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	• All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Ballantine Books, 1987 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 456 reviews view larger image
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all quiet on the western front

All Quiet on the Western Front is a war novel which really reminded me that war is horrible. WWI was one of the bloodiest wars ever, and this book reminds everyone that. One reason this book was so interesting to read was that the author actually served in WW1.

The real twist on this book to me is that it is written from a German perspective. Most of the books I read about WW1 were about the French, English, or Americans. So this book was a really different read to me.

It is a sad book though because in the end ( if you haven't read the book don't read this part ) all the main characters are severly injured or dead. The author of this book recieved not 1 or 2 but 5 wounds! So in the parts where the characters are in the hospital he was able to describe it well. Overall it is a great book.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque, reveals the tragic day to day life of a soldier during World War I. The story is read in first person through the eyes of Paul Bäumer. Paul is a German Soldier who is about 19 when the war started. Remarque teaches the value of friendship through Paul's experiences during the
war. When the soldiers are not in battle they become very close in order to survive emotionally and physically. Throughout the book soldiers risk their lives in the heat of battle to help wounded soldiers. This support that Paul's comrades gave to each other is inspiring and shows how friendship gives hope for someone to keep going through the toughest of times. The author shows how a soldier risks all he has for a fellow soldier.
A skill Remarque uses is his ability to vividly depict grotesque images and scenes of war that men had to face everyday during war. He was able to accomplish this without spending entire paragraphs filled with adjectives and descriptions. This ability can be attributed to the fact that Remarque actually fought in World War I.
The novel is a well written book that takes you on the long and tough journey that a soldier in war must go through. At the end if the book the reader feels like they were actually in the war. This book is the perfect war novel for all ages.

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"All Quiet on the Wester Front" as a gift

I am a 51 year old man. I had read "All Quiet on the Western Front" when I was in my twenties and loved it. My youngest son is now twenty and not a real big book reader, but he loves history and does read about generals and leaders of the past. So I figured it would be a good idea to buy this book for him. For some reason he took to it immediately and has told me: "It started a bit slow, but it's really a great book now as he (the main character) gets into the war." A strange experience for a father of three to see his son so excited about the gift of a book. And he was excited!

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An Obscure War Focused.

This book is an excellent, semi-nonfiction account of the author's days spent in the trenches. It is poignant, gruesome, and awe striking tale of spending every waking moment avoiding death. The author puts his reader in the trenches along side the German men. He places them in the hospitals, the food scavenges, the visits home. Every day, this war fades into the abyss of an uncaring world. Everyone should enjoy this book as excellent literary fiction, and as a recalling of history.

The Book Every World Leader Should Read

Remarque has given us a gift that every world leader in a position to send his or her young citizens into war should treasure. They should keep it on their night table and read it as they might the Bible or the Koran. They should remember every word, every vivid, horrific picture of the destruction of youth in muddy trenches. They should re-read it every day before stepping into the halls of political power and comdemning young men to death. The story of the idealistic young German, Paul Baumer, reminds us that war does not distiguish one nation from another, nor right from wrong, nor good from evil. War, itself is the enemy, and as Remarque so eloquently portrays, the color of the uniform is irrelevant for it is soon obliterated in the same mud. Remarque's work is one of the three best novels ever written about war, along with Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong: A Novel of Love and Warand Douglas W Jacobson's Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II

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