All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque --Paul Baumer is a young German man enticedd to join the army with his class, by one of their teachers, during World War I. Paul experiences the true horror of trench war, and is forever changed. His senses become acute, and he can tell what sort of artillary is coming by the sound it makes in the air.
Paul obtains leave, and visits his family. Instead of experiencing hope for peacetime, Paul is dismayed by the fact that the things he has experienced has forever made him different than the people he visits at home.
Paul speaks of his friends as though they were family. They are the only people who can truly understand him, because they have survived together through the same series of events. Paul grows to be closer to his friends than his own family.
Remarque's novel has been called the greatest war novel of all time. It provides a horrific account of the realities of war, in a time when war was glorified in the public eye. Above all, the novel is very well written.
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