All Quiet on the Western Front-西线无战事

作者：Erich Maria Remarque

书名：All Quiet on the Western Front《西线无战事》

中文简介：《西线无战事》（德语：Im Westen nichts Neues）是德国作家埃里希·玛利亚·雷马克描述第一次世界大战的反战小说。因内容带有强烈的反战意识，曾于1930年代德国纳粹党执政时查禁。
 
英文简介：Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . .  if only he can come out of the war alive.

“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review