Heavy rain and mud made conditions extremely difficult during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917. (The Print Collector/Heritage Images/Getty Images) Published in January 1929, “All Quiet on the Western ...
For good reason Erich Maria Remarque’s masterwork “All Quiet on the Western Front” is routinely tagged the most important war novel ever written. At the time of its full-length publication in 1929—it ...
A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel. German soldiers, 1916. When Germany declared war on Russia in August 1914, Erich Maria ...
Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World War. Its catalysts were so trivial and its consequences so apocalyptic that ...