All Quiet on the Western Front

Reviews / Votes

Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force * The Times * Remarque is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank * New York Times Book Review * There are some books that should be read by every generation... Remarque's story of German trench soldiers of the 1914-18 war gains even more authority in the context of the loss of life in wars that still rage Brian Murdoch's new English translation shows that Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force * The Times * The book conquers without persuading, it shakes you without exaggerating, a perfect work of art and at the same time truth that cannot by doubted This harrowing narrative is unexpectedly beautiful, more pensive than angry * Irish Times * Its extraordinary appeal may stem from Remarque's success in universalising the soldiers' experience - that the war was the same for all who fought * Daily Telegraph * The power to move people by words, to arouse their sensibilities as well as their minds, was Erich Maria Remarque's to an extraordinary degree * New York Times * [A] masterpiece... For the first time a writer gave a raw, pitiless account of men killing each other, by any means possible... its unrelenting honesty makes it hard to read it as anything else * Economist *