![]() ![]() ![]() This crucial quality emerges as powerfully in Wheen's version as it does in Brian Murdoch's. Large scale English war novel might go big now.' After more than a decade of virtual silence about the experience of the front, the so-called war boom of 1929-30 saw the publication of canonical prose accounts by Sassoon, Graves, Blunden and Manning. In May 1929 Richard Aldington cabled his American agent to urge 'earliest fall publication Death of a Hero to take advantage of public mood. Worldwide, it remains the best selling work of German literature.Īs often happens, the success of this one book generated a market for others on a similar theme. ![]() Within a year it had been translated into more than 20 languages. Close on 650,000 copies were sold in just over three months. ![]() Like the war that was its subject, the effects exceeded all imagining. PUBLICATION of Im Westen Nichts Neues in January 1929 was preceded by the most intensive bombardment of publicity in the history of German publishing. ![]()
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