All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

by Erich Maria Remarque

Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0449213943
  • ISBN13 9780449213940
  • Publish Date 12 March 1987 (first published 29 January 1929)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 1 May 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Atlantic Books