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World Book Encyclopedia
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Britannica Schools
Britannica School covers the core subject areas of English, Maths, Science and History. Interactive lessons, activities, games, stories, worksheets, manipulatives, study guides and research tools.

Introduction

In 1914 Paul Bäumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a calm October day in 1918, only a few weeks before the Armistice, Paul will be the last of them to be killed. In All Quiet on the Western Front he tells their story.
A few years after it was published in 1929 the Nazis would denounce and publicly burn Remarque'snovel for insulting the heroic German army - in other words, for 'telling it like it was' for the common soldier on the front line where any notions of glory and national destiny were soon blasted away by the dehumanizing horror of modern warfare.

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-9781841593869

Penguin. (n.d.) All Quiet on the Western Front. Retrieved from

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All Quiet on The Western Front - 1979 Movie

Laemmie, C. (Producer). Milestone, L. (1930). All Quiet on The Western Front. [MotionPicture]. US:Universal Studios.

All Quiet on The Western Front - Weebly

Weebly. (n.d.). All Quiet on the Western Front. Weebly. Retrieved July 29, 2024, from https://explainallquietonthewesternfront.weebly.com/full-text.html
All Quiet on the Western Front, novel by German writer Erich Maria Remarque, published in 1929 as Im Westen nichts Neues and in the United States as All Quiet on the Western Front. An antiwar novel set during World War I, it relies on Remarque’s personal experience in the war to depict the era’s broader disillusionment. The book is an account of Paul Baumer’s experiences in battle and his short career as a soldier, and it is primarily concerned with the effect of war on young men.

Conscientious Objectors WW 1

Imperial War Museum. (2022) Voices of the World War: Conscientious Objection. Retrieved from https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-conscientious-objection
Around 16,000 men refused to take up arms or fight during the First World War for any number of religious, moral, ethical or political reasons. They were known as conscientious objectors. Godfrey Buxton found that some of his fellow Christians questioned the war from the outset.

One met people who didn’t quite know which way to go and some who felt very strongly for religious reasons – others for political reasons – that they wouldn’t take part. I think really at that stage I was so young that I wasn’t really thinking it through. There were some who were purely political conscientious objectors. But from the Christian point of view I think people took that phrase ‘Thou Shalt not Kill’. And therefore the matter of ‘kill’ did seem to be final to some people.

Tony Robinson's World War I: The Air Force

Discovery UK. (1 December, 2014). Tony Robinson's World War I: The Air Force. [Television Broadcast]. youtube.com. Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y2Ctec5HL0&list=PLLb4Aujw26R6ztTN6NM1OKjT9Sfd25bFJ

Penguin - All Quiet on The Western Front

Penguin.(n.d.). All Quiet on the Western Front. Retrieved from https://www.penguin.com.au/books/all-quiet-on-the-western-front-9781841593869
As the centenary of the 1918 Armistice approaches, a hardcover edition of the most famous novel to come out of World War I, drawing on the author's personal experience of trench warfare as a young conscript in the German army.

Spark Notes - Study Guide

Sparknotes. (2022). All Quiet on the Western Front. Retrieved from https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/allquiet/
Chapter One opens with Paul Bäumer, the narrator, and the other members of the Second Company, a unit of German soldiers fighting during World War I, resting after being relieved from the front lines. They have spent the last two weeks at the front in constant battle. Out of a company originally comprised of 150 men, only eighty returned after a heavy attack on the last day.

World War 1

2024, A&E Television Networks, LLC. (2024). World War I: Causes and Timeline: History. Retrieved July 29, 2024, from https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i
World War I pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. New military technology resulted in unprecedented carnage. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

First World War

AWM.gov.au. (2022). First World War 1914-18. Retrieved from https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/atwar/first-world-war
Australia’s involvement in the First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war on 4 August 1914, and both Prime Minister Joseph Cook and Opposition Leader Andrew Fisher, who were in the midst of an election campaign, pledged full support for Britain. The outbreak of war was greeted in Australia, as in many other places, with great enthusiasm.