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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Nothing less than brilliant. A poignant, almost poetic account of one soldier's emotional journey through WWI. Devastating. Should be required reading.
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“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. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another."
Nothing less than brilliant. A poignant, almost poetic account of one soldier's emotional journey through WWI. Devastating. Should be required reading.
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February 5, 2019
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February 9, 2019
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February 10, 2019
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It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.
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At first astonished, then embittered, and finally indifferent, we recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill.
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We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation. It is not against men that we fling our bombs, what do we know of men in this moment when Death is hunting us down ---
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Speak to me. . . take me up. . . take me, Life of my Youth. . . you who are care-free, beautiful. . . receive me again. . .
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Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man, like me.
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How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
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"SHIT, SHIT, SHIT. I knew this was coming. Gaaaaaahhhdddd, this is so sad.
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February 23, 2019
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Feb 23, 2019 10:55AM
Great review Karen!😉💖
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Kat wrote: "Great review Karen!😉💖"Thanks Kat! xx
Wonderful review Karen! And fabulous updates. 😘😘
ÓË¥S³ó²¹°ù´Ç²ÔÓË� wrote: "Wonderful review Karen! And fabulous updates. 😘😘"Thank you, Sharon. xx
You may also like Johnny got his gun by TrumboStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
The forgotten soldier by Guy Sajer.
D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 by Holger Eckhertz, Sprech Media (Editor)
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
The picturebook Krieg dem Kriege by Ernst Friedrich is the pictursize Johnny got his gun. It has german, english and french in one book, threelingual. Look it up in google, but be warned.
Last letters from Stalingrad.
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield is great too.
and non war --> Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, enjoybale if it is your kind of taste.
You may also like Animal Farm and 1984, both written by George Orwell
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942�1943 by Antony Beevor
The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Marta Hillers
About a german woman in Berlin surving rape and hunger and the savagers itself.
Children Of The A Bomb: Testament Of The Boys And Girls Of Hiroshima by Arata Osada
Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands by James N. Yamazaki, Louis B. Fleming
The Guns of August
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Dennis wrote: "You may also like Johnny got his gun by TrumboStorm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
The forgotten soldier by Guy Sajer.
D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944 by Holger Eckhertz..."
What an amazing list. Thank you for taking the time to send it to me. Sadly, I've only read two books from that list, so I have quite a bit of reading ahead of me. The last book, The Book Thief is among my all time favorites.
Also I have one to suggest to you, if you haven't read it yet.
Three Day Road
