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all quiet on the western front. Although it may owe some- thing to the Civil War slogan all quiet on the potomac, this phrase became well known in World War I because it was often used in communiqués from the western front, a 600-mile battle line that ran from Switzerland to the English Channel and was in reality far from quiet just with the moans of the wounded and dying. The most famous use of the words is in the title of Erich Maria Remarque’s great antiwar novel, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). |