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[T]he theme of All Quiet on the Western Front is the individual's struggle against forces beyond his control: technology, institutions, politics, social conventions, disease, and death. The soldiers become automata, trying to avoid death more than actually fighting. Rapid changes of scene take the reader to the front—sheltering from shell-fire in a cemetery, under gas attack, behind the lines—on leave to a Germany that cannot conceive of life at the front, into contact with Russian POWs, and to the hospital, where the consequences of war are among the severest and clearest. The increasingly condensed final chapters show the young German troops defeated in the field, clearly unable to win in the face of livelier and better fed Allied troops, and Bäumer dies before the actual armistice. His death in the end, the author seems to say, is not even worth reporting.
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All Quiet On The Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The book was published in 1929, and it was the author's way of coming to terms with the war. Parts of the book are autobiographical. All Quiet On The Western Front ... has a history with censorship, as the book was banned in Germany. Here are a few quotes from All Quiet On The Western Front.
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The Western Front tour visits the many battlegrounds, historic sites, and important monuments, throughout the Somme, Arras and Flanders. It includes Paris, London and Brugges for sight-seeing, shopping and restaurants. You travel between France and Britain on the Eurostar high-speed train, and in London visit Horseferry Road, where AIF Headquarters was located, and the Imperial War Museum.
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All Quiet on the Western Front is by far one of the best war movies ever made. Though it does not have the bloodiest fight seems , nor does it have great “300” graphics, but what it does have is the truth of war, and a good example of the faces of German soldiers. What the movie shows even more is that Though Germany has had its dark moments in history, as well as the United States, Germany is a nation of great and honorable men and woman. Not only does the men and woman of Germany deserve the respect and honor that they have fought for, but they deserve the honor of patriotic, not the label of Nazis.
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In the Second Great War, the Western Front was opened by a British invasion of the Netherlands and Germany launched in 1941. The British thrust was halted in front of Hamburg in 1942, and in 1943, German forces expelled their British counterparts from Germany and pushed them back across the Netherlands. (In 1941, the British attempted to turn the Germans' northern flank on this front by launching an invasion of hitherto neutral Norway. This move failed, and had the effect of driving Norway into the Central Powers camp.)
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Published in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front masterfully depicts the horror of war. Erich Maria Remarque based the book on his own experience as a young infantryman in the German army during World War I, and was partially influenced by Henri Barbusse's Le Feu Journal d'une Escouade, (1916) a war novel published while the war was still being fought. His avowed purpose in writing the novel was “to report on a generation that was destroyed by the war—even when it escaped the shells.” More than a million copies of the book were sold in Germany the first year it appeared, followed by millions more when translated and distributed in the other nations. However, Nazi Germany took away Remarque's citizenship in 1938. Later on, he became a citizen of Switzerland and the United States. Though Remarque published ten novels and various screenplays, he was known primarily as the author of this novel.
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