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A horror.
This is the fictionalized account of Remarque's experience as a young German soldier in WWI. Enlisting with some of his buddies right after graduating from school, the narrator introduces the reader to the other young men of his company, boys he scrounges food with, plays cards with, hunkers down in holes for days with while under attack, and talks to about politics and home. He is sent to the front and watches his fellow soldiers die in horrible ways and is aware that he's being changed forever
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I read this several years ago. I can see why many people have said that it is the best indictment against war in literature.All quiet eloquently explores the foundations of humanity and degretation of the human spirit. Humans have a limitless capacity for exploring mind and soul; they demonstrate since time immemorial that the best use of their brains and hearts is in building not destroying.
It was heartbreaking and triumphal, bittersweet in the truest sense of the word. Other reviewers can crit ...more
It was heartbreaking and triumphal, bittersweet in the truest sense of the word. Other reviewers can crit ...more
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