After two weeks of fighting, Paul’s company is given a rest but only return with 80 of 150 men. The men are able to eat enough food to satisfy themselves, which rarely happens due to small ration sizes, due to the shrinking size of the company. I am sure most of the men, if not all, must have been thinking whether they were going to die next. I find the dramatically shrinking size of the company to be depressing. …show more content…
They are forced by artillery to move into a graveyard where the ground moves so much that the bodies of the dead begin to emerge from their graves. Later on during a battle, they are attacked by charging Allied forces. It was extremely gruesome, men are blown to pieces and corpses are eaten by enormous rats. The graphic detail that Remarque goes into truly drives home his point of the horrors of war. He also shows how soldiers resort to primal instincts to survive in saying that you would throw a bomb at your own father if he came in with the