All Quiet on the Western Front (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Erich Maria Remarque
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Antiwar Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, War fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, France or French people, War, Death or dying, World War I, Corruption, Idealism, Military life or service, Soldiers, Germany or German people
- Locales: France, Germany
Barely out of school, the nineteen-year-old Paul Baumer finds himself in the trenches of the Western Front. After having his patriotic idealism crushed by the chicaneries of basic training, Paul increasingly hardens in his efforts to survive the endless shellings, the gas attacks, the nightly patrols, and the maddening fear of ever-present death. Only the bond of a cynical, though not insensitive, camaraderie among the common soldiers and a brief idyll with three French girls provide moments of human warmth in the general atmosphere of indiscriminate slaughter.
Baumer is forced...
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