The following excerpt is the epigraph from all quiet on the western front. an epigraph is a sentence or short paragraph that prefaces a book. read the excerpt and then answer the questions. 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. part a what do you think is the main point of the excerpt?