Remarque in the first pages of his book All Quiet on the Western Front summarises the theme of his entire text by dedicating it to “a generation that was destroyed by the war – even those who survived the shelling”. This text is the tragic account of a young man, and the other millions of young men killed or emotionally and mentally shattered by World War I.
The novel is brutally honest and is told from the unique first-person viewpoint of a young German soldier, Paul Baumer. From the first hand accounts of Remarque, who served in the war, Baumer’s depiction of the horrors and degradations of war, and the physical, sp
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