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The novel is based on the author's real memories of the First World War. When Remarque turned eighteen, he was drafted into the army and a year later was sent to the Western Front. The protagonist of the novel, a young soldier named Paul Boimer, also finds himself in the hell of war. What he sees is not like heroic stories and fairy tales. The realities of war are blood and mud, screams and death, humiliation and courage, survival at the limit of human capabilities. At the end of the war, Paul and his comrades from the front do not fit into the life of peaceful cities. They are the "lost generation", matured teenagers who have been forever changed by the war...