When readers think of the literature of World War I, it is often the British war poets or novels from other nationalities such as
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) or Ernest Hemingways A Farewell to Arms (1927), and, perhaps, memoirs such as Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth (1933) and Ernst Jungers Storm of Steel (1920).
-- German foot soldier and writer
Erich Maria Remarque, Regiment of the XV Infantry Reserve, from the book "After"
All Quiet on the Western Front was a Hollywood adaptation of a bestselling German novel by
Erich Maria Remarque, which fictionalised his experiences in the trenches of the Great War.
During which war is the
Erich Maria Remarque novel All Quiet on the Western Front set?
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) was a German-American novelist.
We learnt all about him at the
Erich Maria Remarque Peace Centre.
Externally, not all is so quite on the Kingdom's Western front, to twist the legendary novelist
Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece's title.
The film was based on an
Erich Maria Remarque novel, and Universal Studios, having won an Academy Award in 1930 with its adaptation of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," was hoping lightning would strike again.
Erich Maria Remarque is a novelist who has showed unfailing courage to portray the bare realties of the life of military people in the front.
If one takes into account the sheer numbers of World War I remembrances, there are not that many that present the traumatized stories that we see from the hands of Robert Graves, Romain Rolland, and
Erich Maria Remarque. But Vietnam memoirs reveal endless ambiguities, absurdities, doubts, and outright rejection on the part of the participants, so much so it is hard to imagine any memoir of it would present the stalwart accounts that dominated stories about the world wars.