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Violence
A lot
Eastern Front warfare with deaths; executions depicted; Remarque's characteristic unflinching realism
Language
Barely any
Mild language in translation
Sexual Content
Some
Romantic and sexual content; adult but not explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Wartime drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profound grief for a lost world and the unbearable pathos of love with an expiration date
What this book is about
Ernst Graeber is a young German soldier on the Eastern Front in 1944 who returns home on leave to find his hometown bombed and his parents missing. He falls in love with Elisabeth. He knows he must return to the Front. Remarque's elegiac novel about love in wartime is devastating in its simplicity and its knowledge of what must come.
Notes for sensitive readers
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War violence and executions
Themes of death and loss
Eastern Front WWII content
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