... communicate effectively only with his military comrades. Since the novel is told from the first person point of view, the reader can see how the words Baumer speaks are at variance with his true feelings. In his preface to 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 ... lies, this time in an attempt to shield her from the details of her son's lingering death. Moreover, in this conversation, we see Baumer rejecting yet a...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

... over 3,500 miles of Africa and when the news of the armistice reached him, he had only 4,000 men left . As you can see in the map below, the 3,500 miles of movement that Von Lettow-Vorbeck and his men did in order to keep on fighting against the British and keeping the German flag over the colony is quite obvious and quite astonishing. German East-Africa 1914-1918 Africa ... that fought here or came from here affect the war as a whole. No not really, the significance that these areas played in the grand scheme of things. Had there been no wars at all in the German colonies, it wouldn't ...

• Word Count: 2502
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... the Western Front through out the rest of the war. The First Battle of Ypres was "The Race to the Sea-. The Allies and Germans weren't really concerned about the sea; they were both looking for a way to destroy the enemies' defenses off the front line. The so-called "race- began very slowly. The Allies snuck up the left; while the Germans edged up the right ... The French were unaware of the loss of the 2nd Royal Irish on the 20th, moreover, they didn't know that their 2nd Sherwood Foresters were destroyed until late on the 21st. General De Mitery was informed by his IV corps that the Fr...

• Word Count: 3123
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School