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All Quiet on the Western Front (Paperback)

by Erich Maria Remarque (Author), Brian O. Murdoch (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (3 Jan 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099532816
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099532811
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,281 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #2 in  Books > Fiction > World > German
    #22 in  Books > Fiction > By Period > 20th Century

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Irish Times, Eileen Battersby

'this harrowing narrative is unexpectedly beautiful, more pensive than angry'


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'Remarque has written quite the most extraordinary book I have ever read...poetic and lyrical prose...un-putdown-able and I highly recommend it'.

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54 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars So sad, so poignant, 21 May 2003
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This book is so moving and yet, despite the horrors endured on the frontline during WW1, a sense of humour (however grim) is retained throughout, almost to the last few paragraphs. The story is written in the first person narrative, by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. He is only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front. He enters the army, along with 6 other lads he was at school with, each one filled with fresh, lively, optimistic and patriotic thoughts, but within a few months they are all as old men, in mind if not completely in body. Paul and his friends witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. This is a very moving and poignant novel, and the reader is made even more aware of its poignancy in knowing that its author is writing from experience, having suffered greatly as a young man on the frontline, whilst fighting for the Fatherland.
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5.0 out of 5 stars only non-football book i couldnt put down, 3 Aug 2004
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This is one of the best books I have ever read. I had to try and find a novel to do for my english higher and after strugling to find something I could get really into, I came across this. I had done WWI in history and had some background knowlodge however this book gave me atotally new perspective to the war after learning the suffering not just the allies but the germans also suffered. Paul Baumer shows the trajedy and mind numbing monotony of trench warfare, as this war turned in to a mechanised killing machine through the use of poison gas, machine guns etc. Before I read this novel I thought war was just a necessity needed to take out tyrants however now I have seen the horrors a front line soldier has to endure. Remarque brilliantly shows a generation destroyed in the trenches. This novel is simply a must read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and thought provoking, 21 Jul 2001
By Mr. R. N. Lock "Ricky Lock" (bexley, kent United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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When I read this brilliant book I felt so many emotions, but I suppose the underlying emotion was sadness. In many ways all schoolboys should be made to read this book, for it depicts war as it is, without all the glamour and hero worship that some books and films portray. I thought birdsong was a great book showing how people change from a traumatic experience, such as World War 1. But all quiet on the western front leaves it for dead in this area in my opinion. I will never forget this incredible educational and wonderful book. I am so glad it was written from the German perspective, because it shows us that underneath all our exterior frames we are the same; we have the same fears and dreams. My last words about this book are read it if you dare the experience will live with you forever.
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