[Quiet Man Cometh]

3. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

This book was banned in Nazi Germany for failing to glorify German warfare, if I recall correctly. The author arguable was exiled over it, though not officially, again, if I remember correctly.

The book offers a veteran's view of warfare in WWI, and is just a fascinating read. It was, for me, the first time I had read anything personal that wasn't from the Allied side of the war (North America, Britain, and France). If shifted my perspective on warfare and the lives of soldiers.

I should read this again. I'd read more of Remarque's books if I were able to find copies in English, or any copies at all. He wrote many. As it is, this and one other have been the only books of his that I've been able to get.