During a bloody battle, 120 of the men in Paul's unit were killed. Paul was given leave and returned home only to find himself very distant from his family as a result of the war. He left in agony knowing that his youth was lost forever. Before returning to his unit, Paul spent a little while at a military camp where he viewed a Russian prisoner of war camp with severe starvation problems and again questioned the values that he had grown up with contrasted to the values while fighting the war. After Paul returned to his unit, they were sent to the front.

Ramarque's purpose in writing this book was to display the hidden costs of the war. The physical aspects of death and wounds did not begin to portray the mental anguish that the soldiers experienced during and after the war. He hoped to show the results of the war on an entire generation; a loss of innocence in life that those who were once soldiers could never replace.

Remarque's message came across very clearly. There were constant tragedies that forced Paul or the other soldiers to question war and become detached from civilian life. After viewing the death of a close friend and recruit whom he had comforted earlier, Paul went home finding that war had i

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