All Quiet on the Western Front

Synopsis

Widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time, this classic tale of a young german soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches of world war i is the basis for an academy award-winning film. With an introduction by bestselling author sebastian faulks. When twenty-year-old paul bäumer and his classmates enlist in the german army during world war i, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under the first brutal bombardment in the trenches.