Jenny Powell’s Reviews > All Quiet on the Western Front > Status Update

Alongside our camp is the big Russian prison camp. It is separated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. They seem nervous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards - they look like meek, scolded, St. Bernard dogs.

a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets & bands, like a bullfight.Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives his country wins.That would be much simpler & more just than this arrangement where the wrong people do the fighting