During World War I, nineteen-year-old Paul Boymer was inspired by "patriotism" and volunteered with his classmates to join the army, but the cruelty of war and military life was beyond imagination. In boot camps, they were forced to abandon their former beliefs in knowledge and freedom and undergo a radical transformation. After a short training, the recruits were sent to fight on the front line, and all they saw and heard was cruelty: rats and lice in the trenches; fierce infectious diseases threatened the lives of every soldier; comrades were killed one by one or wounded and sent to the field hospital; the field hospital was poorly equipped, the medicine was lacking, and the mortality rate of the wounded was extremely high.
Paul returned home from vacation to find that Germany was still immersed in heroic fantasies about war, ordinary people could not imagine the disasters suffered by soldiers on the front line, he was completely out of touch with his former life, and his feelings were incomprehensible. Paul returns to the front, at a time when the war is getting more and more fierce, and the future is confused...
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