A Review of

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a vivid portrayal of trench warfare on the French front during World War One. The interesting view taken by the author is that this book is written in a German perspective as opposed to be written in an American, British, or French perspective. In doing that, Remarque gives his readers a completely different view of the war. At the start of the book, the …

…had started in World War One and had accounted for the majority of the fighting on the Western Front. However, I did not know exactly how destructive and gruesome it was, and that the Germans were also victims of war like the Allied soldiers were. This fresh perspective is important for American students if they truly want to find out what the history of those events were, not a one-sided story told in a textbook.