Reflection

The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque was overall a very good book. It shows a different perspective of war, the perspective of a German soldier. It tells how they fight and soon realize that they are no different from the opposing army. As the soldiers keep fighting they start losing their moral due to the horrors of war. Such as the unsanitary conditions, mass amounts of killing, and all the fighting. The younger soldiers also lose their moral because they believe they hadn’t made a significant impact in society like the older men which have families and careers. This book also shows how the recruits become shel shocked and changed forever by the experience of war.Thus we see this book is a good source of information on the horrors of the front and war from a German soldier's perspective.