What profound effects are left on the human mind when, at just 20 years of age, all a person knows is gratuitous, senseless violence that only leads to death and despair? How does a person watch his only friends from school get killed, shiver in fear waiting and wondering when his next meal will come, and survive a multitude of artillery shell bombardments that leave young boys’ body parts dangling from trees and then come back home and pretend to forget everything he’s just been through?
All Quiet on the Western Front
By:
Erich Maria Remarque
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