All Quiet on the Western Front

About the book

The classic story of Paul Baumer, a young man who enlists with his classmates in the German Army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the worldview of work, duty, culture and progress that they have been carefully taught breaks down under the harsh realities of life in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single principle: to fight against the hate that pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another, if only he can survive the war.