I've read a lot of great books about World War One - and this is the best. In a mere 200 or so pages, Erich Maria Remarque perfectly captures the absurdity, tragedy, humour, horror, camaraderie and waste of war. This book packs so much in, and it is beautifully and simply written. A room full of Ger...
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war - epigraph from ...
This is a novel I’ve been meaning to read for years and I’m not really sure what took me so long. It may just have been that I’ve never been much of a one for war literature. In any event, I wish I’d read it years ago. Even though Remarque disavowed any political purpose in writing the work, it’s...
I believe that this is one of those books that many of us read when we were in high school. I say many of us because I don't remember actually reading this book myself, but a part of that is because I really didn't like reading the books that we were forced to read at high school. It wasn't until I ...
That war destroys lives is a truism. That it's dehumanizing, alienating, traumatizing - I would hope that these are readily recognized. And yet I fear we forget the simple horrors of war in rushes of excitement or romance or patriotism.Perhaps it's the way I was brought up, but in my early twenties,...
Prior to reading this book, I had seen both the 1930 movie version and the 1979 TV adaptation (starring Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine). Thus, I didn't feel inclined for many years to pick up this book and read it. Besides, I had read Thomas Crane's war novel, "The Red Badge of Courage" in hi...
Back in 1986, a friend of mine, who was also a Vietnam War veteran asked me to go see the movie Platoon with him. As we walked out of the theater, he was unusually quiet but asked me what I thought of the film. I responded that I thought it was excellent but I also admitted that I thought parts were...
All Quiet on the Western Front is a classic that I've always wanted to read. I've read a lot of World War II books, but very few from World War I, and this one had the added interest of being written from the German perspective. Right from the very beginning, I could see why it is a classic and feat...
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