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The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
 
“[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank.”—The New York Times Book Review

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid 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 . . .  if only he can come out of the war alive.
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“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

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Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.
"The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0449213943
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 12, 1987
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Reissue
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780449213940
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0449213940
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.7 ounces
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 15+ years, from customers
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.14 x 0.74 x 6.88 inches
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 1
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 830L
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Erich Maria Remarque (22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) is about German soldiers in the First World War, which was also made into an Oscar-winning movie. His book made him an enemy of the Nazis, who burned many of his works.

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Customers find this book to be one of the best World War One novels, providing great insight into the horrors of war and being particularly informative about World War I. The writing is praised for being to the point and descriptive, with one customer noting how it masterfully blends incredible introspective language. Customers describe it as a somber read filled with vivid depictions, making it suitable for high school reading lists and important for readers of all ages.

191 customers mention "Readability"187 positive4 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a powerful and great work of all time that they highly recommend for everyone to read.

"...All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best books ever written for its overall imagery that’s gives a vivid image of all the aspects of life..." Read more

"...yet somehow it held me to the edge of seat, and I read through it at a pretty quick pace...." Read more

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"...is one of the few novels concerning World War I that I have found worth reading. It is widely acclaimed as "The Greatest War Novel of all Time."..." Read more

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Customers praise this war novel as a classic that provides great insight into World War I, showing the real horrors of combat.

"...on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an excellent novel about the First World War...." Read more

"...Remarque reached acclaim across the world as an intimate portrayal of life during the war from the "enemy's" point of view...." Read more

"...highly recommend it to anyone searching for a book with a good story filled with action, emotion, and morals." Read more

"...It is widely acclaimed as "The Greatest War Novel of all Time." It may seem trite in this day and time to label a novel as "anti-war"...." Read more

61 customers mention "Writing quality"55 positive6 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book, noting its amazing and descriptive prose that is to the point, with one customer highlighting its excellent job of blending incredible introspective language.

"...is how the protagonist is a German soldier as well being written by a German soldier...." Read more

"...how he used diction and syntax especially because it illustrated to the reader his story, and so many others during war and what life is really like...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's emotional depth, describing it as poignant and sad, with one customer noting the palpable intensity of the sadness and another highlighting its melancholic portrayal of ceasefire days.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
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    Great for student note taking. If you or your kid is a person who likes to write notes in the books they are reading for school, this one is prefect. In expensive and large enough font and spacing for notes and stickies.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2017
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    For someone who is interested in war novels, this one is a requirement to read. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an excellent novel about the First World War. One of the first books published about the war it was one of the first insights of life in the trenches. This novel gave people sometimes there first experience of what it was like. Leading the way for writers and filmmakers to visualize it. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best books ever written for its overall imagery that’s gives a vivid image of all the aspects of life as a soldier in World War One.
    Paul Baumer is 18 years old and has just finished school when the war began. His schoolmaster encouraged him and his classmates to enlist for it was there divine duty to Germany. Soon in just the first week half of them are dead now being stuck in a trench surrounded by artillery bombardment. One interesting use the book does is how the protagonist is a German soldier as well being written by a German soldier. Many consider Germany as the enemy during the Great War so having a German enlisted man gives a shape to opinion of those who read it. How all the armies whether German, French, British or Russian, every soldier was a man with a life suffering in war. Another is how it tells all the aspect of a soldier in World War one. The book does not tell the whole story inside the trenches as Paul Baumer experiences other parts of life during warfare. When Paul goes on leave returning home, when he worked at a prisoner of war camp, when he was hospitalized surrounded by slowly dying men. Each moment gives a visual and emotional pull of how each felt. The last is its use of imagery. This novel cares one of the best uses of imagery in how it tells life in the trenches. How men spend months living in holes full of mud with only rations to eat and nothing to entertain oneself but small talk and cigarettes. How you could die at any moment in dozens of ways by artillery, gas, snipers, disease or just standing three inches to far to the left at the wrong time. The book doesn’t just say what happens but the emotional aspect it as well. How Paul describes how you must separate your emotions fully from yourself because if you think to hard where you are, you will go crazy. In the war Paul says “there is no liberation, no freedom, no pride, only death.”
    All Quit on the Western Front is a book everyone should read whether there are interested in war or not. It is a lesson of how horrible war really is and how the only thing it brings in the end is death. Everyone should know what the war was like. That it was much more than just starting WWII, a war long ago that doesn’t matter anymore, or how that could only happen during that time. The Great War changed the world forever and if we are not careful it could happen again.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2001
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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Written by Enrich Maria Remarque
    Reviewed by Yael Bozzay

    Originally banned and burned in Germany by the Nazi's in 1933 (five years after it was first published) because of it's antinationalist, pacifist, and dissident sentiment, All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque reached acclaim across the world as an intimate portrayal of life during the war from the "enemy's" point of view. It was translated to over twenty-five languages, two movies have been made, and it has sold many million copies. As a result of its popularity across the world and its subsequent distaste to the Nazi's, Enrich Maria Remarque was exiled in 1938, and his citizenship in Germany was revoked.

    All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written from the point of view of a German soldier, Paul Baumer, fighting on the western front during 1917 & 1918 (the last two years of WWI). Through Paul's experiences we can see the similarities between all men in war. From detailed descriptions given by Paul of the food soldiers ate, the boots and clothes they wore, and the conditions under which they lived and fought to the corpse rats, the war field graveyards where the bodies of buried soldiers were unearthed during battle, Remarque leaves no stone unturned about the conditions and subsequent effects of war upon its soldiers.

    Closely paralleling Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," an account of the effects of WWI on an American soldier, All Quiet on the Western Front displays the universal effects of the war upon those who fought heroically - disillusionment with war and facing the reality of a country who, upon the soldier's return, cannot identify with his life. Estrangement and distance grows with society as the men realize that "the world they (girls & those in society) were in was not the world that he was in" ("Soldier's Home") and "men will not understand us and ... [they will] push us aside; ... the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin"(All Quiet on the Western Front 294). The similarity between men on both sides of the war reveals the universal result of war - death (if not physical then social or emotional). When, upon entering the war, Paul Baumer says, " Our early life is cut off from the moment we came here, and that without even lifting a hand" (AQWF 19), he foreshadows the life of the young soldiers who must face war without a choice and whose life pays the ultimate price of victory for his country. But will Paul willingly sacrifice all for sake of his country?

    Through the griping battle scenes and the loss of friends to returning home to a "foreign country," All Quiet on the Western Front reveals the struggles of not only soldiers but of ordinary men forced to fight a battle against other men: "...for the first time, I see you are a man like me... Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us... forgive me comrade; how could you be my enemy?" (All Quiet On the Western Front 223) Remarque's personal experience in the war and his realization of the terror that actually occurs - man killing man - reveals the necessity of counting the cost of war and maintaining peace whenever possible. This is what we face today, and the question remains - have we learned from the past, or do we continue to tread upon the same course that leads us to destruction?

    It is this grim realization that caused his book to be banned and burned by the Nazi's and spread acclaim throughout the rest of the world. Spreading the truth of the real tragedy of war opened people's eyes to the reality that faced those condemned to die - a reality that faces everyone and is the same for everyone in the midst of war ... a reality that is no respecter of persons and takes all it can - a reality called death.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2024
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    This book got into the deeply rooted controversy of war, is it good or bad? Personally, I love his take on it and how he used diction and syntax especially because it illustrated to the reader his story, and so many others during war and what life is really like. I only found time to read this between classes, yet somehow it held me to the edge of seat, and I read through it at a pretty quick pace. I would highly recommend it to anyone searching for a book with a good story filled with action, emotion, and morals.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2025
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    Watched the Netflix movie adaptation and was interested in getting the book. It is a great read.

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  • M. GARCIA DIEZ DE VICTORIA
    5.0 out of 5 stars gran libro
    Reviewed in Spain on September 26, 2023
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    una magnifica lectura en ingles si te gusta la temática de la primera guerra mundial
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    Reviewed in the United Arab Emirates on October 7, 2022
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    This is a must have. The book, though translated, reads like a book written natively in English. The "adventures" (or better said as lack of adventure) shown depict an aspect of warfare we commonly overlook. The book displays the destruction of warfare, and changes your view of the world. This is a must havebif you want to learn to see the humanistic factors of any disaster. The book is also much better than the movie, and the plot is completely different. Seriously, why is the movie named after the book if the plots are different?
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    5.0 out of 5 stars RAS
    Reviewed in France on August 23, 2023
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    2.0 out of 5 stars 2 stars for the quality of material.
    Reviewed in India on January 25, 2018
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    The print quality and paper quality is really bad. It's a mass market paperback in it's true sense. It seems like pages would come loose even before I finish reading the book.
    This review is for the mass market paperback, sold by cloud tail and published by ballantine.
  • Guilherme Elias
    5.0 out of 5 stars com quantas vidas se faz uma guerra?
    Reviewed in Brazil on September 5, 2024
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    esta é uma daquelas obras onde você fecha o livro e a história permanece com você, os personagens, suas dores, suas lutas e angustias passam a ser suas também, é triste e impactante ao mesmo tempo que é belo e tocante, uma obra necessária para que os horrores vistos na guerra não sejam esquecidos e jamais repetidos.
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    Reviewed in Brazil on September 5, 2024
    esta é uma daquelas obras onde você fecha o livro e a história permanece com você, os personagens, suas dores, suas lutas e angustias passam a ser suas também, é triste e impactante ao mesmo tempo que é belo e tocante, uma obra necessária para que os horrores vistos na guerra não sejam esquecidos e jamais repetidos.
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