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"Ils ne passeront pas" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Armageddon, edited by David Drake & Billie Sue Mosiman, Baen 1998; and republished in Counting Up, Counting Down, Del Rey, 2002. The story begins as a conventional historical piece set at the Battle of Verdun. However, the story takes a fantastic twist as the seven trumpets prophesied in the Book of Revelation sound, and the events foretold begin to take place there on the battlefield. But, both sides have become so numbed to the horror of war, that neither quite realizes the events they are witnessing.

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rdf:type	Short Story
rdfs:label	Ils ne passeront pas
rdfs:comment	"Ils ne passeront pas" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Armageddon, edited by David Drake & Billie Sue Mosiman, Baen 1998; and republished in Counting Up, Counting Down, Del Rey, 2002. The story begins as a conventional historical piece set at the Battle of Verdun. However, the story takes a fantastic twist as the seven trumpets prophesied in the Book of Revelation sound, and the events foretold begin to take place there on the battlefield. But, both sides have become so numbed to the horror of war, that neither quite realizes the events they are witnessing.
dcterms:subject	Works Set in the 1910s Counting Up, Counting Down Short Stories Fantasy Short Stories First Published in an Anthology World War I 1998 Works Works Set in France Ils ne passeront pas
Collected	Counting Up, Counting Down
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pub date	1998(xsd:integer)
First Appearance	Armageddon
Genre	Historical Fantasy
ImageSize	180(xsd:integer)
Author	Harry Turtledove
Illustrator	David Mattingly
Publisher	Baen
abstract	"Ils ne passeront pas" is a short story by Harry Turtledove, published in Armageddon, edited by David Drake & Billie Sue Mosiman, Baen 1998; and republished in Counting Up, Counting Down, Del Rey, 2002. The story begins as a conventional historical piece set at the Battle of Verdun. However, the story takes a fantastic twist as the seven trumpets prophesied in the Book of Revelation sound, and the events foretold begin to take place there on the battlefield. But, both sides have become so numbed to the horror of war, that neither quite realizes the events they are witnessing. The title of story translated into English as "They shall not pass," the French rallying cry at Verdun. The theme of the story is articulated by the main protagonist, French soldier Pierre Barres: "what even from the last days could be worse than that which soldiers endured" at Verdun?

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