All Quiet on the Western Front

During the First World War, the armies of two generations of William , emperor of Germany are at war in such countries as the east , west Line two and Russia , France , Great Britain ,etc., the war is very tense , fierce. The German government calls upon hospitable student volunteers youngly to join in the battle field with the beautiful slogan , in a certain small city of rear of Germany, a group of young students are under the circumstances that old teacher's health ask chauvinism of Rec to instigate, register to join the army. 19 -year-old Paul thinks as a hero, then under the circumstances that the government propagates so-called " fighting bravely bravely", slogan " safeguarding motherland " wholeheartedly, have volunteered to register too. He triumphant friend have nurse's profit wish , Mu Le ,etc. join the army too , among them one is called Bei Mu's, he suffers from the chest disease , and they are assigned in the same army. The teenagers hoodwinked become a soldier in this way, they part the hometown and relative, go to do a killing job for militarism. Paul and classmates enlisted in the armed forces put into tense military training. They work from dawn to dusk, run back and forth in the loose and also wet and black field, toss about several times, exhaustedly tired, and drillmaster's history asks that will " train them convincedly " then , become " the real German soldier ". These young men idealized all life , war originally, but innocent illusion evaporated now. Soon, the classmates of Paul and he after training are sent to the west line and entered a war. What is it about these young men never know the war, suffer the bombardment with fierce artillery fire once going to the front, under the report of roaring, they are all scared out of one's wits, some have cried, wet trousers of some urine. Fortunately they have met a good monitor Catchings' base , he is an old soldier, looking after these " child soldiers " who have scanty experience of life very much, he comforts them voluntarily, teach the skill that they survive in the battle field. Then Paul and classmates begin to wash and go to the front, kill others' love son, seize others' life. Playing it in the rain, they have the idea that " I do not kill , people kill me too " in arms and cry and " wash , kill ", the failure, retreat down, then attack. In the intension and fear of the height, the shellfish nurse has really gone mad. Of the one fight, triumphant nurse leg that profit wish blow up , lose the young life, Mu Le is poisonned to death by the chemical poison gas. Moreover, the soldiers but also stand the hunger , humidity , disease and terrible weather on the position . Paul's grief profoundly : "Why fight? " Paul is injured too in a fight , sent the field hospital to treat, sanctioned coming back home to visit mother after recovering. The seriously ill mother sees the safe son who comes back being extremely glad . But she raises thin sorrow again in the heart, I wonder whether the son could also come back next time. Paul's mother in order to see too but worry. The day rejoining one's unit will arrive soon, this day, Paul passes by the Alma Mater , see the teachers are still advocating the war , mobilize the students to join the army. Paul detests the war, feels grief and indignation to every gesture of them, but those students are still taking pleasure in this ! After Paul returns to the front , find a group of innocent , inmature " child soldiers " in that year as they have come in the company, there is not many old companion left. Originally, at time when he has a holiday, the companions in the class almost all died, only have a person of old monitor Catchings' base left. And at this moment, Catchings gene army supplies the difficulty, goes out to go to find " child soldier " the thing eaten. Paul runs out of the company, has a lot of trouble to find the old monitor, reunites after long separation, two people are particularly glad . Proper at this moment, a bomber flies here, throws down the bomb, the shell fragment flies to the old monitor, has wounded him. Paul spares no efforts to carry Catchings' base to the medical station , but he has already died. One day, the armistice of both sides, the west line is unusually calm. Paul waiting in the trench has found a beautiful butterfly, but when he climb out of the trench to catch butterflieses, suddenly a sound of rifles sounded, Paul was hit by the stray bullet, he fell down. However, on war communique of the headquarter of front of German army of this day, writing clearly " All Quiet on the Western Front ".