All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: first_name: Erich Maria
last_name: Remarque
Language: English
Year: 1929

<i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i> is an iconic anti-war novel. A semi-autobiographical work by WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque, it is the story Paul Bäumer and his classmates, who are inspired by a patriotic school teacher, Kantorek, to enlist in the Imperial German Army. Here, they face the extreme mental and physical trauma of the German trenches and a growing disconnect between the front and civilian life. 

First published in serial form in 1928, the book and its sequel were subsequen