The protagonist of All Quiet on the Western Front is a young German soldier, Paul Baumer. I was a teenager when I first read Erich Maria Remarque’s illuminating and disturbing World War I novel, a few years younger than Baumer, a 20 year old when he returns home from the front on 2-week leave. I am reading this book again, so many years later. We have followed Baumer to his mother’s home, having witnessed the…

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