![]() ![]() “To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. ![]() “I am no longer a shuddering speck of existence, alone in the darkness –I belong to them and they to me we all share the same fear and the same life…I could bury my face in them, in these voices, these words that have saved me and will stand by me.” ― Erich Maria RemarqueĢ. The book has many quotes that describe the horrors of war. The book really was the first book to describe the true horrors of war and the brutal aftermath. For years after the end of the First World War, the memoirs and descriptions of the war came from generals and statesmen such as Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis, published in 1923.īut a decade later suddenly books came out that described what the war was like not from the perspective of the political leaders, but from the men actually fighting the battles on the ground. Erich Maria Remarque’s monumental work is credited as changing the public perception of the war. You can find a copy of All Quiet on the Western Front here. ![]()
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