All Quiet On The Western Front

A hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldiers harrowing experiences in the trenches widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time—featuring an Introduction by historian Norman Stone. Soon to be Netflix Film. When twentyyearold Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty culture and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches. Through the ensuing years of horror Paul holds fast to a single vow to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another. Erich Maria Remarques classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants physical and mental trauma but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home. Remarques stated intentionto tell of a generation of men who even though they may have escaped shells were destroyed by the warremains as powerful and relevant as ever a century after that conflicts end.