The Road Back
After surviving several horrifying years in the inferno of the Western Front, a young German soldier and his cohorts return home at the end of WW1. Their road back to life in civilian world is made arduous by their bitterness about what they find in post-war society. A captivating story, one of...
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After surviving several horrifying years in the inferno of the Western Front, a young German soldier and his cohorts return home at the end of WW1. Their road back to life in civilian world is made arduous by their bitterness about what they find in post-war society. A captivating story, one of Remarque's best.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781931541749 (1931541744)
Publish date: December 1st 2001
Publisher: Simon Publications
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
War,
Philosophy,
Roman,
German Literature,
Germany
The war is over and the soldiers go home. What they find there is not what they spent four years dreaming about. When they get home there is protest all over Germany. Those who did not serve are giving lofty speeches about what the soldiers did on the battlefield to the returning soldiers who kne...
I'm yet again lagging behind in writing reviews. This one is one I meant to pen last weekend shortly after I finished my re-read of The Road Back in anticipation of the centenary of the end of the First World War. As it happens, I'm finally sitting down to write a review on the evening before Armis...
I'm yet again lagging behind in writing reviews. This one is one I meant to pen last weekend shortly after I finished my re-read of The Road Back in anticipation of the centenary of the end of the First World War. As it happens, I'm finally sitting down to write a review on the evening before Armis...
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