Anti-war literature as a bestseller: Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Remarque, Erich Maria: Im Westen nichts Neues, 34. Auflage, Köln 2012
Quotes:
„Brutalized in a strange and melancholy way’ …“: Remarque, Erich Maria: Im Westen nichts Neues, 34. Auflage, Köln 2012, 23 (Translation)
„human animals’“: ebd., 46 (Translation)
„drumfire, despair and the men’s brothel“: ebd., 198 (Translation)
„This book is meant neither …“: ebd., 9 (Translation)
„He fell in October 1918 …“: ebd., 199 (Translation)
„Why is there war …“: ebd., 142f. (Translation)
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