“The unprecedented nature of the trench warfare in World War I created a communal experience. As the French and British soldiers suffered from being sitting targets, so too did the Germans. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” may have been written by a German from a German infantryman’s perspective, but it captures all of the existential terror faced by the men who fought in the Great War.”
Masterpiece Section
client: The Wall Street Journal