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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000K06OI2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fawcett Books; First Printing edition (January 1, 1958)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
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Erich Maria Remarque (22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) is about German soldiers in the First World War, which was also made into an Oscar-winning movie. His book made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burned many of his works.
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Van T. Roberts

War Is Hell

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2023

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Erich Maria Remarque’s tour de force World War I masterpiece hasn’t lost it bite since I read it the first time over 40 ago as a college freshman. “All Quiet on the Western Front” concerns a group of classmates who sign up to fight for the Kaiser. Remarque confines himself primarily to the blood & guts battlefield and rarely provides scenes involving our protagonist’s superior officers. We live in the trenches and learn life lessons about combats, especially the do’s and Don’t’s. You can learn a lot about close-quarters combat in this tragic tale. Never stick a bayonet in the enemies’ rib because you may not be able to yank it back out. Indeed, it is far better to wield a shovel as if it were a scythe and take heads off if in a frontal assault. The heroes and his comrades are young, naive, and foolish. There is the equivalent of what you would expect from a “Porky’s” comedy. The young lads swim a River with nothing but their boots and foodstuffs and rendezvous with some French maidens. Later, we are treated to a scene where our heroes endeavor to cook a sumptuous meal until the enemy sites their cook smoke and commence a round of shelling. The confrontation with the French soldier in a crater is stunning! The Netflix movie duplicated this scene, but wanders off the compelling narrative for scenes on a truce train and a Prussian officer’s determination to redeem himself at the last moment. All the scenes in the novel related to field surgeons is horrific in terms of irony. Surviving on the front was bad enough, but then one had to survive the ministrations of hack happy surgeons in a butcher shop. I failed to mention that Remarque never crosses no man’s land to furnish similar accounts from either French or British soldiers. A great book, a timeless classic, and a ode to the frontline warriors!

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Kirk Alter

A book every sentient being should read

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Yeah, yeah, yeah…you say that you know that war is “bad.” You don’t know anything unless you have personally experienced it, or you have read Remarque’s amazing book. This is the story of the “everyman,” the fodder for the cannons of the elite. What a moving, extraordinarily well-written story of seven classmates who faced the banality and horror.

This is the sort of book that is (or used to be) assigned in high school…that no one read, or if they did perhaps romanticized. Adults should read this book. “Decision-makers” should read this book. Taxpayers should read this book…and then perhaps some might stop glamorizing the military industrial complex.

Bravo to a brilliant writer.

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A difficult way to grow

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I am not very fond of reading war books, but somebody recommended this to me and I decided to give it a try. It is the story of 4 teenage soldiers who volunteer to fight in the First World War, thinking it would be very exciting. They soon find out what life in the trenches is really like. It is devastating to see how these soldiers change their life perspective in a short period of life and how these experiences will affect their whole life. On the other hand, their comradeship is really strong as they are the only ones who really understand each other. A wonderful book.

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MMK

One if not the best books on WW1

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Read this after watching the Netflix movie after hearing about it on the Oscars. It goes through practically every aspect of the war from recruitment to the hospitals to the battlefield to the trenches to the time off. Describing camaraderie amongst squads of soldiers, the enemy, the filth, the bloodshed, weapons used. The effects on the minds of the soldiers. I remember a little a bit about WW1 in freshman history class, but more was always focused on WW2. Great book to read if you want to understand the senselessness and horror of The First World War.

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Kai Lee

Contains a thoughtful and sensible proposal about the declaration of war

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This book is labeled as a novel but is actually the reflections of the author’s experience during the years as a young volunteer in the German Army during the First World War. The author is represented by the central fictional character, Paul Baumer. The book begins with Paul comforting a young boyhood friend and classmate, Franz Kemmerisch, who was a fellow young volunteer suffering from a combat wound and dying in a field hospital. Toward the end of the book, another combat death occurred, this time an older soldier and the author’s mentor, Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky. In between, there was the scene of hand-to-hand combat, during which Paul killed a French soldier in a trench. For several hours, he watched the man die, slowly and painfully. He felt remorse and asked forgiveness from the man's corpse. He was emotionally devastated. When he rejoined his comrades, they tried to comfort him and reassured him that it was only part of the war.

There were descriptions of horrific combat wounds:

“We see men living with their skulls blown open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces…..”

Then there was the narrative when the author and several of his comrades were wounded and taken to an army hospital. The surgeon-general of the hospital was keen on amputations, regardless of whether the procedure was necessary. On frequent occasions, patients in serious conditions were taken to the “dying room”. Returning from the dying room was extremely rare. Fortunately, it did occur to one of Paul’s comrades.

Out of such experiences, the author offered many memorable utterances and reflections:

● “We reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.”
● “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces.”
● “Terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducts – but it kills, if a man thinks about it.”
● “Every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous……And generals too, they become even more famous than emperors.”

A most thoughtful and sensible proposal was made by Paul’s friend Albert Knopp. “He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than the present arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.”

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is considered by many the greatest war novel of all time. Be that as it may, it is doubtful that the author’s wisdom, gained through painful personal experience and enunciated poignantly in the book, has made any significant impact in reducing the number of wars among nations, which are led by humans who, according to Mark Twain, “…was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired”.

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Luc REYNAERT

A generation of men destroyed by the war

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 25, 2010

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In this rightly called classic anti-war novel, E.M. Remarque depicts forcefully the brutal awakening of a group of young soldiers in World War I.

Failed education, breakdown of ideals
The preachers glorified the Fatherland, the romantic character of war. For them, duty to one's country should be the greatest thing. But, they concealed the real interests behind the war, the rulers, the war profiteers and their acolytes.
The first death in war shattered all belief that authority was a synonym for greater insight and more human wisdom. The recruits immediately felt that the army leaders considered them as beasts, training them as `circus-ponies'.
The romantic war turned into butchery: `if we were to give morphia to everyone, we would have to had tubs full.'

Universal comradeship and the ideal solution
In direct confrontations, the soldiers came to understand that the enemies were in fact brothers: `Comrade, I did not want to kill you. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction ... Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours? If we threw away these rifles and this uniform you could be my brother.'
The ideal solution is to consider war `as a bullfight. The ministers and generals of the countries (in war), armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be more simple and just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.'

Promise not fulfilled
`How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when a culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood. I see how people are set against one another and foolishly, obediently slay one another. I see that the keenest of brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. I promise you, comrade. It shall never happen again!'

Strong scenes and metaphors
About war: `three enemy trenches with their garrison, all stiff as though stricken with apoplexy, with blue faces, dead.'
About war and peace: `We hear the muffled rumble of the front only as a distant thunder, bumblebees droning by quite drown it. Around us stretches the flowery meadow.'
About death: `These nails will continue to grow like fantastic cellar plants. They twist themselves into corkscrews and grow and with them the hair on the decaying skull, just like grass in good soil.'

Unforgettably, E. M. Remarque evoked in a highly emotional language the tragic fate of a lost generation. But also, it was `of no account'. The war machine continued to rumble all over the world.

I also highly recommend the hard-hitting and very insightful memoirs from the other side of the channel written by Robert Graves in `Goodbye to All That.'
These books stand in sharp contrast with `the ice cold hedonist attitude within plain Barbarism' (T. Mann) expressed in the texts of Ernst Jünger about the same war.

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John Hopper

Superbly well written (and a great translation)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2007

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This is a re-read of this classic First World War novel about a group of German ex-classmate soldiers in the trenches in the latter part of the Great War. This is a more modern translation from the mid 1990s (the previous version I read eight years ago was the original translation done shortly after the novel's first publication in Germany in 1929). While both translations are very good, the more modern translation was, I felt, particularly superb at describing the experiences, the sights, sounds and smells of life in the trenches for the ordinary soldier. Much of these experiences apply equally to the ordinary soldiers on all sides (interestingly, and perhaps inevitably, on both sides the ordinary soldiers seem to tend to think conditions are better for their counterparts in the opposite trench). The narrator Paul Baumer is not a poet or a political animal, and for him peace means the absence of the noise and tension of bombardment, the peace and quiet of his home and his books. This makes the novel all the more powerful in its message of peace without being preachy. A deserved classic.

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David Quick

Some books should be read by everyone - this is one.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 26, 2023

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Only once before have I found it hard to write anything In a review because the book was so complete - John Steinbeck`s "Grapes of Wrath" . This is the second one. Bbb nothing more to say, but please do read it.

hfffoman

Well worth reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 5, 2014

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If you want to read what it was like in the first world war, this and Goodbye to All That are usually recommended. I have just read them both and, although this is fiction and the other is autobiography, all Quiet on the Western Front gives a better feel. It is full of what seems to be authentic detail and is a much more interesting read (though the Graves book is also good). It gives a good understanding of just how desolate the soldiers felt, how terribly they were changed by their experiences.

Even better, In my view, is The Ice-cream War by William Boyd (which I reviewed separately).

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Asmodeous

FIVE STARS FOR BOOK THREE/FOUR STARS FOR READING

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 31, 2010

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A wonderful, thought provoking and powerful book about German infantry experiences during the first world war - really captures life in the trenches - amazing. The box set is well packaged and beautifully presented. The reader however sounds like an English public school boy rather than a german soldier which at first and takes some getting used to and initially I was a bit put off. But with time you become accustomed to the telling and the sheer power of the story takes over. I am grateful that an audio version exists and at a reasonable price - a great book that fully deserves to be called CLASSIC.

Five stars for the book
Four Stars for the Reader

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