"All Quiet on the Western Front"

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This paper introduces and analyzes the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Specifically, it gives an historical analysis of the book and looks at the question: "How and why does World War I have an impact on this novel? "All Quiet on the Western Front" is a war novel that brings the true horrors of war home to the reader in an effort to show the futility of war.

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"All Quiet on the Western Front" may be one of the most classic and enduring novels about war, as it relates the story of young, innocent men caught up in the violence and bloody battles of trench warfare at its worst. World War I was the first war to make use of modern weapons, such as the machine gun and the airplane. It was the first war to introduce mass killing on a scale that no one thought possible, and the young men who fought in the war were often permanently wounded, not only physically, but often mentally as well. The doctors called it "shell shock." Today they call it the "Gulf War Syndrome," or the "Vietnam War Syndrome." Men in war see horrific things on and off the battlefield, and they cannot forget them. The First World War began a long line of horrific battles, and the veterans who returned brought the horrors home with them, and often kept them buried deep inside."

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