10 Books Similar to All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

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All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque (1928)

4.16(741 ratings)

In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is the moving story of a young ‘unknown soldier’ experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

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Storm of Steel

by Ernst Jünger (2016)

This memoir offers a starkly different, yet equally powerful, perspective on WWI as 'All Quiet on the Western Front'.

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