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All Quiet on the Western Front illustrates the destruction of an entire generation of men. Erich Maria Remarque shows using the experiences of Paul Baumer and his comrades that during the Great War, life ends even if you can escape death. Those soldiers who lived through wartime, felt alienated from their former societies. This is result of a new sense of values amongst the men at war. Those at home were concerned with the outcome …

…generation that fought in the trenches. It does so without neither bias nor prejudice, and clearly illustrates the pain and sorrow felt amongst all combatants on both sides of no mans land. Betrayal and alienation are running themes of the novel, and are expressed through the story of Paul Baumer. The novel was written to tell the story of an entire generation of men, who fought and died needlessly, in the name of their country.