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Erich Maria Remarque
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Vicky
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Synopsis
One by one the boys begin to fall...In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.
Review
Have you ever wondered what it was like to go to war and experience the horrors of battle, hand to hand combat, with the deadening and deafening sounds of constant shelling. All Quiet on the Western Front graphically tells us how it was - but interestingly it wasn't the cries and screams of the injured men that got to the soldiers but the agonising screams of the horses who had to wait for a lull in the fighting to be shot.
Erich Maria Remarque has written quite the most extraordinary book I have ever read with his poetic and lyrical prose that immediately takes you on a journey of sights, sounds and emotions of the First World War. Whilst it was very different to today's wars in Iraq and Afganistan it none the less does give us an idea of what every soldier goes through in all wars in what ever century they happen.
This book is unputdownable and I highly recommend it.
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