The First World War is the first modern war in history in which both sides widely used tanks, planes, poison gas, artillery shells. The bloodiest front in World War One took place in the West, where both sides fought in large networks of trenches. This book “All Quiet on the Western Front” is set in the final stages of the war and is famous for depicting the savagery of the fighting. Trench warfare was often bloody, with soldiers dying in the thousands in useless human wave attacks. Those who survived suffered were horribly disfigured, and their lives would never be the same again. For Paul and his friends, the only good thing about the war is that it brings them together. The people in Paul’s company are company consider themselves comrades
