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All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'In the West, nothing new') is a semi-autobiographical novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon ...
- Erich Maria Remarque
- 1929
Jun 16, 2015 · The book captures it and becomes the definitive anti-war statement of the Great War,” says Dr. Thomas Doherty, professor of American Studies at Brandeis and the author of Hollywood and...
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- The Guns of August. By Barbara Tuchman. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the Modern Library's top 100 nonfiction books of all time, this is the definitive history of the first 30 days of the war—a month that set the course of the entire conflict.
- The First World War. By John Keegan. Twenty years after its original release, this gripping chronicle remains the best single-volume account of the war.
- Gallipoli. By Alan Moorehead. As an acclaimed correspondent for London's Daily Express, Moorehead covered WWII from North Africa to Normandy. But the Australian once swore he'd never write about the most famous military engagement in his nation's history: the Battle of Gallipoli.
- Paris 1919. By Margaret MacMillan. WWI brought about the fall of the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires and displaced millions of people across Europe.
Sep 21, 2020 · All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is arguably the most famous anti-war novel of all time. Published in 1928, the novel was one of the greatest book successes of the...
Jul 26, 2022 · The definitive anti-war book. Written by a veteran of the First World War, it recounts in horrific and spellbinding detail the real life experience of war. The book’s central character, Paul Bäumer, is, like many in Germany and likewise in Britain, enthusiastic about his forthcoming adventure.
Feb 23, 2024 · The earliest of the following ten books was published in 1921 and the latest in the 2020s, but each has a powerful statement to make regarding the horror and futility of war at a time when once again, sadly, military conflict appears to be escalating across the world.
104 books based on 21 votes: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Catch-22 by Joseph Heller,...