Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the … enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.
“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review
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I read this book in high school and it has stayed with me. I highly recommend it.
Historical Fiction about the First World War. A true classic.
A classic novel of the base realities of war. It’s still relevant and ever will be.
excellent historical fiction
A classic. A look at the toll combat takes.
Interesting details about WW1 from the perspective of young German soldiers fighting near the end of the war
War ain’t glamorous. Why won’t our enemies ever learn? We Americans don’t really want to kill them, but we will if we have to!
Riveting from the very first page. A straightforward description of the emotional impact of WWI on a young man.
A gritty and realistic view of war, and humanity during it. Just think twice about wearing someone’s boots.
A classic that everyone should read
The definitive book on ww 1. Read it.
loved it.
Great read.
A classic that’s worth the read.
I Liked this book very much!
A true classic.
My favorite war novel. War sucks and this book exposes it.
This classic historical novel of WWI shows war in all it’s human cost.
On the centennial anniversary of the war to end all wars, one soldiers observation of the futility of war as he watches with despair while it kills his friends, his will and eventual everything meaningful to him.
Liked it in the sixties when I was busy resisting the war in Vietnam. Even better now at the 100th anniversary of “the War To End All Wars.” Wars are a rich mans game for profit, played out by the pawns of peonage. When the young man realizes he’ll never be able to go home, he dies days short of the armistice, on a day written up in the field as “All Quiet on the Western Front.”