... army, Paul and his friends trained under a cruel Corporal Himmelstoss, a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul and his friends. He sends them to the front line to face the enemy. Blood and death become a part of their everyday life. Therefore, Paul and his friends had come to the conclusion that ... the ideals of patriotism taught by their teacher Kantorek, were just flowery words. When Paul and his friends were sent to the front, he made a new friendship with his commander, Stanislaus Katczinsky. Paul believed in "Kat" and in anything he said or done. Kat was resourceful ......

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... did not enlist. Even in schools the teachers were teaching kids the glory of war all the while leaving out the true horror of life at the front. The movie All Quiet on the Western Front tells the story of a young German named Paul Baumer. In the beginning of the movie Paul is an naive student who has been taught all his ... forced to confront Franz's mother and tell her the sad news of her son's demise. During one of the German attacks back at the front, Paul gets separated from his group and is left stranded behind enemy lines. When a French soldier jumps into the trench he is hiding i...

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All Quiet on the Western Front - Essay All Quiet on the Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel that takes you through the life of a soldier in World War I. Remarque is accurately able to portray the many stresses soldiers ... Paul returns from leave he is soon caught in a shell hole during the attack. Here, he is forced to kill a Frenchman who jumps into the trench while attacking the German lines. Paul is horrified at his action. He thinks, "This is the first time I have killed with my hands, whom I can see close at hand, whose death is my doing" ... (193). The war and...

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All quiet on the western front, originally a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Now can be seen as a movie. They have similarities and differences, but they both give us the same idea of the war as a fatal ... order to survive. The scene in the novel which I think was the most significant is the scene when Paul killed Gerard Duval. Paul was in shell-hole behind the enemy lines. He had his dagger out waiting to kill anyone who jumps in. Suddenly a French soldier jumps in. Paul then stabs him. They stay in the shell-hole till the morning ... ...

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... Antwerp for a few more days before they would send some reinforcements. However, hardly any troops arrived, causing the Belgians to lose control of Antwerp. Since the northern part of the front lines were not in trench warfare yet, both sides saw that it would be an excellent chance to attack the enemy's flank. The Allies and Germans saw a grand opportunity to attack ... flood covered the last ten miles of trenches in the north, and later demonstrated an obstruction to the movement of allied troops and equipment. The main attack was on the front lines south of La Basée Canal, where the...

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... this was to be broken. By the start of 1915 new and innovative ideas were being made by Allies and the Germans to break the lines of the Western Front, in the hope that one of the sides could gain an "edge" upon the other. One of the first revolutionary weapons of the ... to induce a violent fit of sneezing. Three months later, on 31 January 1915, the Germans deployed tear gas for the first time on the Eastern Front. Fired in liquid form contained in 15 cm howitzer shells against the Russians at Bolimov, the new experiment proved unsuccessful, with the tear gas liquid failing ... (alt...

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... told about a possible German gas attack but it failed to provide any information or means of defence to the soldiers who were already on the front lines. A cloud of strange, green smoke rolling towards the Canadian and French-Algerian trenches made the French-Algerian troops panic and flee from the trench. ... 1914. It was finally decided that the British forces would attack at the Ypres front as part of the three phase attack. On July 18, the British and French artillery started a massive barrage on the German lines. On July 31, an attack was planned to take place. The battle itself .....

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... World War, was trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the main reasons so many men died. It was a ruthless system of warfare, in which lines and lines of men were repeatedly mowed down, one after the other. Life in the trenches, on the daily, was filled with horror, and death. Death was ... in the trenches as a consequence of a precisely aimed sniper's bullet. It has been estimated that up to one third of allied casualties on the Western Front were actually sustained in the trenches. Aside from enemy injuries, disease wrought a heavy toll. The trenches were also a place full of diseas...

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... almost any price. The Russians ally Rumania had collapsed. .In March 1918, the Germans began a sweeping assault which saw them break through Allied lines. They swept forward, captured thousands of prisoners and came within striking distance of Paris. But by November of the same year, the asked for ... and had captured 1,100 artillery cannons. But they moved so quickly, breaking through trench after trench and speeding deep into Allied territory that their supply lines could not keep up. Artillery support was left behind, and a huge salient was created, plunging into France. Eventually, ...

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... Also just as important were the troops from African nations that fought with the Allies not only in Africa but also in Europe along the Western Front. Regiments from Algeria were the most common in Europe, but also regiments from Morocco, Senegal and others were found in smaller degrees. While Algerians were ... reason the French Army was so desperate to have these men fighting was due to the massive casualties that they were taking all over the Western Front not to mention as a result of battles like Verdun. The idea of conscription was not popular at all in the French colonies. In fac...

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... to overpower them by sending in more and more men. All this led to was an abundance of casualties. As the attacks went on, the Western front became strewn with decaying bodies and the remains of shells. In 1916, the French and British forces decided to launch an allied attack on the German's ... along the Western, Eastern, and Italian fronts. The Somme was chosen for the Western front. The allied plan of the French and British was changed when the German's decided to set their battlefield on the edge of Verdun. Verdun was a very ... neared the end of June, they were ready for the first m...

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... still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. Both the novel All Quiet On the Western Front and the poem "The Man He Killed" help to portray the image of the effects and feelings of warfare. In the novel All Quiet On ... torturous misfortunes of war. Through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man shipped off to fight, a story is told of hopelessness and desperation on the front lines of WWI. As Baumer experiences starvation and injury among other hardships, the reader begins to comprehend how tragic a war really is. Once Baumer arrives, he ...

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... that trench warfare favoured the defender and not the attacker, even armed with this knowledge, all faith was put into preliminary bombing the enemy lines before any major offensive. This tactic rarely worked as fortifications were built to withstand such intense bombing, as well in the case of the Allied ... begin. The expectation of the bombardment was too completely knock out German trenches, enabling allied troops to cross no mans land and capture the German front lines. Not only did these expectations fall short, but also ten minutes before the troops were to go over the top, a mine...

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... spread from the Swiss border to Belgium totaling about 25,000 miles. For three years, this line of trenches that became known as the Western Front never moved more than about 5 miles between the sides. The Germans were the first to use trenches. General Falkenhayn wanted to hold off ... offensive strategy. These military actions were known as attacks. Attacks usually involved a division of men (16,000), and were used to break the enemy lines. Offensives were the defensive military actions used to hold their position (what the trenches were first used for). During these attacks and offens...

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... value of the fort to the French people and hoped that's the attack would draw in major portions of the French army from throughout the entire front. Falkenhayen appointed the commander of the German 5th Army, Crown Prince Wilhelm, to take the French salient. Wilhelm proposed to attack from two sides along ... , Wilhelm hoped to greatly reduce the number of defenders before the German infantry advanced. By February 24, the Germans had managed to take the first two lines of trenches ahead of the fort and as a result the commander of the French forces, Langle de Cary, was replaced by Genera...

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... of men have escaped it's shells, were destroyed by war..." (Remarque). All Quiet on the Western Front is a gruesome film displaying the soldiers impact during World War I. This film goes beyond enemy lines into Germany's front in a rigorous battle of gruesome violence. World War I's trench warfare dehumanized young soldiers and had a ... carnage and gore. Portraying the evil side of war and never glorifying the battles, demonstrating the real emotion during war. All Quiet on the Western Front does not portray W.W.I as a romantic picture of glory, but more as an unromantic fearful experie...

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... were dominated by the killing power of the weapon. The battle of Somme utterly demonstrates the effectiveness of this weapon. On 1 Jul 1916 an attack was launched on a 30 kilometer front north on the Somme river. It was a joint attack from the French and the British. The French Commander in Chief Joffre planed the attack as an attack of attrition with ... slowed the French looked up to see the Germans had reached there barbed wire. They immediately opened fire with there machine guns. The weapon tore large holes in the German lines. In one location the artillery fire opened a hole in th...

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... the novel, Remarque maintains that "a generation of men ... were destroyed by the war" (Remarque, All Quiet Preface). Indeed, in All Quiet on the Western Front, the meaning of language itself is, to a great extent, destroyed. Early in the novel, Baumer notes how his elders had been facile with words prior to ... he visits his home town. This leave is disastrous for Baumer because he realizes that he can not communicate with the people on the home front because of his military experiences and their limited, or nonexistent, understanding of the war. When he first enters his house, for exam...

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... island, because everybody relies on another person, another piece of the continent, to be able to survive. Essay # 5 While reading All Quiet on the Western Front, many passages from the poems we read popped into my mind. The Gerard Duval scene from All Quiet immediately brought back memories from The Man He Killed. Both ... because each had to "cheat" on their old, peaceful lives and get caught up in the affair of war and destruction. All Quiet on the Western Front touches many issues that are expressed by anyone who has been affected by war. Essay # 6 There is much advice to be offered ...

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... the novel in several ways. Faulks presents the horrors of war through the lives of the soldiers and their experiences whilst fighting on the western front. The horrors themselves were something that the soldiers had to cope with whilst keeping focus on fighting the opposition, different characters responded to these ... and you can interpret through his expression, that he is passionate about war. 'If I didn't have this curiosity, I would walk into enemy lines and let myself be killed, I would blow my own head off with these grenades.' Stephen feels that the concept of war now is n...

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The novel All Quiet on the Western Front is a war story of the experiences that Paul Baumer encounters while living through the harsh habitat and situations that he and his close friends are put into. The author, Erich ... Maria Ramarque, makes the reader feel in the action as he describes in depth the countless brushes with death that Baumer goes through while being on the front line in World War 1. It begins when Baumer and a group of his friends and classmates have enlisted in the German Army. As the book begins we are already part of ... order to save and protect the land that they calle...

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... Verdun so the Battle of the Somme quickly became a Brittish operation. The two men that lead Brittan would be Douglas Haig and Henry Rawlison. Despit Haig's expirence on the Western Front he showed little statigie when planning the attack of the Somme. The two men wanted to go with an attack that would consist of limited attacks and fast-moving, well ... protected infantry. That approach was quickly abandond in favor of a 20 mile area where the infantry moved in slow rigid lines, but that made them easy targets for the German's machine guns. The first day prooved to be a bloody failure....

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... . He had all 4 Canadian divisions attacking in line, arrayed in 2 numerical order from south to north. Their objective was to try and reach code named Black, Blue, Red and Brown lines.(Goodspeed, 85). The 1st division was at the German first line before the Germans had even climbed out of their dugouts. At the second trench there was some resistance but ... that would change Canada forever. Furthermore the emotional effects would dramatically alter the Canadians. The Vimy battle had convinced the Canadians that they were the finest troops of the Canadian front. They had a pride, a confid...

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