The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I,
considered by many the greatest war novel of all time--with an
Oscar-winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.
"[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first
rank."--The New York Times Book Review
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but
despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of
sorrow. . . .
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in
the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful
enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been
taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight
against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the
same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only
he can come out of the war alive.