All Quiet on the Western Front (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Erich Paul Remark
- First Published: 1928
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: World War I
- 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
Places Discussed
*Western front. Theater of World War I in which German forces faced the Western Allies along an extensive series of battlefields that ran from the Belgian coast south into northern France. (The eastern front was the line along which Germany confronted Russia.) Much of the western front was made up of intricate systems of trenches from which troops sallied forth across treacherous “no-man’s-lands” in mostly futile attacks on enemy positions. Through most of the war, the battlefronts moved very little, and many troops stationed in the trenches endured...
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Erich Maria Remarque (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Erich Maria Remarque (Long Fiction)Erich Maria Remarque (Dictionary of World Biography)
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