All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is a historical war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque. It is set during World War I on the battlefields on the western front of the war, between France and Germany. The book explores the lives and deaths of men who fight the war and how it tears them apart. The story is told through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man who fights for the German army and had joined with a few of his class mates before the war. From the very beginning of the book we see the horrors of war and how it is tearing apart the young men who fight alongside Paul Baumer. The most important idea Erich Maria Remarque wants the reader to know is that war is not romantic. War is evil and inhuman and the pain associated with war both mentally and physically will change the soldiers who fight in it forever. Paul Baumer, the books protagonist shows you the horrors of the War through his eyes and lays out Remarques ideas as Paul’s world falls apart around him and nothing becomes worth...