All Quiet on the Western FrontThe greatest novel about the First World War and an international bestseller. In the trenches, one by one the boys begin to fall In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh faced and idealistic, are goaded by their chauvinistic schoolteacher to troop off to the "glorious war". With the fore and patriotism of youth they sign up. Their disenchantment begins during the brutal basic training and then, as they board the train to the front, they see the