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All Quiet on the Western Front

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By (author): Erich Maria Remarque

Translated by: Brian Murdoch

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 Remarque's 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 fear: 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 comic: 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 tucking into double rations when half their company are unexpectedly wiped out.
Remarque's elegy for a sacrificed generation is all the more devastating for the laconic prose in which his teenaged veteran narrates shocking experiences which for him have become the stuff of daily life. Paul cannot imagine a life after the war and can no longer relate to his family when he returns home on leave. Only the camaraderie of his diminishing circle of friends has any meaning for him. He comes especially to depend on an older comrade, Stanislaus Katczinsky, and one of the most poignant moments in the book is when he carries the wounded Kat on his back under fire to the field dressing station, with starkly tragic outcome.
The saddest and most compelling war story ever written.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 430g
  • Dimensions: 134 x 211mm
  • Publication Date: 03 Sep 2018
  • Publisher: Everyman
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781841593869

About Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque was a German author and veteran of the First World War. He was born 1898 in Osnabrück Germany. At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the German army. During his service he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg right arm and neck. Following the war he worked as a primary school teacher and later as a librarian a journalist and a technical writer. Among Remarques published novels were All Quiet on the Western Front The Road Back Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph. His works were publicly burned by the Nazi German government and in 1947 he and his first wife became naturalised citizens of the United States. Four years earlier his sister had been executed at the behest of Hitlers Peoples Court. Remarque adapted the book Ten Days to Die about Hitlers final days as a screenplay and he also wrote for the stage. His last novel was The Night in Lisbon published in 1962. During his lifetime Remarque married twice and had love affairs with the actresses Hedy Lamarr Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.

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