Status Updates From All Quiet on the Western Front

“And that is why they let us down so badly. […] We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs.”

Sie schätzen aufn Pott gehen sehr, das freut mich

Wow, just wow. This should be required reading for everyone.

Needed a book that better fits the mood of living under a cloud of hazardous wildfire smoke