All Quiet on the Western Front
Автор:
Erich Maria RemarqueЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2025-01-01Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
62
Description
All Quiet on the Western Front has often been called one of the most powerful war novels ever written. Set in the latter half of World War I, the novel follows Paul Bäumer, a young German recruit, as he fights for his life in the trenches of the Western Front.
Paul is a schoolboy in a picturesque German village when World War I breaks out. Patriotic speeches at his school embolden him and his friends to volunteer for the German army. But their patriotism soon withers to a bleak, tortured, dehumanized agony as they struggle to survive the crushing horrors of endless artillery fire, trench warfare, tanks, gas, and hunger.
The novel follows Paul as he and his company endure some of the most brutal physical and mental...
