All Quiet on the Western Front

Now as much as then, a fiercely anti war book. I bet modern war mongers would find a way to read it and pretend it does not apply to them, that modern wars are better, simpler, cleaner, but every human with a shred of empathy can tell that it's a lie. Today's armies still send their young to a futile, cruel, meaningless death, no matter how much we tell ourselves otherwise. Herein lies both the brilliance and the deep sadness of Remarque's book, that it has not aged in a hundred years, and probably never will.