ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT /
At head of title: Classics illustrated featuring Stories by the World's Greatest Authors.
by Erich Maria Remarqu ; Adaptation: Kenneth W. Fitch ; Illustrated by: Maurice del Bourgo.
- 48 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Classics illustrated ; No. 56 .
- Classics illustrated ; No. 56 .
A graphic novelization of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues.
Written in memory of a generation of young men who arrived at the front fresh from the schoolroom, a generation utterly devasted by war, because the few that survived were left unfit for peace; at once tender and brutal, immediate and profound - All Quiet on the Western Front is a testament to the pity, horror and waste of the First World War, and a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks. "This book is intended neither as an accusation nor as a confession, but simply as an attempt to give an account of a generation that was destroyed by the war - even those of it who survived the shelling."