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Erich Maria Remarque

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Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for portraying the human cost of war and the disillusionment experienced by those who survived it. Born Erich Paul Remark in Osnabrück in 1898, he was conscripted into the German army during the First World War and was wounded on the Western Front. His wartime experiences shaped much of his fiction, particularly its emphasis on fear, loss, comradeship and the difficulty of returning to civilian life.

Remarque achieved international fame with All Quiet on the Western Front, which follows a group of young German soldiers whose patriotic expectations are destroyed by trench warfare. His other novels include The Road Back, Three Comrades, Arch of Triumph and The Night in Lisbon, many of which explore exile, political persecution and lives disrupted by the rise of Nazism and the Second World War. His books were banned and burned in Nazi Germany, and he later lived in Switzerland and the United States.

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Appeasement and the Road to War1933–1939 CE Armistice and Aftermath of World War I1918–1923 CE Cold War and Post-war Era1945–present Eastern Front of World War II1941–1945 CE Holocaust1933–1945 CE Nazi Germany1933–1945 Rise of Nazism1919–1933 CE Western Front1914–1918 CE

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Historical fiction series by Erich Maria Remarque (1 series)

All Quiet on the Western Front in Order

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The All Quiet on the Western Front sequence follows a generation of German soldiers through the First World War and its aftermath. All Quiet on the Western Front places Paul Bäumer and his school friends in the trenches of the Western Front, while The Road Back turns to…

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Standalone historical fiction by Erich Maria Remarque (7 books)

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