All Quiet On The Western Front
The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time--with an Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix. "[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank."--The New York Times Book Review 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 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.
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Ok I’m not big on war stories, but this has a level of humanity that made it compelling to me. We are introduced too a quartet of friends who are 19 yr old and stationed at the front. Paul is our narrator, and we are provided a window onto life at the front. Descriptive and philosophical.
Beautiful and so sad. I don’t think I’ve ever read a war novel from the perspective of “the enemy” before though maybe something close to that about the Middle East. So brilliantly written, that I assume the translation is excellent.
I would suggest this book to anyone looking for a good read. I would categorize it as fine literature and not necessarily as a historical account of WW1.
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