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Original Title:	Der Weg zurück
ISBN:	1931541744 (ISBN13: 9781931541749)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2

The Road Back (All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2) Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	The Road Back (All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #2)
Author	:	Erich Maria Remarque
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	December 1st 2001 by Simon Publications (first published 1931)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. World War I

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The last combats and skirmishes… Peace is nearing… However death still keeps doing its dire work… And the dread doesn’t let go.

“Gas shells!” shouts Willy, springing up.
We are all awake now and listening intently.
Wessling points into the air. “There they are! Wild geese!”
Moving darkly against the drab grey of the clouds is a streak, a wedge, its point steering toward the moon. It cuts across its red disc. The black shadows are plainly visible, an angle of many wings, a column of squalling, strange, wild cries, that loses itself in the distance.
“Off they go,” growls Willy. “Damn it all – if only we could pull out like that! Two wings and away.”

The war is over and the road back home lies ahead… For those who have managed to deceive death and survive.

The wide, grey square is much too big for us. Across it sweeps a bleak November wind smelling of decay and death. We are lined up between the canteen and the guard-room, more space we do not require. The wide, empty square about us wakes woeful memories. There, rank on rank, invisible, stand the dead.

The war is over but its echo is long and sorrowful: horrendous memories, nightmares, madness, nervous breakdowns, psychological traumas, suicides, alienation…

The things here are stronger – the things that differentiate us from one another are too powerful. The common interest is no longer decisive. It has broken up already, and given place to the interest of the individual. Now and then something still will shine through from that other time when we all wore the same rig, but already it is diminished and dim. These others here are still our comrades, and yet our comrades no longer – that is what is so sad. All else went west in the war, but comradeship we did believe, in; now only to find that what death could not do, life is achieving – it is driving us asunder.

The gory wave of war retreats and on the shore of peace crippled bodies, crippled minds, crippled souls and ruined fates are left… And generals are already readying new wars…

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PTSD in post-WWI Germany, the sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front. Episodic, not always linear, first-person narrator although it sometimes feels more like a close third, or even a sort of omniscient first-person when, thanks to Ernst's deep connection with his troubled former comrades, scenes are dramatized that the narrator couldn't know about (friend returning to the trenches alone at night and then shooting himself; how a room feels after another friend cuts open an artery and bleeds

P.E. wrote: "Yes it does, Mike! And how many other stories about or from war veterans!"Yep. Half a century apart and an ocean away, and yet...the same

The last combats and skirmishes Peace is nearing However death still keeps doing its dire work And the dread doesnt let go.Gas shells! shouts Willy, springing up.We are all awake now and listening intently.Wessling points into the air. There they are! Wild geese!Moving darkly against the drab grey of the clouds is a streak, a wedge, its point steering toward the moon. It cuts across its red disc. The black shadows are plainly visible, an angle of many wings, a column of squalling, strange, wild

I read Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front many years ago. I re-read it while travelling through Europe and wanted to read more of his novels. I heard about the Road Back in an article about Kevin Power's brilliant Yellow Birds, a novel about the Gulf War. There are a lot of novels about the First World War, but very few books about the experience of returning soldiers. The Road Back poignantly captures the difficult task returned soldiers face of reintegrating into society after years of

Remarque is clearly a pacifist. But his pacifism isn't the naive hold hands and sing kumbaya kind of Cat Stevens or John Lennon. His is driven by the disillusionment and rage of having experienced the trenches for years and having borne the scars, physical and emotional, of the great war, an exercise that yielded little but laid bare the entire lie of an existence of his generation before him. There was no truth to the fatherland, all ideals of glory and noble sacrifice for the good of the realm

"Yes, it is a hard thing to part, but to come back again, that is sometimes harder."This sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front (AQ) is less famous, but I liked it better. While AQ focused on men in the trenches during WWI and the horror they faced, The Road Back tells of the same men as they return to their old homes.Many of these guys went off to the war while they were still boys, full of piss and vinegar and patriotism. As they lived the horrors described in AQ for 3 or 4 years, everything

I heartily recommend this novel. Here is why:Khizr Kahns speech at the Democratic National Convention and Donald Trumps response to it has focused attention on the concepts of homeland, patriotism, and sacrifice. In these contentious times thoughtful debate about them is otiose. Literature may help us more to understand the concepts. With a book in hand a reader can damp down the discourse on social media and quietly contemplate the writers story. Now, there have been some very good novels and