Erich Maria Remarque

One by one the boys begin to fall… In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can never have imagined. . . .Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made All Quiet on the Western Front a classic, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human spirit, manifested through characters who must find the inner resources to live in a world they did not make, but must endure.

It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic – a German doctor and refugee living in Paris – has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians. Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on – all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he’s given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times…

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front.   With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.   It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives.

Трагический, полный драматизма роман о великой силе любви – любви, которая перед лицом смертельной опасности сокрушает любые преграды. Тянется ночь в Лиссабоне, ждут своего часа эмигранты, чудом бежавшие из нацистской Германии, чтобы отправится в Америку на корабле. В эту ночь человек, потерявший последнее, что осталось от его жизни, в осколки разбитой войной, отчаянно исповедуется перед случайным встречным. Ночь, когда за бутылкой дешевого вина раскрывается кровоточащая душа – и рассказывается рвущая душу история о страсти, нежности и жестокости, о странной верности и странной отваге…

«Soy joven, tengo veinte años, pero no conozco de la vida más que la desesperación, el miedo, la muerte y el tránsito de una existencia llena de la más absurda superficialidad a una abismo de dolor. Veo a los pueblos lanzarse unos contra otros y matarse sin rechistar, ignorantes, enloquecidos, dóciles, inocentes. Veo a los más ilustres cerebros del mundo inventar armas y frases para hacer posible todo eso durante más tiempo y con mayor rendimiento». Este clásico de la literatura antimilitarista es un relato inclemente y veraz de la vida cotidiana de un soldado durante la primera guerra mundial.

Eine bittersüße Liebesgeschichte vor dem Hintergrund des Todes: Die Romanze zwischen der jungen Lilian und dem waghalsigen Rennfahrer Clerfayt ist nur von kurzer Dauer. Die lungenkranke Frau will zwischen Paris, Venedig und Rom einmal noch das Glück erfahren, jeden Tag auskosten, als sei es ihr letzter...