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All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque

Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.

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.

Publisher Description

Available as:
Regular Print (translated by A.W. Wheen)
Regular Print (translated by Brian Murdoch)
Audiobook
eAudiobook
eBook
Large Print

In other languages:

Im Westen Nichts Neues (German)

Na zachodzie bez zmian (Polish Translation)

Na zapadnom fronte bez peremen ; Tri tovarishcha ; Vozvrashchenie (Russian Translation)

Naewrop dan tawantok hètkan mai pianplang (Thai Translation)

The Literary War: an Online Discussion Series
Explore the literature of World War I with journalist and broadcaster Sandra Martin, in this special Book Buzz series running from September to November, 2014.

The books for the series are: