All quiet on the western front

248 pages

English language

Published Jan. 24, 1958 by Little, Brown.

ISBN:
978-0-316-73992-4
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OCLC Number:
13378950

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4 stars (124 reviews)

The timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation. The touching story of four young German boys and their army life during World War I.

69 editions

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5 stars

"I soon found out this much: terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks, but it kills if a man thinks about it."

There's approximately eleventy bajillion other reviews that will probably summarize this book better than I ever could, so I won't bother with a summary.

What I will say is, in a sea of WWI/WWII fiction, this one rightfully stands head and shoulders above the rest. It captures the feeling of boys, fresh out of school, enlisting to do their country proud, being sent to the front lines, and learning what World War I was all about. Reading about their forced transition from boy to man in a very short time was heartbreaking, and there's scene after scene that sticks in my head even after being done with the book.

This book isn't for everyone. It's graphic, pulls no punches, and is heavy on detail. …

Review of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Good lordt. What a book. I’m some ways it’s hard to believe this is 95 years old. In other ways it’s easy to believe. Nothing had changed. Humans are humans. War is horrible. Aside from the setting or technology this book could’ve been written about prehistoric tribal warfare or the seemingly inevitable WWIII.

Not sure why I haven’t heard more about this other than “there’s a movie adaptation”. This should be required reading in school.

Review of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

4 1/2 stars
Yeah, I liked this. I can see why this is a classic and why it has withstood the test of time. I'm sure it was controversial back in the day because it was kind of gritty and risque'. I'm not one for war stories so the fact that I read this and was engaged until the end is a testament to the authors ability to tell it "like it is" without sugar-coating or sentimentality which would render it corny. And we all know I have an adversion to corny.

So yeah, force yourself out of your comfort zone occasionally and read something you aren't exactly drawn towards. There is a lot of classic literature out there and it's almost always worthy of your reading time. Go for it.

Review of 'All Quiet On The Western Front' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

‘We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out.’

All Quiet on the Western Front is rightly considered a masterpiece, and often assigned reading in schools. I randomly decided to pick this one up, as it had been on my to-read list for a while. But it wasn’t entirely ‘random’ either, considering the fact that Europe is currently facing one of the most severe wars in at least my own lifetime. While reading this book, you become quite familiar with Paul Bäumer and his friends and comrades; but I see little difference between these young men and the ones fighting in Ukraine. As it was a century ago, it is today. It took me several weeks to read this short book, but it is worth consuming slowly and carefully, like handling a piece of …

Review of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Somehow I missed reading this in high school; wasn't on the curriculum. But, since I've been reading a lot of WWI and WWII stories in the past year, I picked this up in a sale. It's well worth reading and especially now, a century after the events in the book. Paul Bäumer is a German soldier, barely 18 and sent to war with his classmates. The book is a factual description of life in the trenches, the hardships that most of us cannot even imagine, the friendships, the sacrifices, and the tragedy.

I didn't actually know much about the book other than that it was about WWI and a classic, and I wasn't paying much attention to character and location names at first. As the author's name looks vaguely French, it actually took me quite a few chapters to realize that it was being told from the German perspective rather …

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Subjects

  • World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction
  • Germany -- Juvenile fiction

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