NOTABLE WAR BOOK
"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT'
': GERMAN SOLDIER'S FRENCH -' WIFE '■■'.' ' United Service. LONDON, 26th April. Herr Erich Maria Remarque's book, "All Quiet on the Western Front," to which Sir lan Hamilton referred in his speech at the' Gallipoli Day. dinner, | had a remarkable run,' a quarter of a million copies being sold in Germany in six weeks. An admirable English translation, by an Australian, Mr. A, H. Wheen, has been widely read and roviewed in Britain. Eemarkue was an eighteen r year-old schoolboy who volunteered with his entire class and served for the duration of the war. Ho saw his schoolmates slain one by one. The book is a stark yet gripping autobiographical .record of the agonies of a German private soldier's trench life. It sometimes is. revolting and coarse, its simplicity carrying the stamp of truth in every lino,
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 9
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143NOTABLE WAR BOOK Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 96, 27 April 1929, Page 9
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