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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.

--erich maria remarque

fourteen days ago we had to go up and relieve the front line. it was fairly quiet in our sector, so the quartermaster who remained in the rear had req-uisitioned the usual quantity of rations and provided for the full company of 150 men. but on the last day an astonishing number of english heavies opened up on us with high-explosive, drumming ceaselessly on our position, so that we suffered severely and came back only eighty strong.

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