All Quiet on the Western Front

The fate of Paul Bäumer, his front-line friends, and his peers moved people all over the world. And it did not fade into the shadows, even when the generation that had lived through the hell of the First World War ended its earthly existence. We offer the reading public a new edition of the novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", the text of which is understood from the point of view of today and supplied with commentary. People who read the novel in 1929 knew well the realities of the world in which the writer's heroes live, fight and die. Now these details have faded under the pressure of pictures of later wars, and first of all, the Second World War. In addition, Remarque did not intend to describe in detail the nuances of military life. He set the task of drawing an expressive picture of hell, a meat grinder that ground up an entire generation. But the modern reader, in our opinion, needs to know the specific details of front-line life and the main twists and turns of the First World War. The very war that some historians believe began to destroy European civilization set in motion a process that may now be irreversible.