And Quiet Flows the Don.
Geoffrey Wain tries to blame a military defeat in this war on his nephew Neil Macrae in HughMacLennan's novel Barometer Rising. Stepan Astakhov's life is saved during this war by his rival,the Cossack Gregor Melekhov, in Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don. Theaftermath of this conflict is depicted in The Road Back, a sequel to a novel which also features thecharacter Tjaden. In that novel, the schoolmaster (*) Kantorek encourages his students to fight in thiswar, where they meet the scheming corporal Himmelstoss. Kemmerich and Kat also die in that novel,which ends with the death of Paul Baumer. For 10 points, name this conflict, the setting of Erich MariaRemarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.
Geoffrey Wain tries to blame a military defeat in this war on his nephew Neil Macrae in HughMacLennan's novel Barometer Rising.
World War I [or the Great War; or the first World War]