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June 1940 was a summer of defeat for France's soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought, felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought, and tragic men like Mathieu, who had dedicated his life to finding personal freedom, now overwhelmed by remorse and bitterness, who must learn to kill. Iron in the Soul, the third volume of Satre's Roads to Freedom Trilogy, is a harrowing depiction of war and what it means to lose.