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| Title | : | The Road Back (All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2) |
| Author | : | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2001 by Simon Publications (first published 1931) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. World War I |
Erich Maria Remarque
Paperback | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 4.33 | 4451 Users | 196 Reviews
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The last combats and skirmishes… Peace is nearing… However death still keeps doing its dire work… And the dread doesn’t let go.“Gas shells!” shouts Willy, springing up. We are all awake now and listening intently. Wessling points into the air. “There they are! Wild geese!” Moving darkly against the drab grey of the clouds is a streak, a wedge, its point steering toward the moon. It cuts across its red disc. The black shadows are plainly visible, an angle of many wings, a column of squalling, strange, wild cries, that loses itself in the distance. “Off they go,” growls Willy. “Damn it all – if only we could pull out like that! Two wings and away.”The war is over and the road back home lies ahead… For those who have managed to deceive death and survive.
The wide, grey square is much too big for us. Across it sweeps a bleak November wind smelling of decay and death. We are lined up between the canteen and the guard-room, more space we do not require. The wide, empty square about us wakes woeful memories. There, rank on rank, invisible, stand the dead.The war is over but its echo is long and sorrowful: horrendous memories, nightmares, madness, nervous breakdowns, psychological traumas, suicides, alienation…
The things here are stronger – the things that differentiate us from one another are too powerful. The common interest is no longer decisive. It has broken up already, and given place to the interest of the individual. Now and then something still will shine through from that other time when we all wore the same rig, but already it is diminished and dim. These others here are still our comrades, and yet our comrades no longer – that is what is so sad. All else went west in the war, but comradeship we did believe, in; now only to find that what death could not do, life is achieving – it is driving us asunder.The gory wave of war retreats and on the shore of peace crippled bodies, crippled minds, crippled souls and ruined fates are left… And generals are already readying new wars…
Declare Books Conducive To The Road Back (All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2)
| Original Title: | Der Weg zurück |
| ISBN: | 1931541744 (ISBN13: 9781931541749) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2 |
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Ratings: 4.33 From 4451 Users | 196 ReviewsWeigh Up Appertaining To Books The Road Back (All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2)
P.E. wrote: "Yes it does, Mike! And how many other stories about or from war veterans!"Yep. Half a century apart and an ocean away, and yet...the sameIn a word- phenomenal. If All Quiet on the Western Front was brutal in its depiction of trench warfare and ugly violence, The Road Back is far more subtle in showing how war shattered the emotional stability and peace of these men. "But we let ourselves be taken in by their phrases; and instead of fighting against them, we fought for them. We thought it was for the Future. It was against the Future. Our future is dead; for the youth is dead that carried it. We are merely the survivors, the
The Road back, although less well known than All Quiet on the Western Front, is just as thought-provoking and, in subtle ways, even more heart breaking.The story begins during the last few days of WWI. As battle rages around them, a group of young German soldiers contemplate what peace will be like and dream of returning home with both fear and longing. They grieve for lost comrades who won't be returning with them but anticipate the joy of being back with friends and family, of returning,
"Yes, it is a hard thing to part, but to come back again, that is sometimes harder."This sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front (AQ) is less famous, but I liked it better. While AQ focused on men in the trenches during WWI and the horror they faced, The Road Back tells of the same men as they return to their old homes.Many of these guys went off to the war while they were still boys, full of piss and vinegar and patriotism. As they lived the horrors described in AQ for 3 or 4 years, everything
Another Remarque classic, another one of the Greatest novel I've read. This is THE ABSOLUTE PERFECT followup there can be to the epical greatness of the story of All Quiet on the Western Front. A must read for anyone who ever heard of World War 1/2, or ever had a friend, or just ever read even a single book!
Outside Germany, everyone knows Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, but few people are aware of his other novels, which is a pity, because some of them are terrific, particularly those set in the turbulent Germany of the twenties. Remarque continued to write until his death in 1970, his novels reflecting an active life that saw him leave Germany in the thirties and live in exile, eventually settling in New York and becoming a U.S. citizen. The Road Back is a sequel to All Quiet, depicting
A worthwhile sequel to AQOTWFTHE ROAD BACK by Erich Maria RemarqueA top-notch sequel to the same authors All Quiet On the Western Front; its still considered a sequel, even though the protagonist from the first novel in the series, Paul Bäumer, was killed at the end, as Paul and several other characters (such as Kat) are still referenced here. While this novel is mainly about the transition from WWI to peacetime for these youthful soldiers (led by new protagonist Ernst) of a freshly defeated
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