All Quiet on the Western Front

Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written.   The book was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.   One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the \'glorious war\'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young \'unknown soldier\' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.   Remarque\'s evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force. - The Times All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the many books burned by the Nazi Party after Hitler took power, because of its representation of German soldiers as disillusioned and its perceived negative representation of Germany.