Review Of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front

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Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet on the Western Front in order to shed light on World War 1 and in the foreword he claimed, “This book is neither an accusation nor a confession,” (Remarque) The purpose of All Quiet on the Western Front was not to criminalize his country it was written to show the brutality of war and we can see this by the author’s biography, the author’s audience and the author’s description of the war in of itself. Erich Maria Remarque witnessed the war from a perspective not many lived to tell. Erich Maria Remarque, born in Osnabruck, Germany, was drafted into the German army when he was 18 years old, serving 2 years in the army, where he was wounded 5 times before his discharge. After his discharge Remarque began
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