A time to love and a time to dieNovel of World War II in which the hero fights the Russians, returns home and is married, goes back to the battlefield and is killed. |
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User Review - AliceAnna - LibraryThingExcellent. This is the first time I've read a novel from the viewpoint of a German soldier toward the end of WWII. Really good look at what a typical foot soldier was most likely thinking and going ... Read full review
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This book is so compelling that I got it out of the library every decade of the last five and read it repeatedly. Besides having interesting characters with a sense of reality, Remarque paints in words a memorable histoical landscape in which the main character feels depression, pain and despair, finds love and hope, sees beautiful things but also a terrible brutality, and has his humanity fundamentally challenged. The end of the book challenges values and the horror of war that corrodes the spirit. It is an amazing book.
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| Title | A time to love and a time to die |
| Author | Erich Maria Remarque |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 24, 2008 |
| Length | 378 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary World War, 1939-1945 |
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