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Converted by millions of readers, generation after generation, into the great anti-war classic, All Quiet on the Front is a work of brutal denunciation where Remarque reflects part of his experiences as a combatant in the First World War. With pure realism and closeness, Paul... Read Full Overview

Im Westen nichts Neues erschien als Vorabdruck ab dem 10. November 1928 in der Vossischen Zeitung, in Buchform beim Propyl en Verlag am 29. Januar 1929. Innerhalb von elf Wochen erreichte es nach Verlagsangaben eine Auflage von 450.000 Exemplaren. Es wurde noch im selben Jahr... Read Full Overview

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. . .  

V romane Na Zapadnom fronte bez peremen, odnom iz samyh harakternyh proizvedenij literatury poterjannogo pokolenija, Remark izobrazil frontovye budni, sohranivshie soldatam lish' jelementarnye formy solidarnosti, splachivajushhej ih pered licom smerti.

Set in the throes of The Great War's terrifying trenches, All Quiet on the Western Front casts the reader in the shoes of the Patriotic soldier Paul B umer. His na ve allusions of war's nobility and sense of adventure are demolished in the face of indifferent industrial warfare... Read Full Overview