All Quiet On The Western Front

The book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque is set in a time of sorrow and discovery. WW1 bore some of the first advanced weaponry because of the allies necessity for greater protection from the enemies. That was a huge leap into what was to come in later wars as this artillery began to evolve into the complex ordnance of today. So much new weaponry was being developed and it was the Germans, who are the main focus in the book, who were ahead in developing tactics and technology for war. Much of the new ordnance from WW1 were featured in "All Quiet on the Western Front" including tear gas, machine guns, and much more. Besides the depiction of the weaponry produced in WW1, the author also elucidates the fact that the Germans were not as bad as history has read them to be. The history books of America oppose any ideas of Germans being virtuous at all in WW1, but the author lays open the notion that the Germans were feeling just as broken down and despaired about the war as our soldiers were. A new light is shed on the thoughts that the Allies had about the Central Powers when reading this book. In doing this the author effectively helps the reader to see both sides of the story. World War Two was the sixth deadliest war in human history and that was clearly shown throughout the book as the author portrayed the battle field as a bloody mess of death and people dying everywhere with bodies in so many places. Paul, the protagonist of the story, was constantly in a situation where people were dying near or around him. That helped make clear to the reader that WW1 was in fact a very deadly war and that is wasn't only the Allies side of the war that was being devastated by the amount of people dying. The new weapons of WW1 made the casualties of war rise. Even in the trenches, Paul's fellow soldiers got hurt by the new rockets and a stray bullet here and there. The most prominent weapons when first produced in the war was chlorine,