Though they are still only nineteen years old, they are hardened to the realities of the front. Like that lost generation, the reader will be left wondering what was it all for?įour German boys – Albert, Müller, Leer and Paul – have been fighting in the Great War for a while now. The randomness of life and death, the brutal pragmaticism of life at the front, the experiences that rob them of their humanity and will haunt them forever, and their inability to imagine a future for themselves are all powerfully imagined in this short evocative classic novel. Told from the perspective of schoolboys inspired to serve in the First World War by their patriotic zeal, All Quiet on the Western Front provides a panoramic view of the quagmire the boys find themselves in.
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