Imagine how it would feel if an enemy soldier came rushing at you with a grenade in hand. This is the kind of feeling soldiers face, especially for Paul Baumer and his fellow recruits that are sent to the front line in Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque's gripping narrative is told from a German soldier's point of view, and describes the life of a World War I soldier stuck in the grasp of the horrible conditions at the front. It is an atrocious experience, filled with dirt, hunger, and desperation. In Remarque's war novel, the horrors and effects of war on a soldier are illustrated very realistically, and it unquestionably shows that a man's life is changed forever by the gruesome experiences of the battle field.

The horrors of war are so gory and imprint such a deep impression...