All quiet on the Western Front

“He knows that his pleasure at a beautiful landscape, at the smell of good food, will forever be coloured by what the landscape looked like in the trenches, by the food that was cooked in the trenches.” Read more...

The best books on War

Cécile Fabre, Philosopher

“It’s evocative because it’s the First World War seen through German eyes…All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of a German private soldier on the front line and it’s a very moving account of the deprivation and the hardship he goes through, showing us that innocent people were thrown into uniform and told to serve whether they liked it or not.” Read more...

Jeffrey Archer on Bestsellers

Jeffrey Archer, Novelist