Timothy Findley's "The Wars" and Erich Remarques "All Quiet on the Western Front".
By Muhammed Khan
Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Timothy Findley's The Wars are considered by many to be two of the best novels ever written on The Great War. The novels revolve around Paul Baumer, a 19-year-old German, and Robert Ross, a 19-year-old Canadian, going off to fight in The War To End All Wars. They find themselves in a nightmare world of trench warfare with mud, smoke, deadly gas, and …
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…try to make sense of it all -meaning the war- for if he tries, he is as good as dead. But before he dies, Paul does make sense of it all. Regardless of whether or not the wars will end, life goes on. Perhaps this is how one makes sense of it all. His generation is destroyed, and he is merely a nameless face amidst a sea of lost souls. And yet, life goes on.
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