Classics Illustrated #95 All Quiet Western Front Hrn 96 Fr/G 1.5 First –

To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. In this new adaptation, nearly a century later, Edward Berger draws on a fuller understanding of German history. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for the first edition of All Quiet on the Western Front. It reminds us what happens if we fail to keep the beast at bay. All Quiet on the Western Front is faithful to the book because it is not a slavish imitation. With the reluctant support of moderate conservatives in 1933, they outvoted social democrats to endow Adolf Hitler with absolute authority. Only a nation so deluded with its own sense of exceptionalism that it has paved the way for its own demise. Remarque's theme is never for one moment dimmed, and the spirit is not travestied.

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All Quiet On The Western Front First Edition

There have been a few exceptions like Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, but Goering's Seeschlacht, a lyrical drama of the Jutland Battle and a first faint premonition of the German Revolution; Sorge's imaginative play Der Bettler, Kantorowicz's magnificent biography of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II, Rilke's Duineser Elegien, the verse of Bert Brecht – these, and others, still await the English translator. Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front avoids drawing direct connections to the Nazi regime, but he admits, "everything in the film is imbued with my knowledge of Nazis and of what we know will come afterwards. That a book so great, so profound and sombre should become so popular does credit to the German reading public. From start to finish the film remains true to its theme – of young lives wasted by war before they had reached any accomplishment. First Edition Signed. Many Englishmen confronted with the sentimental, mischievous glorification of war that is still too common in films have been deeply thankful to Herr Remarque for his truthful description and for the film version of his novel. This is a live auction, and the buyer is advised to inspect the items in person during the week prior to the auction.

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They are now apparently able by breaking the peace to secure the prohibition of the All Quiet film, and presumably of any future film to which they happen to object. Learn more in our Privacy Policy., Help Center, and Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy. Basis for the Academy Award-winning 1930 film that won Best Picture and Best Director for Lewis Milestone. Classics Illustrated #113 The Fourty-Five Guardsmen HRN 114 G/VG 3. The world's largest search engine for old, rare & second-hand books. Remember that the dust jacket is an important part of any book, and so books without their original dust jackets typically have less value. They are all war books. It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar. The world has progressed, we tell ourselves. Signed copies of this historical work are difficult to find. Below is the first American edition.

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A: Shipping to any US address is only $5. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. It has had an immense success in Germany.

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First edition in English of this landmark novel of the 20th century. We will do our best to accommodate you at the live auction. Baumer starts telling his story in 1917 after half of his company has been wiped out, but in flashbacks he introduces his comrades in arms as he met them in school or during the early days of the war. It will shock the supersensitive by its outspokenness; it will leave no reader unmoved" (New York Times Book Review). Undeterred, the regime arrested his sister. Biden Unlikely to Attend King Charles' Coronation.

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We make cash offers for all comics and graphic novels. The Nazis relentlessly targeted the book as well. In fact, the specter of Nazism has always haunted the margins of this story. The film ends with the first moments of peace. While it made for an impressive war movie about the horrors of World War I, it was a poor homage to the literary bestseller. Despite these shortcomings, the material culture (weapons, uniforms, etc. ) You can find more information in our. It takes some time before the film reaches the point at which the book opens, but all the time it is building up the characters and the war which engulfs those characters. At the front, Paul's friends are wounded and killed one by one, including his older friend and mentor, Katczinsky.