All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.
"The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

• ISBN10: 0316739928
• ISBN13: 9780316739924
• Publish Date: 30 January 1929 (first published 29 January 1929)
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 16 September 2005
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 248
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial— I believe we are lost.”

Only 175 pages, and yet you can’t quite come out of it the same. It’s one of those haunting books to be carried around on the inside of you.