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Summary: A Very Touching & Realistic Approach to WWI
Review: It seems like most of us really don't know too much about WWI, but more on WWII. Remarque's work gives us the opportunity to look at the reality of WWI, and the gruesome and emotional nature of it as well. Having served in the German army himself, Remarque's passages about the conditions and battles during the war are truely realistic. But we see another side of war through the main character. We see how war emotionally effects the young recruits, and how it displaces them from society in the future. Great book overall!
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Summary: All Quiet on the Western Front- a great work
Review: I think that this book was fascinating. I had to read it for my World History class and I really enjoyed it. Writing my report on it was fascinating also because I found out how realistic the book actually was. I really enjoyed it and you would too.
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Summary: Good
Review: Eric Maria Remarque-Author All Quiet on the Western Front is a very good war story. it is written in first person style through the eyes of Paul Baumer.The story takes place during WWI in Germany. The soliders are mostly stationed in bunkers and are shelled from long distances(from the French0.
This book was well written but it wasn't very fun for me to read. The soliders don't really have much close combat with the ememys.After a while it gets very boring to read. It was kinda hard for me to understand. It took me half the book to find out that the character in the story was German. I thought that he was American. The type of people that would enjoy yhtis story would be veterans of any war or people that enjoy reading about good war stories
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Summary: Great as a historical book or literature
Review: This is a great book from a historical perspective by it's description of the experience of war and as a work of literature in it's philosophy of the common every day soldier. Set in World War I, this book is an account of a German soldier on the Western Front. I had to read this in high school and have read it once since then (about 12 years ago). I am currently studying World War I as a hobby and will probably read it again to gain some additional insight into this truly great war.
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Summary: The best possible accusation
Review: "This book should be neither accusation nor confession". This is how this classic by Remarque starts. The book tells the story of the schoolboy Paul, who together with his classmates enlists as soldier to fight in WW I. They end up in the trenches in Belgium where they have to fight a long and meaningless fight for a little piece of no man's land. This is a novel with a first-person narrator, which makes the book all the more impressive: Paul describes the degeneration of a generation of youngsters: the fear, the dullness, the gas, the lice, the dysentery, the hunger, the shooting of countless people and the way in which he loses his friends one by one. Two times he is allowed to leave the front. The first time he visits his parents, but he cannot really get used to the civil society anymore because he misses the comradeship among the soldiers. The second time he has been shot and has to recuperate in a catholic hospital. This book shows as no other book I have read so far the pointlessness and horrors of war. No wonder this book was banned by Hitler in 1933. Because of its simple description of the real events, it is the best possible accusation against war.
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Summary: All Quiet On The Western Front
Review: The book All Quiet on the Western Front is about Paul Baumer and a few of his classmates enlisting in the German Army. The only problem with this is that the country of Germany is in the middle on the First World War. Throughout the book, the author tries to teach the reader about the horrors of war, values of friendship, and many life lessons. As Paul is traveling throughout Germany and Russia with his friends, he experiences war in the deepest sense. Killing and watching killing as he loses friends as well as the enemy. The book is so detailed it is almost real. One night when Paul was sneaking around behind enemy line he gets stuck in a raid. He ends up spending the night in the bottom grenade hole with a dead Russian solider on top of him. It happens to be one of the solider that he shot. Nothing like shooting a man and then being forced to watch him die. He has been in the war so long that he does not even remember civilian life. He once got the chance to go back to visit his sick and dying mother and he did not know how to act. The war had changed him so much that he did not know what to do off the battlefield. He did not however, tell his mom what war was really like. "It is not as bad as everybody says mom", is al he would ever tell her for the far of her worrying about him. Then the day came when a mortar shell hit both Paul and a close friend and they began their journey home. They moved from hospital to hospital on their way home. That was almost as bad as the war. The hospitals were full of dying people that had very little chance to live. When Paul recovers from his mortar shell wound, he is not sent home like he is expecting but instead he is shipped back to the battlefield. This is were he will remain for the remainder of the war.
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Summary: One of the true classics
Review: This story did a lot to capture the opposing view in one of the greatest wars ever fought. All I had ever heard stories about was from the Allied perspective. What a change of climate it was to see what things were like for the other side. Not only were the conditions pretty bad, but the Germans were just like the French and English. This book does a lot to break up the image that has been created about the Germans in the past. They weren't just a bunch of evil, ambitious warmongers; they were just fighting for their country. The only problem I had with the book was it kind of lagged at certain parts, but overall this was a really great book and deserves a spot in one of the best war novels of all-time.
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Summary: All Quiet on the Western Front
Review: All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of Paul Bäumer, a young schoolboy who enlists with his classmates and close friends in the German army of World War I. Paul describes his position on the war by saying, "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. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay each other. I see the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me" (263). Although Paul is very young, he and his friends posses the knowledge and mentality of old veterans. Fighting in the war quickly transforms Paul from a boy to a man, yet, due to his lack of experiences in life, his knowledge of life is limited to death.
In my opinion, All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best war novels that I have ever read. Also, because it is written on the side of the Germans, it gave me a new perspective of the hardships faced in the war. After reading this book, I learned of the horrible conditions of trench warfare and I hope that the world never again has to experience that kind of fighting.
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Summary: Deeper than I thought it would be
Review: I was made to read this back in high school and I was not looking foward to it. I soon discovered how much importance this book holds, not to mention how much information it holds. I love the fact that it goes deep into what war was like for him and what different feelings they were having. I tried sitting through the movie a few years ago and found that I just could not do it. I truly believe that if you want to find any useful information you have to read the book, because not only does it go more into depth but it shows emotion and feeling that lacks in the movie version.
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Summary: Great book - Poor Translation
Review: The novel really is a great one, but the translation from the original German isn't the best. A lot of the novel was translated too literally and the nuances that were intended are lost. If you can find another translation - I'd give it a try.
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