SHAW GEORGE BERNARD: (1856-1950) Irish Playwright, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1925. A good A.N., unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. (c.1929/30?). At the head of the page appears a series of typed questions submitted to Shaw, in full, 'Would you say that Remarque's book "All Quiet on the Western Front" has helped to discourage future wars? Why or why not? Can you think of any other war book or war play to which your remarks might apply?' Shaw has responded beneath, stating, in full, 'I have not read All Quiet. If books could stop war we should not have had one for the last thousand years.' About EX

 

Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, describing the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during World War I, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front was first published in a German newspaper in November & December 1928 and in book form in January 1929.