All Quiet on the Western Front One of the best war novels that is read by thousands of high school students each year is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. This story depicts the life as a solider in the German Army fighting against the Central Powers. The solider, Paul Bäumer tell us of the fun he indures along with the hardships of war demonstrating an antiwar theme. The scene in …showed first 75 words of 541 total…

…showed last 75 words of 541 total…hand of the other army hoping that they wouldn't shoot them before they got a chance to kill the people that were going to kill them. This shows us how brutal this war was and how brutal war actually is. Remarque uses an ironic tone to prove to us how brutal war is, and how it doesn't care about the lives it takes, proving this at the end of the novel when Paul himself dies.