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From the first sentence, this story takes you right into the experience of being a young naive person who has been sent into war. Paul Bäumer eagerly enlists with his class into World War I, but it is not long before all that he holds to be true is shaken when the bombs begin to fly.
It's the details of the war---the sudden increase in food rations after a large part of Paul's company is killed in battle, the shocking result of a bombing on human bodies, the experience of sitting with a dying man ...more
It's the details of the war---the sudden increase in food rations after a large part of Paul's company is killed in battle, the shocking result of a bombing on human bodies, the experience of sitting with a dying man ...more
Terribly sad. This novel is an ongoing 12-chapter litany of human suffering and depravity. Told from the point of view of a very young German soldier, it covers all the horrors of war in a graphically described way. Some say it is the best anti-war novel ever written.
I've read quite a few anti-war novels and this one will remain in my memory a long time along with Johnny Got His Gun, The Red Badge of Courage, and My Brother Sam is Dead.
There's a lot that could be said about old men sending you ...more
I've read quite a few anti-war novels and this one will remain in my memory a long time along with Johnny Got His Gun, The Red Badge of Courage, and My Brother Sam is Dead.
There's a lot that could be said about old men sending you ...more
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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