All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

Paperback, 295 pages

English language

Published July 29, 1987 by Fawcett Crest.

ISBN:: 978-0-449-21394-0
OCLC Number:: 194628552

(11 reviews)

All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'Nothing New in the West') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, The Road Back (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. All Quiet on the Western Front sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print.In 1930, the book was adapted as an Academy Award-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone. It was adapted again in 1979 …

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73pctGeek reviewed All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Dulce et Decorum est

3 stars

A powerful anti-war novel in which Remarque immerses the reader in the meat-grinder of WW1, and all the horrors of trench warfare, both hideous and banal.

We read how the war happens to the narrator, Paul. How he cannot escape its clutches, how he & his comrades become so very important to each other. How the impossible to understand, must be experienced to be understood.

Throughout, Remarque makes damned sure the reader comprehends the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, and then the sickening realisation of what the title means.

Taru Luojola reviewed Länsirintamalta ei mitään uutta by Erich Maria Remarque

Sota kaikessa kauheudessaan

5 stars

Modernin sotakirjallisuuden klassikko, eikä syyttä. Sodan raadollisuutta ja järjettömyyttä seurataan kaunistelematta tavallisen rivisotilaan silmin. Hän on koko lukioluokkansa tavoin lähtenyt opettajansa innostamana vapaaehtoisena sotaan sen varhaisvaiheessa, mutta jo ensimmäinen vuosi rintamalla on tehnyt koulupojista vanhoja miehiä, ja toverit kuolevat rinnalta yksi kerrallaan. Kirja, jota toisaalta lukee kevyesti mutta joka on pohjimmiltaan todella raskasta luettavaa.