All Quiet on the Western Front

Enrich Maria Remarque stated in his preface, “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” All Quiet on the Western Front is one of the greatest war …

…most pressing question among his friends is who will inherit his boots. Among the living soldiers, however, Remarque portrays intense bonds of loyalty and friendship that spring up as a result of the shared experience of war. These feelings are the only romanticized element of the novel and are the only emotions that preserve the soldiers humanity. Throughout many scenes in the book, Remarque was able to demonstrate how war destroys and alters the world.