahead, to the thick of the battles, where everyone is dying ... So Louis-Ferdinand Selin described his unexplored novel about the First World War Milina. What happened to the disgraced writer, read in this book