All Quiet on the Western Front. On the Way Back. A Time to Live and a Time to Die

The collection includes the famous novels by Remarque "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1929), "On the Way Back" (1931) - works that tell about the tragedy of a generation whose youth coincided with the beginning of one of the most terrible wars in human history - World War I. They were once young men learning to live and think. They were ripped from their familiar lives and thrown into the bloody mud of war. Now they are cannon fodder. Soldiers. And they are learning - to survive and not to think. Thousands and thousands will forever lie on the fields of World War I.... Thousands and thousands who returned will regret that they did not lie down with the dead... The novel "A Time to Live and a Time to Die" (1954) tells about a German soldier of World War II, Ernst Gräber, who, for the first time after two years of war, goes on leave for three weeks. Three invaluable weeks - a time to live!.. He leaves, only to find himself back in the war - in a city where endless bombings... In a city where residents fear to breathe once more, where no one can ever trust their thoughts and feelings, otherwise - execution... But these three weeks, like a whole life, in which Ernst becomes a completely different person, finding love, happiness, and a brief peace... Only to return to the front and face another time - a time to die...