All Quiet on the Western Front - [Paperback]

Set in the throes of The Great War''s terrifying trenches All Quiet on the Western Front casts the reader in the shoes of the Patriotic soldier Paul Bumer. His nave allusions of war''s nobility and sense of adventure are demolished in the face of indifferent industrial warfare. Though unfolding more than a century ago Erich Maria Remarque''s classic novel not only portrays in vivid detail the combatants'' physical and mental trauma but dramatizes as well the tragic detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home.