TY - GEN AU - Remarque, Erich Maria TI - All quiet on the western front: the greatest war novel of all time SN - 9780449213940 U1 - 833 PY - 1956/// CY - New York PB - Ballantine Books N2 - Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive ER -