This is the testament of Paul Baumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of work, duty, culture and progess they had been taught breaks into pieces under the first bombardment of the trenches.
Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms agasint each other, if only he can come out of the war liave.
Source: Ballantyne Books, 1982
