... - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. Before it is possible to delve into the aforementioned themes of the futile agonies of war and the perils of Nationalism, it is necessary to understand the political and social climate in which Remarque was writing. ... Hungarian throne, may have lit the fuse of The Great War, but the domino effect that would follow had been in place for some time prior. As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarki...

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