The squadron featured in this novel gets its revenge on Himmelstoss, first by beating him up before being sent to the front and later when he proves a coward himself. Among the few things surviving by the end of the story are a pair of boots passed down from Kemmerich to Müller to the narrator, all classmates who left school to fight for Germany in World War I. The tale ends when Paul Baumer is finally killed while reachi
The squadron featured in this novel gets its revenge on Himmelstoss, first by beating him up before being sent to the front and later when he proves a coward himself. Among the few things surviving by the end of the story are a pair of boots passed down from Kemmerich to Müller to the narrator, all classmates who left school to fight for Germany in World War I. The tale ends when Paul Baumer is finally killed while reaching for a butterfly – the newspaper report for that day providing the novel's title. FTP, name this novel by Erich Maria Remarque.
The squadron featured in this novel gets its revenge on Himmelstoss, first by beating him up before being sent to the front and later when he proves a coward himself.
{All Quiet on the Western Front} -OR- {Im Westen nichts Neues}