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Road Back (Paperback)

by Remarque (Author)
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  • Paperback: 343 pages
  • Publisher: Fawcett Books; Ballantine Books ed edition (1 Jun 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0449912469
  • ISBN-13: 978-0449912461
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 302,463 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A great writer . . . He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend his language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure".

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In a sequel to " All quiet on the Western Front," Ernst and the few survivors of his company return home after the war to find food in short supply and their families changed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars BEST BOOK EVER, 16 April 2004
By CHRISTOPHER (Sittingbourne, Kent United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
Basically, if you've read "All Quiet" then you must follow up with this book to fully realise the tragedy that WW1 brought to Europe. Whereas "All Quiet" focuses on the times during the war itself, "Road Back" concentrates on the aftermath and here is where things get a whole lot worse. Personally, this book is better than "All Quiet", as for me it highlighted the fuller sense of despair and hoplessness that remained, and which you would not totally understand by reading "All Quiet" alone. The book never fails to vividly describe the domestic devastation caused by the war, but the final two chapters and the epilogue are the most blisteringly intense I have ever read, and hammer Remarque's point home ferociously and faultlessly. It's essential reading if you've read "All Quiet"; it's an unfailingly vivid look on the havoc caused by WW1 in post-war society and in those who returned. Superb!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars a truely compelling, remarcably written book, 17 Aug 1999
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i have recently read All Quiet On The Western Front, Remarque's first novel. to follow it up, i have read The Road Back. to anyone who's read the first, the only way to give closure to the tough, touching story of Paul Baumer is to read the sequal- The Road Back. In it, a young soldier named Ernst and the few men left of his company come back home after 4 grueling years of the unspeakable horrors of military life in World War 1 only to discover that the world may no longer be at war, but there's still a war far more horrifical raging in their own hearts. They must now fight to fit back into society, and stay true to themselves and their dead comrades. In this story of lost youth and the fight for survival, Ernst and his friends fight to regain control of their shattered lives and go on in what seems to be an almost pointless existance, finding hope in the strangest places... And as Remarque once said, this is a story of 'a generation ruined by war'.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book, 16 Jul 1998
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As with Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun", this book is beautiful and devastating. If only we had listened to Trumo's and Remarque's voices crying in the wilderness of the post-WWI years, we would have spared 60 million lives and our national soul as well. Read it and weep. Read it and work like hell to end war and war-making.
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