The World War I Masterpiece
Erich Maria Remarque, Brian Murdoch, Norman Stone, Alexander von Humboldt, Andrea Wulf: All Quiet on the Western Front (2018, Everyman)
840 pages
English language
Published Aug. 6, 2018 by Everyman.
This edition is in Hebrew. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other --- if only he can come out of the war alive
A re-read. Tremendous, of course. The translation (from German to British English) renders the prose a bit matter-of-fact, losing some of its emotional heft, but this book is still rightly poised amongst the top war novels of all time.
