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All Quiet on the Western Front

By: Erich Maria Remarque
Narrated by: Frank Muller
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Paul Bäumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war’s final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of all time, an eloquent expression of the futility, hopelessness and irreparable losses of war.

©1958 Erich Maria Remarque (P)1994 Recorded Books, LLC

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Great book

Truly loved this book, very powerful and couldn't stop listening to it... Finished it in one day at work

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This book is important

The narration is top notch. The novel is one of the most powerful I have ever read. I think everyone should read this before calling for military action.

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A Must Read!

Unbelievably tragic and breathtaking, this classic read holds no quarter for the realities of war. Juxtaposed against the endless fields of mangled corpses, Remarque entwines the human drive for survival. Alongside Johnny Got His Gun and Slaughterhouse-five, this novel demands to be reread several times over.

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Tried to love it

Liked first half. A realistic portrayal of young soldiers on the front in the war. But as I read on it no longer held my attention.

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A chilling experience

One of the best books I’ve listened to about the horrors and realities of war. A timeless classic that I will share with my own kids.

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All quiet on the western front

This srory is gripping , one can feel the horror of a man killing war.

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Essential Reading

This is an essential that everyone should read. It hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Far too many people are ignorant to the true cost of war and just how much of that cost is burdened on the lower classes and scarcely shouldered by the 1%. They are the ones who start it but they don’t fight in it and occasionally they profit greatly from it. All Quiet doesn’t beat one over the head with this message but the message is clear.
The performance of the narrator is more than adequate and the best part is it’s short. It tells the story of a German soldier on the ground in WWI and while it doesn’t shy from details of the gritty reality of the war it also doesn’t add unnecessary filler or exposition. It is concise and efficient story telling and I appreciate that.

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No wonder it has been required reading for so long

This is the best account of a soldier's experience from any war that I have ever read. A must for anyone considering any war lightly. Amazing, gripping and tragic.

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Combat veteran

Fascinating to listen to a story of soldiers who fought more than 100 years ago and and there be little change in what we experience today as soldiers. The tactics change but but the friendship, suffering and death remain the same.

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Timeless view into the world of a soldier at war

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This book should be mandatory reading for Congress before they can vote on a declaration of war. Powerful.

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