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"All Quiet On The Western Front"

The story was told by Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old student, convinced to enlist with the German army by his schoolmaster, Kantorek. Along with many of his friends from school, he is trained under Corporal Katczinsky, a strictly disciplined commander who dislikes Paul because of his "defiance."

When sent to the front, Paul, along with his other friends, made new friendships that would last throughout time. His newly made friend/commander, was a man named Stanislaus Katczinsky. As a man of forty years of age he was an wise old man as well as a friend to the young eighteen and nineteen year old recruits.

After visiting the front for long stretches Paul is given fourteen days of leave where he can visit his ill mother at his own home. After this leave he is sent back to training and then back to the front.

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His trip is lengthened when he discovers that his unit has been reassigned to another area. Finding his unit, he reunites with his friends and joins up with them again in the war efforts.

While searching in "no man's land," Paul is confined to a shell hole for a long night. During this night a French soldier falls in the hole and Paul stabs him. The hours to come are very hard for Paul as he comforts and waits for the Frenchman to die.

Paul's group has a stroke of luck when they were assigned to defend a village. Since no inhabitants were left they were able to go through the houses to take and use whatever they wanted. One day the French came and began shooting the village. While evacuating Paul and his friend Albert Kropp were injured by gunshot wounds. They were bandaged up and sent...