“ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT: All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It should be ranked with Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms as an eloquent expression of the futility and irreparable loses of war. Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high deals and leave it disillusioned or dead. Paul watches his Second Company—150 men strong—reduced in a single battle to 32 weary survivors. Remarque takes the reader into the very trenches of World War I(one);[creator filled that is], and it is his particular skill to bring us so keenly and sympathetically into the
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The unabridged version of “All Quiet on the Western Front” takes considerably longer than the movie to unfold. You have time to think in-between the words. If this is the version with translation by A. W. Wheen and Narrated by Frank Muller then you are in for a treat. As Frank even in his monotone way makes you feel that these thoughts are coming from your head. The cover has a picture that actually relates to a section in the book. I spent some time in the U. S. Army and what is really weird is except for the technology, I can relate to the people and attitudes in the book. He describes training, leaves, antics in the front, and comradeship. If you spent anytime in the military you should be able to extrapolate many things that he just implies. Anyway even if you have read the book or seen the movies the recording is an added dimension that should not be missed. ”He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the western Front. “ All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)