"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...."
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. They become soldiers with enthusiasm. But the world of work, duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each another, if only he can come out of the war alive.
Editorial Review(s)
“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.” —The New York Times Book Review
About the Author
Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German novelist who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel is All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) which tells the tale of German soldiers in World War I. This was followed by The Road Back (1931) and The Three Comrades (1936).
