All Quiet on the Western Front

In 1914 Paul Bumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story.

A few years after it was published in 1929 the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque's novel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.

Public Domain (P)2024 SNR Audio

War…what is it good for?

The book brought the gut wrenching story of war in the trenches home. Devastating. Narrator was fantastic.

Fantastic

The greatest war time story I’ve ever read. Absolutely enthralling. Brilliant. Wonderful. Three more words.

The storyline is rich and powerful

This book is amazing. It is so well written and yet so, so sad. An amazing read!