All Quiet on the Western FrontAs the centenary of the 1918 Armistice approaches, a hardcover edition of the most famous novel to come out of World War I, drawing on the author's personal experience of trench warfare as a young conscript in the German army. In 1914 Paul B umer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to