TOW #10 All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque is a very real and sad book about World War I. This book is a re-telling of the events that the author experienced while fighting with the Germans during World War I. The author explains many of the events through a first person view, and with excruciating detail. The author wrote this book for everyone to read. He did not add in any military jargon in his book, it is easily understandable diction. The author wanted everyone to read his book because he wanted them to know the horrors of war. before this point people did not know what the horrors of modern war could bring. With this book printed after World War I it sent waves of anti-war sentiment running through the people. It was unheard of for the time for people to dread war and for it to have been as brutal as described in the book. I only read up to chapter 7, however during the first section of the book it has already established itself as a sad and emotionally taxing book. In the second chapter of the book the author explains the death of one of his comrades when they were sent up to the front lines of the trench. They were bombarded by many of the French machine guns and soldiers. However Remarque's friend was severely injured on his leg. He explains that he had to take his friend to the medical bay and have see his friend get his leg amputated. The description and imagery the author uses in this part in particular is not censored in the slightest. Since the pain of amputation is too much Remarque's friend dies in the hospital bed and then is moved out onto the floor for the next patient to be accommodated. The doctor in this chapter is also not helpful because he brushes off Remarque's plea for the doctor to come over and help his friend. He just says that it is another death of the many that will come during the war.  I believe that the author was able to, in the first section clearly describe the problems that he had to face during the war.