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Chapter 1
Paul Bäumer and his company are resting behind the lines after two weeks at the front. Half the company is dead.
Chapter 2
Paul reflects on how the war has hollowed out his generation. He and his friends enlisted at eighteen with no real adult life behind them, so the war has nothing to contrast itsel…
Chapter 3
Reinforcements arrive, including raw recruits who look very young. Kat demonstrates his almost supernatural ability to find food, scrounging a meal for the group from nowhere.
Chapter 4
The company is sent to lay wire at the front at night. On the way back, an artillery bombardment traps them in a graveyard.
Chapter 5
The men are behind the lines again. They talk about what they would do if the war ended, and most of them cannot picture a future.
Chapter 6
The company returns to the front for one of the bloodiest stretches in the novel. A major offensive begins, and Paul's unit suffers enormous casualties over several days of fighti…
Chapter 7
Paul gets leave and goes home. He expected relief but finds the opposite: he can't connect with his family, his old room feels foreign, and conversations with civilians about the…
Chapter 8
Paul is sent to a training camp near a prison camp holding Russian POWs. He watches the Russians through the fence and is struck by how ordinary they look.
Chapter 9
Paul is selected to meet the Kaiser, which turns out to be a brief and deflating encounter. Afterward, back at the front, Paul gets separated during a raid and hides in a shell cr…
Chapter 10
Paul and several comrades, including Albert and Tjaden, are assigned to guard an abandoned village and supply depot. They eat well, sleep in real beds, and briefly live like human…
Chapter 11
The war grinds into its final phase. Paul watches his remaining friends die one by one.
Chapter 12
It is October 1918. The armistice is weeks away, but Paul does not know that.
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