Published by Dead Reckoning
291 Wood RoadAnnapolis, MD 21402
Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, by arrangement with New York University.
© 2019 by Wayne Vansant
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Vansant, Wayne, adapter, artist. | Adaptation of (work): Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898–1970. Im Westen nichts Neues. English
Title: All quiet on the western front / Wayne Vansant.
Description: Annapolis, MD : Dead Reckoning, [2019] | “Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, by arrangement with New York University.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2018054988 (print) | LCCN 2018056026 (ebook) | ISBN 9781682474501 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781682474501 (ePub) | ISBN 9781682473337
(paperback) | ISBN 9781682474501 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Remarque, Erich Maria, 1898–1970. Im Westen nichts Neues.—Adaptations. | World War, 1914–1918—Comic books, strips, etc. |
Graphic novels. | BISAC: FICTION / War & Military. | GSAFD: War stories.
Classification: LCC PN6727.V38 (ebook) | LCC PN6727.V38 A79 2019 (print) | DDC 741.5/973—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018054988
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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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our gang formed the head of the queue before the cook-house. we were grow-ing impatient, for the cook paid no attention to us.
there are four of us, joined up from the same class, all nineteen years old...
say, ginger, open up the soup-kitchen. anyone can see the beans are done.
you mustall be here first.
weare allhere.
albert kropp,the clearest thinker among us, a lance corporal.
fredrich mu ̈ller, who still carries his school text books.
peter leer, who has a preference for the girls of the officers' brothel.
and the fourth, myself, paul bA ̈umer.
and there is our leader, stanislaus Katczinsky, who we call kat. shrewd, cunning and hard-bitten, forty years of age, with a face of the soil, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food, and soft jobs.
butwhere are the others?
they won’t befed by you today. they’re either in the dressing sta-tion or pushing up daisies.
we are here with our friends of the same age, tjaden, a lock-smith, the biggest eater of the company.
big haie westhus, a peat digger before the war.
detering, a peasant, who thinks of nothing but his farmyard and his wife.
but this won’t do! I have food for 150 men!
look kat!
they have har-riCot beans and sausage.
and bread and tobacco!
then we’ll have enough for a change.
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what a bean feast! that’s all for us! each man gets--wait a bit--yes, practically two issues!
that won’t do!
eighty men can’t have what is meant for a hundred and fifty.
you might be generous for once. you haven’t drawn food for eighty men. you’ve drawn it for the second company.
good! let’s have it then. we are the second company.
we began to jostle the fellow. no one felt kindly toward him, for it was his fault that the food often came up to the line too late and cold.
there would have been a dust-up if our company commander hadn't appeared and informed himself of the dispute.
the beans lookgood.
cooked with meat and fat.
bring me a full plate...
...serve out all the rations. we can do with them.
it doesn’t cost you anything! anyonewould think the quarter-master’s store belonged to you!
you be hanged!
yes, we did have heavy losses yesterday...
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today is wonderfully good. the mail has come, and almost every man has a few let-ters and papers. we stroll over to the meadow behind the billet.
on the right side of the meadow a large common latrine has been buiLt, a roofed and durable construction.
we want something better.
scattered about everywhere are separate, individual boxes for the same purpose. we move three together and sit down com-fortably. and it will be two hours before we get up again. kropp has cards and we play a game of skat.
anyone