A review by mikhail_mascarenhas
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
4.0
"That's right," says Kat, "you've said something for once, Tjaden. State and home-country, there's a big difference."
The author through his characters questions the very purpose and nature of war. Why fight another's war? How does one find a reason to live after experiencing a total annihilation of human feeling?
It's a bitter story of a band of classmates who enlist to join the German army with the fervor of youth. The trials of World War I take a toll on them as they lose their youthful spirit and become men of a lost generation.
Certainly one of the better war novels of it's time.
The author through his characters questions the very purpose and nature of war. Why fight another's war? How does one find a reason to live after experiencing a total annihilation of human feeling?
It's a bitter story of a band of classmates who enlist to join the German army with the fervor of youth. The trials of World War I take a toll on them as they lose their youthful spirit and become men of a lost generation.
Certainly one of the better war novels of it's time.