1. All Quiet on the Western Front
-Erich Maria Remarque
Honors English 10
Tenth Grade
Mrs. Hugus

2. The Author Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970)
Drafted into German Army in 1916
Wounded five times in combat
After war – teacher, stonecutter and editor of sports magazine
Suffered from depression, wrote to cure it
Book published in 1929 – novel sold more than one million copies in Germany alone
Translated into 23 languages
Nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature

3. All Quiet on the Western Front
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
-Erich Maria Remarque

4. War was declared on July 28, 1914
Reasons for the War
Territory Conflicts
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Nationalism
War was declared on July 28, 1914

5. Countries Involved
Triple Alliance – Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria
The Ottoman Empire
Triple Entente Powers – Russia, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium and England
The United States joined the Triple Entente Powers after the sinking of the Lusitania in 1917.
Map Room: Europe at War

6. Facts Greatest and Most Expensive War at that time
65 Million Men Fought
8 Million Died
126,ooo American Deaths
First war to use gas, machine guns and airplanes
Map - Losses in World War One

7. Trench Warfare Men dug trenches on either side of the “Front Line”
They surrounded the trenches with barbed wire and fought from within

9. The War
War Room BBC - History - Western Front animation

10. On the threshold of life, they faced an abyss of death...
The Characters
On the threshold of life, they faced an abyss of death...
The Soldiers in Second Company
Paul Baumer – 19 year old soldier; the protagonist
Albert Kropp – the best thinker in the group
Mueller – a studious soldier
Leer – a ladies’ man
Franz Kemmerich – Paul’s childhood friend
Haie Westhus – a large man; a peat-digger
Detering – a nature lover; a farmer
Tjaden – a skinny soldier; a lock-smith
Stanislaus Katczinsky – the leader of the group; very resourceful
Himmelstoss – the drillmaster
Kantorek – the teacher

11. Vocabulary lorry – truck dust up – fight
skat – German card game morphia – morphine
clink –jail barrage - attack
esprit de corps – group spirit
tommy – British soldier
automata – like a robot
aller – French verb “to go”
camerade – French for friend
gendarmes – military policemen
apoplexy – stroke; severe hemorrhage

12. The Great War - Interactive Timeline
Final Thoughts
Web Sites to Enjoy
The Great War - Interactive Timeline
All Quiet Web Quest
Propaganda Posters
The First World War
A Photo Essay