6 member(s) found this review helpful.
There are some books that should be read by every generation. The book conquers without persuading, it shakes you without exaggerating, a perfect work of art and at the same time truth that cannot be doubted
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is one of those books that keeps being taught in schools. Damned good thing, too. Everyone should read it. It is heartrending, horrifying, beautiful and not a word wasted. Very short book that will stay with you long after you read it--haunting in that way that the best books are.

Mark D. (
Jarhead) wrote on 4/29/2007...
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Remarque is an honest writer. When he writes of war he depicts it honestly. Read this, then read the rest of his writings.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
i found the beginning a little tough to get through, but i really liked the ending.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is simply the best war novel ever written. Truly enlightening.
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Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.
"The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first trank, 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."
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is excellent for a high school history class.

Pete F. (
Pedro) wrote on 4/22/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Classic novel of World War One
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A must read for those studying trench warfare during WW I. A warning...this book accurately portrays the horrors of living in the trenches.

Holly E. (
Holl286) wrote on 2/1/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Probably the closest one can get to a soldiers' experience without being one. This book shows the true nature of war.