Erich Maria Remarque · 1956
An account of World War I highlighting the psychological impacts on soldiers.
Dan Carlin notes that it highlights how educators whipped students into a patriotic frenzy before wartime.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“If you go read any number of accounts, but All Quiet on the Western Front is the most famous. They all talk about how their professors, it's funny, it's like the opposite of today's stereotype…”
Why: It highlights how educators whipped students into a patriotic frenzy before wartime.
Dan Carlin, Host on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistorySupernova in the East III
Named without an opinion attached.
“where he didn't have the typical reaction that you get in books like All Quiet on the Western Front, where you get this terrible anti-war feeling from all the waste and all the carnage and all that,…”
Dan Carlin, Host on Dan Carlin's Hardcore HistoryCaesar at Hastings
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Japan at War
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The End Is Always Near
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Discussed together in: Supernova in the East III (Dan Carlin's Hardcore History)
Battle
John A. Lynn
Discussed together in: Caesar at Hastings (Dan Carlin's Hardcore History)
The Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
Discussed together in: Caesar at Hastings (Dan Carlin's Hardcore History)