Timely and essential, Hear Our Defeats is a novel about the battles that define us, the battles lost, won, and those still being fought.
A French intelligence officer working on US army drug trafficking in Afghanistan spends a night with an Iraqi archaeologist saving ancient artefacts from ISIS, with their story punctuated with stories from across history defined by loss or failure featuring Ulysses S. Grant, Haile Selassie, Hannibal and more. Gaude won the Prix Goncourt in 2004 for "The Son Of The Scorta".
