Many consider Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, to be the greatest war novel of all time.
This is Paul Bäumer's testament, who enlists in the German army with his classmates during World War I. With young zeal, they become soldiers. However, the universe of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught crumbles under the first trench barrage.
Paul remains fast to a single commitment over years of intense horror: to fight against the principle of hatred that pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another... if only he can survive the war.