All Quiet on the Western Front / На Западном фронте без перемен. Книга для чтения на английском языке

This book is intended neither as an accusation nor as a confession, but simply as an attempt to give an account of1 a generation that was destroyed by the war – even those of it who survived the shelling.

Close behind us are our friends.

that will keep us going. We haven’t had a stroke of luck 3

even able to fill up a mess-tin for later

In the end Katczinsky shouted to him, ‘Come on, mate, open up your soup kitchen1! Anyone can see the beans are done!’

wouldn’t mind about the meal, but I can only give out the other rations for eighty,’ insisted Ginger

Muller is a bit bossy and tactless

We were even able to fill up a mess-tin for later, every one of us, and there are double rations of sausage and bread as well – that

bully beef 2  and beans, we’ve had enough