All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque
The greatest novel about the First World War and an international bestseller.In the trenches, one by one the boys begin to fall…In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their chauvinistic schoolteacher to troop off to the “glorious war”. With the fore and patriotism of youth they sign up. Their disenchantment begins during the b….Read More
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