On the Western Front without change

The fate of Paul Boymer, his front -line friends, his peers excited people around the world. And did not go into the shadow, even when the generation that passed the hell of the First World War has ended its earthly existence.
We offer the reader the new edition of the novel “On the Western Front without Changes”, the text of which is meaningful from the point of view of today"s day and is equipped with comments . People who read the novel in 1929 knew the realities of the world in which the heroes of the writer live, fight and die. Now these details have faded under the pressure of paintings of later wars, and primarily the Second World War. In addition, Remarque was not going to describe in detail the nuances of military life. He set the task to draw an expressive picture of hell, a meat grinder that grinded a whole generation. But the modern reader, in our opinion, needs to know the purely particular front -line life and - the main ups and downs of the First World War. The very war, which, as some historians believe, began to destroy European civilization, launched the process, which possibly became irreversible