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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
There is an incredible potency to those last few pages - a strange electric anticipation before the world is brought crashing down with the last paragraph. I often think about that lost generation, perhaps even specifically those soldiers from the losing nations; coming home to a country which would now be thrust into economic crisis because of reparations that needed paying. Baümer remarks a lot on how he is unable to see a future for himself after the war. Which I suppose is the point; it took his future from him - and would have continued to- in ways he couldn’t yet comprehend.