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This is perhaps the greatest Anti-War novel in European Literature. It is a devastating attack on the glory of fighting for the "honour" of one's country. It is filled with horror and soul-destroying events. It is also filled with compassion for the innocent young lives that were sacrificed on this terrible altar of blood. Yet there is a kind of consolation. Even in this cauldron it is possible for true heroism to exist--the heroism of validating the self--not through blood-letting but through a
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No words can express how eloquent this is or how profoundly sad.
AQotWF didn't hold up to my memory of it. There are too many first-person and quasi-first person accounts with greater insight and of higher literary quality. This worked as the thoughts of a not-very-well-educated nineteen-year old, but the verisimilitude made it far less compelling to me than the accounts of the officer class. And the end was just cheesy. Remarque had it both ways; a first-person account would end either abruptly with the obvious inference or with the narrator having survived,
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Hard to classify this - a fictionalized memoir. Based on the experiences of the author as a young soldier in the German Army during WW1. Hard to put down.
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