![]() World War I was also characterized by trench warfare, in which soldiers on either side lived for months on end in wet, rat- and disease-infested trenches dug into the ground, suffering thousands of lost lives to gain or lose just a few feet of ground. Survival was not a matter of skill but of luck. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. ![]() Now, 85 years after All Quiet on the Western Front was published, Erich Maria. The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I. The war was the first "mechanized war," and the killing machines (machine guns, mortars, etc.) made the war unbelievably brutal and impersonal, shattering for many the idea of war as something heroic, a face-to-face battle between courageous warriors. His first novel was a tragic account of German soldiers in the first world war that has become an anti-war classic. Soon, France and Britain had joined the Russian side, and the catastrophic war began. Austro-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination, and declared war on Serbia in July of 1914, an act that drew Serbia’s ally Russia and Austro-Hungary’s ally Germany into the war. ![]() While the causes of the war were complex and are still debated by historians today, the spark that ignited the conflict was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo in June of 1914. World War I, which began in the summer of 1914 and ended in November of 1918, was fought by many countries but mainly involved Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire fighting against France, Britain, Russia, and eventually America. ![]()
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