Claims Enrich Remarque's 'Epigraph Of War'

“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war” Claims Enrich Remarques’s in the epigraph of the novel. This quote summarizes the novel and the terrorizing experience soldiers encountered during the war. This quotes is significant because it unveils a different perspective of war. War is neither an adventure nor a heroic story of soldiers fighting for their country like how books or movies portrays. It is about soldiers, who encounter death face to face, and the next day is never promised, it’s either kill or be …show more content…
There were several military inventions such as poisonous gas, biplane, machine gun, shells, grenades, zeppelin, tanks etc. The poisonous gas burned the lungs of the victim and resulted in a painful death. The biplane was a plane with two sets of wings that could track soldiers massing for a ground assault. Shells and grenades were probably the two most sought out weapons due to the fact that it can kills several people at once. Technology was really the turning point of the war because the German soldiers were on the bottom end of the innovation caliber. Their technology was not as high tech as their enemies. Also as their enemy technology innovates, the Germans medical innovation is far behind therefore unable to cure soldiers as fast and convenient as possible, and this leads to many soldiers death. For example, Kemmerick slowly died from a light wound, but if their medical staff were technologically innovated, he could have gotten the proper treatment, healed fast, and kept fighting in the war. World War 1 was called “the war to end all war” because it was so destructive that countries around the world did not want such horrific event to take place ever