All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
254 pages~4 hrs
“The war that claimed a generation, the book that gave them a voice.”
Witness the devastating transition from patriotic idealism to the raw, visceral survival of the trenches in the definitive novel of World War I. Paul Bäumer and his classmates find that in the face of mechanized slaughter, the only thing that matters is the soldier beside them.
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