All Quiet on the Western Front
Recommended by Cécile Fabre, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #2 in World War I, Ranked #5 in War Fiction — see more rankings.
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. less
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. less
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Cécile Fabre He knows that his pleasure at a beautiful landscape, at the smell of good food, will forever be coloured by what the landscape looked like in the trenches, by the food that was cooked in the trenches. (Source)
Rankings by Category
All Quiet on the Western Front is ranked in the following categories:
- #38 in 10th Grade
- #37 in 15-Year-Old
- #5 in 1920S
- #55 in 20th Century
- #91 in Awarded
- #71 in Bucket List
- #42 in Censorship
- #95 in Class
- #31 in English
- #63 in European History
- #20 in Folio Society
- #15 in German History
- #71 in High School
- #49 in High School Reading
- #75 in Historical Fiction
- #28 in Learning English
- #78 in Literature
- #13 in Military
- #99 in Military History
- #90 in Modern Classic
- #85 in Modernism
- #47 in Modernist
- #68 in Poster
- #40 in Translated
- #42 in Western
- #14 in Windows
- #33 in World
- #59 in World History
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