Erich Maria Remarque was born in Germany in the year 1898 into a lower-middle-class family. In 1916, he was drafted into the German army to fight in World War I where he was badly wounded. Ten years after the war ended, he published a book which was translated a year later into English with the title All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a novel about the experiences of ordinary German soldiers during World War I. Remarque starts off the novel by stating, "This book is to be neither an accusation
English, and Erich Maria Remarque fought as a war novelists for Germany. Each of their works reflect this history. Yearly acknowledges that “All Quiet on the Western Front is not Baumer’s description of war as what occurred in various places at specific times but describes war as a condition.” (HOW DO I CITE THIS!), yet this same analysis occurs in Owen’s works, Though from different sides of the conflict, the writings of Wilfred Owen in “Strange Meeting” and Erich Maria Remarque in All Quiet on the Western
History 101, Fall 2014 Book Review The Life of a Soldier The novel All Quiet on The Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque describes the experience of World War I through the eyes of a young solder Paul Baumer. Baumer’s experience with the brutal murders and the bloody battles are so horrible that he learns to disconnect his mind from his emotion to allow him to deal with the horror of war accordingly. Remarque’s analysis of World War I through Baumer’s experience add to our understanding