All quiet on the Western Front

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
Translated from the German by A. W. WHEEN
LONDON
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
IM WESTEN NICHTS NEUES first published in Germany January 1929 First published in England March 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted April 1929 Reprinted May 1929 Reprinted May 1929 Reprinted May 1929 Reprinted June 1929 Reprinted June 1929 Completing 90,000
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. CHISWICK PRESS; CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND GRIGGS (PRINTERS), LTD. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
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
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. The cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat; he beckons with his ladle to every one 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 wash-basins 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. That's enough for a day.