The Road Back
A Novel

The last combats and skirmishes… Peace is nearing… However death still keeps doing its dire work… And the dread doesn’t let go. “Gas shells!” shouts Willy, springing up. We are all awake now and listening intently. Wessling points into the air. “There they are! Wild geese!” Moving darkly against the dra......more

WW1 has come to an end. German soldiers, young and less young, go back home and resume their former lives... supposedly. 1. THE STORY : => A neverending demobilization : Back in Germany, it dawns on the soldiers that their relatives have carried on with their lives during the war, and aditionally, that......more

This book perfectly describes the aimlessness after a war and the state in which people are left. The scars for life and why we have had so many grandparents who can only talk about the war - they never got over it. The lack of care and understanding cuts to the bone.......more

The Road back, although less well known than All Quiet on the Western Front, is just as thought-provoking and, in subtle ways, even more heart breaking. The story begins during the last few days of WWI. As battle rages around them, a group of young German soldiers contemplate what peace will be like......more

The Road Back is a remarkable novel by one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. It has the authenticity and often brutal insight of a man who had personally endured and survived the mechanised slaughter of the First World War. The novel describes the adjustments, frustrations and struggles......more