Cesta zpátky - CDmp3 (Čte Pavel Batěk)

"The war rolled over us like a steamroller..." In response to the news from the Western Front, where calm was merely a ghostly prelude to dying, the great German humanist followed up with a lament for the youth whose determination to change the world was thwarted by World War I. Ernst Birkholz from the fallen Paul Bäumer's company returns home to civilian life with his friends at the end of 1918. They escaped the shrapnel, but they carry the trenches in their maimed hearts, and sometimes they can't even sit still in a chair from horror. It seems that peace is merely an extension of the itch they experienced in the combat line. There, they could rely on each other, whereas in the new German Republic, there is a shortage of food and work, their heroism no longer moves the nation, and they cannot force respect through violence. This remarkable initiation novel laments the politicians for the Calvary of those who are left with nothing but alienation: a state for which medicine at the time did not have the term "post-traumatic stress disorder." The surroundings are not with them, do not understand them – and so the veterans have their return to life purely in their own hands, as we are always alone in the hardest things. The loose continuation of the famous novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front' is among the most significant anti-war works by authors of the so-called lost generation. The film adaptation was already made in Hollywood in 1937.