"It must have been awful seeing your friends get hurt – and sometimes killed." Hans, 10
‘There is a whistling sound behind us. Shells pass overhead and explode in a sheet of flame a hundred metres away.'
When Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the army, nothing has prepared them for the death and destruction that they witness. Machine guns, huge artillery shells and poison gas create a nightmare world for these young men and their older comrades.
For months and years attack is ...