На Западном фронте без перемен

Govori͡a o Pervoĭ mirovoĭ voĭne, vsegda vspominai͡ut odno proizvedenie Ėrikha Marii Remarka. "Na Zapadnom fronte bez peremen". Ėto rasskaz o nemet͡skikh malʹchishkakh, kotorye pod deĭstviem patrioticheskoĭ propagandy idut na voĭnu, ne znai͡a o tom, chto vperedi ikh zhdet ne slava geroev, a invalidnostʹ i smertʹ… Kazhdyĭ denʹ voĭny unosit zhizni chʹikh-to ott͡sov, synoveĭ, a gazety tem vremenem besstrastno soobshchai͡ut: "na Zapadnom fronte bez peremen"… Ėta kniga - ne obvinenie, ne ispovedʹ. Ėto popytka rasskazatʹ o pokolenii, kotoroe pogubila voĭna, o tekh, kto stal ee zhertvoĭ, dazhe esli sumel spastisʹ ot snari͡adov i ukrytʹsi͡a ot puli.

When talking about the First World War, one always remembers a work by Erich Maria Remarque. "There is no change on the Western Front." This is a story about German boys who, under the influence of patriotic propaganda, go to war, not knowing that ahead of them lies not the glory of heroes, but disability and death… Every day of the war takes the lives of someone's fathers, sons, and meanwhile the newspapers dispassionately report: "there is no change on the Western Front"… This book is not an accusation, not a confession. This is an attempt to tell about the generation that was destroyed by the war, about those who became its victims, even if they managed to escape from shells and hide from a bullet.