All Quiet on the Western Front
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In 1914 Paul Bäumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story.A few years after it was published in 1929 the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarques novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for telling it like it was for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.Remarque has an extraordinary power of describing the appalling tension of being holed up in a dugout under heavy bombardment. the animal instinct to kill or be killed which takes over during hand-to-hand combat. He also has an eye for the grimly the consignment of coffins Paul and his friends pass as they make their way up the line for a new offensive. the young soldiers joyfully tuckin
Author:
Erich Maria Remarque
Cover:
Hardcover
Language:
ENG
Number of pages:
296
Publisher:
Everyman
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