All Quiet on the Western Front

From the dust jacket: "Here at last is the great War novel for which the world has been waiting. Herr Remarque speaks for a whole generation - that generation of all the combatant nations whose life was destroyed in its springtime - even if it escaped actual death. In this book we see the life of the common soldier in all its phases - in the trenches, behind the lines, in hospital, at home on leave among civilians. It is a book of terrible experiences, at times crude because of the necessity of telling the absolute truth, at times rising to an almost incredible degree of tragedy, and at times relieved by humorous incidents and examples of rough good-comradeship. It will shock the supersensitive by its outspokenness; it will leave no reader unmoved."