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| Writer | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Category | Novel |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Im Westen nichts Neues |
| Publish Date | 1929 |
| Pages | 280 |
| File Size | 1 MB |
| File Type |
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war.
All Quiet on the Western Front PDF – Erich Maria Remarque
We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace. Each man has another mess-tin full for the evening, and, what is more, there is a double ration of sausage and bread. That puts a man in fine trim. We have not had such luck as this for a long time. All Quiet on the Western Front PDF
The cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat; he beckons with his ladle to everyone that passes, and spoons him out a great dollop. He does not see how he can empty his stew-pot in time for coffee. Tjaden and Müller have produced two washbasins and had them filled up to the brim as a reserve. In Tjaden, this is voracity; in Müller, it is foresight.
Where Tjaden puts it all is a mystery, for he is and always will be as thin as a rake. What’s more important still is the issue of a double ration of smokes. Ten cigars, twenty cigarettes, and two quids of chew per man; now that is decent. I have exchanged my chewing tobacco with Katczinsky for his cigarettes, which means I have forty altogether.
All Quiet on the Western Front PDF – Erich Maria Remarque
That’s enough for a day. It is true we have no right to this windfall. The Prussian is not so generous. We have only a miscalculation to thank for it. Fourteen days ago, we had to go up and relieve the front line. It was fairly quiet in our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had requisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of one hundred and fifty men.
But on the last day, an astonishing number of English heavies opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong. Last night we moved back and settled down to get a good sleep for once: Katczinsky is right when he says it would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little more sleep. All Quiet on the Western Front PDF
In the line we have had next to none, and fourteen days is a long time at one stretch. It was noon before the first of us crawled out of our quarters. Half an hour later, every man had his mess-tin, and we gathered at the cookhouse, which smelt greasy and nourishing.
All Quiet on the Western Front PDF – Erich Maria Remarque
At the head of the queue, of course, were the hungriest–little Albert Kropp, the clearest thinker among us and therefore only a lance-corporal; Müller, who still carries his school textbooks with him, dreams of examinations, and during a bombardment mutters propositions in physics; Leer, who wears a full beard and has a preference for the girls from officers’ brothels. All Quiet on the Western Front PDF
He swears that they are obliged by an army order to wear silk chemises and to bathe before entertaining guests of the rank of captain and upwards. And as the fourth, myself, Paul Baumer. And four are nineteen years of age, and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war.
All Quiet on the Western Front PDF
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