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Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war's final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of all time, an eloquent expression of the futility, hopelessness and irreparable losses of war.
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"This book is a classic and is really a novel that details the horror and ravishes of war. Not just the impact physically on the soldier but also the life changing experience that a soldier will carry with him for the rest of his life. The propoganda an idealism that initially excites a young man and drives him to enlist is completely shattered and changes his view of the world and his fundamental character to the point that all innocence and hope is gone. At one point he feels that he know longer belongs in his pre-war world.It was so realistis that under the Hitler regime this was one of the books that was burned under a modern day Bonfire of the Vanities. In short, a must read "
— Chap (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Surely the greatest of all war books. It stands pre-eminent.”
— Manchester Guardian -
“It should be distributed by the millions and read in every school.”
— Le Monde (Paris) -
“[The] classic novel of young German classmates headed off to war and horror in the trenches.”
— Library Journal -
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
— Erich Maria Remarque, the author
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A New York Public Library Staff Pick of Favorite Books of the Last 125 Years
All Quiet on the Western Front Listener Reviews
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William Stockwell, 5/1/2014
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" 1. Another lame reason of why war stinks. 2. You know the ending. "
— Laura, 5/24/2011 -
" Fremragende bog med en tilpas god veksling mellem handling og beskrivelse. Bogen er desuden en kærkommen lejlighed til at reflektere over meningen med krig og den menneskelige udvikling i ungdomsårene. "
— Jacob, 5/24/2011 -
" Amazing war novel that portrays the feeling and attitudes of soldiers and their cruel conditions during WWI. They despise the war but cannot conform to normal society as well. An amazing literary novel. "
— Ivan, 5/23/2011 -
" Remarque wrote this novel about World War I from firsthand experience. Its earnest denouncement of war is still valid and poignant today. "
— Christopher, 5/21/2011 -
" I'm not a huge war book fan but I enjoyed this book a lot! It opened my eyes on what the war front was like in WWI! I felt connected to each of the characters and their families. Remarque had an amazing writing style and a great talent! Recommend it to everyone! 100% amazing... "
— Brittany, 5/15/2011 -
" Read this in high school, but I remember LOVING it. About a young soldier at war. "
— Rachel, 5/12/2011 -
" it was dreary and numbing but a great read, conveyed the emotion of what it must have been like in the first world war "
— Brenton, 5/10/2011 -
" If you like realistic fiction war books that hurt your brain and make you sad because of how many people die, please read!<br/> "
— Lesa, 5/7/2011
About Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) was born in Osnabrück, Germany, of French ancestry. He studied at the University of Münster but had to enlist in the German army at the age of eighteen. He fought on the Western Front and was wounded several times. He began his writing career as a journalist. Fame came with his first novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), which sold more than a million copies in its first year and created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. He left Germany in 1932 because of Nazism, came to the United States in 1939, and became a US citizen in 1947. All Quiet on the Western Front was adapted to film in 1930.
About Frank Muller
Frank Muller (1951–2008) was an Audie Award–winning narrator. A classically trained actor, Frank appeared on both television and the stage. His credits include Hamlet, The Crucible, The Taming of the Shrew, The Importance of Being Earnest, Law & Order, All My Children, and many, many more. In 1999 Frank was awarded the AudioFile Lifetime Achievement Award, the top honor in the audiobook community. He has also won twenty-three Earphones Awards.