All Quiet on the Western Front: Now an Oscar and BAFTA Winning Film

Erich Maria Remarque

Nov 2010 · All Quiet on the Western Front Book 1 · Random House

About this ebook

** NOW A HIT NETFLIX FILM, WINNER OF 7 BAFTAS AND 4 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE**

Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written.

One by one the boys begin to fall...

In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

'Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force' The Times

TRANSLATED BY BRIAN MURDOCH

Now published for the first time alongside Brian Murdoch's new translation of the novel's sequel: The Way Back.

Ratings and reviews

The book makes you sick at times because sick were the days it talks about. The book makes you grieving for the dead of the war. It sounds so true because it makes you look at things from within the situation the characters were put into. Despite being like a sharp knife in terms of sadness, it is very touching and speaks to your heart. It is a must read book for everyone.

The pity of war personified. Horrifying, funny, poignant. An absolute mesmerising read. Read it at school and it is the main reason that 30 odd years later I am still learning more and more about the war. My 15 year old son adores this book and it has helped spark his interest in WW1. A must read.

A very sad book, but a must read if nothing else, it brings home the complete and senseless waste of good lives and the destruction of an entire generation.

About the author

Erich Maria Remarque (Author)
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author and veteran of the First World War. He was born 1898 in Osnabrück, Germany. At the age of 18 he was conscripted into the German army. During his service he was wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck. Following the war he worked as a primary school teacher, and later as a librarian, a journalist and a technical writer.
Among Remarque's published novels were All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back, Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph. His works were publicly burned by the Nazi German government, and in 1947 he and his first wife became naturalised citizens of the United States. Four years earlier, his sister had been executed at the behest of Hitler's 'People's Court'.

Remarque adapted the book Ten Days to Die, about Hitler's final days, as a screenplay, and he also wrote for the stage. His last novel was The Night in Lisbon, published in 1962. During his lifetime Remarque married twice and had love affairs with the actresses Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.