Monday, 28 September 2015

Banned Books - All Quiet on the Western Front

         


All Quiet on the Western Front  - Erich Maria Remarque   (1929)

Perhaps the greatest book to come out of first-hand experience of the trenches. It has all the themes we would expect; of pointlessness, waste, disconnect with those at home, black humour. Banned in Nazi Germany for presenting a less than heroic and thrilling account of war.


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