All Quiet on the Western Front |
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| Author:
| Maria Remarque, Erich |
| Series title: | Collector's Library |
| ISBN: | 978-1-907360-67-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2012 |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan
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| Imprint: | Collector's Library, The |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $16.99 |
Book Description:
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This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a youngGerman soldier, Paul Bauer.Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society ingeneral, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six schoolfriends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts.Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body.They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering,that they are unable to...
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This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a youngGerman soldier, Paul Bauer.Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society ingeneral, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six schoolfriends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts.Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body.They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering,that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other.The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Awards.Translated and with an Afterword by Brian Murdoch, Professor of German atStirling University.