All Quiet on the Western Front was Written by Erich Maria Remarque. This novel is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with some of his friends into the German army of World War I. These young men became enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress shatters into pieces with the first bombardment in the trenches.

The record of several schoolmates who represent a generation destroyed by the dehumanization of World War I's trench warfare, All Quiet on the Western Front tells of their enlistment in the army at the urging of their teacher, Kantorek, whose wisdom they trusted. Paul Bäumer, a sensitive teenager, serves as central intelligence, the prototypical young infantryman whose youth is snatched away by the brutality