--- product_id: 1695094 title: "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" price: "£8.16" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1695094-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-a-novel store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel **Price:** £8.16 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** £8.16 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1695094-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix. “[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank.”— The New York Times Book Review I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . . This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive. Review: Good book - I was needing to buy this book for my daughter’s class who is a sophomore in highschool. The book arrived super fast, in good condition and my daughter enjoyed reading it. Review: A Requirement to Read - For someone who is interested in war novels, this one is a requirement to read. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an excellent novel about the First World War. One of the first books published about the war it was one of the first insights of life in the trenches. This novel gave people sometimes there first experience of what it was like. Leading the way for writers and filmmakers to visualize it. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best books ever written for its overall imagery that’s gives a vivid image of all the aspects of life as a soldier in World War One. Paul Baumer is 18 years old and has just finished school when the war began. His schoolmaster encouraged him and his classmates to enlist for it was there divine duty to Germany. Soon in just the first week half of them are dead now being stuck in a trench surrounded by artillery bombardment. One interesting use the book does is how the protagonist is a German soldier as well being written by a German soldier. Many consider Germany as the enemy during the Great War so having a German enlisted man gives a shape to opinion of those who read it. How all the armies whether German, French, British or Russian, every soldier was a man with a life suffering in war. Another is how it tells all the aspect of a soldier in World War one. The book does not tell the whole story inside the trenches as Paul Baumer experiences other parts of life during warfare. When Paul goes on leave returning home, when he worked at a prisoner of war camp, when he was hospitalized surrounded by slowly dying men. Each moment gives a visual and emotional pull of how each felt. The last is its use of imagery. This novel cares one of the best uses of imagery in how it tells life in the trenches. How men spend months living in holes full of mud with only rations to eat and nothing to entertain oneself but small talk and cigarettes. How you could die at any moment in dozens of ways by artillery, gas, snipers, disease or just standing three inches to far to the left at the wrong time. The book doesn’t just say what happens but the emotional aspect it as well. How Paul describes how you must separate your emotions fully from yourself because if you think to hard where you are, you will go crazy. In the war Paul says “there is no liberation, no freedom, no pride, only death.” All Quit on the Western Front is a book everyone should read whether there are interested in war or not. It is a lesson of how horrible war really is and how the only thing it brings in the end is death. Everyone should know what the war was like. That it was much more than just starting WWII, a war long ago that doesn’t matter anymore, or how that could only happen during that time. The Great War changed the world forever and if we are not careful it could happen again. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,824 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #50 in War Fiction (Books) #169 in Classic Literature & Fiction #471 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 4,636 Reviews | ## Images ![All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81t+rLoUAzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book *by S***I on April 4, 2026* I was needing to buy this book for my daughter’s class who is a sophomore in highschool. The book arrived super fast, in good condition and my daughter enjoyed reading it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Requirement to Read *by D***R on April 3, 2017* For someone who is interested in war novels, this one is a requirement to read. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is an excellent novel about the First World War. One of the first books published about the war it was one of the first insights of life in the trenches. This novel gave people sometimes there first experience of what it was like. Leading the way for writers and filmmakers to visualize it. All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the best books ever written for its overall imagery that’s gives a vivid image of all the aspects of life as a soldier in World War One. Paul Baumer is 18 years old and has just finished school when the war began. His schoolmaster encouraged him and his classmates to enlist for it was there divine duty to Germany. Soon in just the first week half of them are dead now being stuck in a trench surrounded by artillery bombardment. One interesting use the book does is how the protagonist is a German soldier as well being written by a German soldier. Many consider Germany as the enemy during the Great War so having a German enlisted man gives a shape to opinion of those who read it. How all the armies whether German, French, British or Russian, every soldier was a man with a life suffering in war. Another is how it tells all the aspect of a soldier in World War one. The book does not tell the whole story inside the trenches as Paul Baumer experiences other parts of life during warfare. When Paul goes on leave returning home, when he worked at a prisoner of war camp, when he was hospitalized surrounded by slowly dying men. Each moment gives a visual and emotional pull of how each felt. The last is its use of imagery. This novel cares one of the best uses of imagery in how it tells life in the trenches. How men spend months living in holes full of mud with only rations to eat and nothing to entertain oneself but small talk and cigarettes. How you could die at any moment in dozens of ways by artillery, gas, snipers, disease or just standing three inches to far to the left at the wrong time. The book doesn’t just say what happens but the emotional aspect it as well. How Paul describes how you must separate your emotions fully from yourself because if you think to hard where you are, you will go crazy. In the war Paul says “there is no liberation, no freedom, no pride, only death.” All Quit on the Western Front is a book everyone should read whether there are interested in war or not. It is a lesson of how horrible war really is and how the only thing it brings in the end is death. Everyone should know what the war was like. That it was much more than just starting WWII, a war long ago that doesn’t matter anymore, or how that could only happen during that time. The Great War changed the world forever and if we are not careful it could happen again. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All Quiet on the Western Front -- In war we are all the same *by A***R on October 10, 2001* All Quiet on the Western Front Written by Enrich Maria Remarque Reviewed by Yael Bozzay Originally banned and burned in Germany by the Nazi's in 1933 (five years after it was first published) because of it's antinationalist, pacifist, and dissident sentiment, All Quiet on the Western Front by Enrich Maria Remarque reached acclaim across the world as an intimate portrayal of life during the war from the "enemy's" point of view. It was translated to over twenty-five languages, two movies have been made, and it has sold many million copies. As a result of its popularity across the world and its subsequent distaste to the Nazi's, Enrich Maria Remarque was exiled in 1938, and his citizenship in Germany was revoked. All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written from the point of view of a German soldier, Paul Baumer, fighting on the western front during 1917 & 1918 (the last two years of WWI). Through Paul's experiences we can see the similarities between all men in war. From detailed descriptions given by Paul of the food soldiers ate, the boots and clothes they wore, and the conditions under which they lived and fought to the corpse rats, the war field graveyards where the bodies of buried soldiers were unearthed during battle, Remarque leaves no stone unturned about the conditions and subsequent effects of war upon its soldiers. Closely paralleling Hemingway's "Soldier's Home," an account of the effects of WWI on an American soldier, All Quiet on the Western Front displays the universal effects of the war upon those who fought heroically - disillusionment with war and facing the reality of a country who, upon the soldier's return, cannot identify with his life. Estrangement and distance grows with society as the men realize that "the world they (girls & those in society) were in was not the world that he was in" ("Soldier's Home") and "men will not understand us and ... [they will] push us aside; ... the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into ruin"(All Quiet on the Western Front 294). The similarity between men on both sides of the war reveals the universal result of war - death (if not physical then social or emotional). When, upon entering the war, Paul Baumer says, " Our early life is cut off from the moment we came here, and that without even lifting a hand" (AQWF 19), he foreshadows the life of the young soldiers who must face war without a choice and whose life pays the ultimate price of victory for his country. But will Paul willingly sacrifice all for sake of his country? Through the griping battle scenes and the loss of friends to returning home to a "foreign country," All Quiet on the Western Front reveals the struggles of not only soldiers but of ordinary men forced to fight a battle against other men: "...for the first time, I see you are a man like me... Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us... forgive me comrade; how could you be my enemy?" (All Quiet On the Western Front 223) Remarque's personal experience in the war and his realization of the terror that actually occurs - man killing man - reveals the necessity of counting the cost of war and maintaining peace whenever possible. This is what we face today, and the question remains - have we learned from the past, or do we continue to tread upon the same course that leads us to destruction? It is this grim realization that caused his book to be banned and burned by the Nazi's and spread acclaim throughout the rest of the world. Spreading the truth of the real tragedy of war opened people's eyes to the reality that faced those condemned to die - a reality that faces everyone and is the same for everyone in the midst of war ... a reality that is no respecter of persons and takes all it can - a reality called death. ## Frequently Bought Together - All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel: 1 - The Things They Carried - The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In): A Novel --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1695094-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/1695094-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-06-04*