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The Road Back
by Erich Maria Remarque
The soldiers survive the battlefield but cannot simply return home.
- 1931
The story, briefly
Spoiler-freeGerman veterans return from the First World War to a civilian world that expects them to become ordinary again.
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A restrained companion
The soldiers survive the battlefield but cannot simply return home.
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