All Quiet on the western front

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…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…up their own lives and freedom to preserve the freedoms of their fellow countrymen. War. It just does not make sense. This perception is seen in the book where, hundreds of thousands of young men gave up their lives for a fight that did not involve them. They died, in pain and agony, not realizing the reason they were fighting. For this reason war, both in the book and real life, does not make sense.