Jeanne F. reviewed on 4/30/2006 + 75 more book reviews

Paul Baumer enlists with his classmates in the German army of WWI. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of work, duty, culture and progress they had been taught breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other, if only he come out of the war alive.

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