224 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2005 by Vintage.
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their chauvinistic schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. Their disenchantment begins during the brutal basic training and then, as they board the train to the front, they see the terrible injuries suffered on the front line - their first glimpse of the reality of war.
Wer vorher kein Pazifist war, wird es hoffentlich nach der Lektüre von "Im Westen nichts Neues" sein.
I see why Hitler burned it. (27)
