IM WESTEN NICHTS NEUES: RomanIm Westen nichts Neues [Mass Market Paperback] by Erich Maria Remarque

Germany: Ullstein Buch, 1983. Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW w/trace margin discoloration. Softcover/NF w/light edge & surface wear. German Language text. Classic, semi-autobiographical novel of Erich Maria Remarque (1898 - 1970), himself, conscripted at the age of 18, a veteran of World War I. First published 1928, "All Quiet on the Western Front", translated into many languages, was adapted to an Oscar-winning film. This, Remarque's best known work, decries war through frontline experiences of German soldiers. It is the story of the young teacher Paul Baumer who, along with many of his like, enlisted in the German army and who emerges a proponent opposed to all those the principles of hate that pit young men, in different uniforms, one against the another. A powerful and elegant indictment against the brutality, stupidity, banality and senselessness of war at the expense of lives of young and innocent men at the loss of a generation. The very ordinariness of the protagonists gives the novel power; --- there is no heroism, nor division between enemies. A brilliant, heartbreaking indictment of war; a cry for pacifism; a repudiation of a "profession" dedicated to multiplication of "the dead".