When Paul speaks about his entire generation "destroyed by the war-, he is talking about the way him and all of the other young soldiers becoming less and less human. ... They all felt like it was a patriotic duty, instead of a career when serving for their army. ... Humans tend to give much thought and compassion for their sick and deceased kin, but as seen in the trench of Europe, all morals have become lost. ... He realizes that she would find him more exciting if he returned to the front instead. ... The reason being is that all Europeans fighting in and around France had to face the s...

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The resulting trench system on the Western Front covered 25,000 miles (enough to encircle the world) but also stretched non-stop from Belgium to Switzerland. ... Front line trenches were separated by an area called no-man's land which could vary in width from a few hundred yards to a mile. ... Almost all of the soldiers suffered from lice. ... Almost all such attacks were miserable failures, with mass slaughter being the result. ... From other groups came the quiet humming of favourite songs and these men knew that they were going over the top in the morning. ...

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All these new weapons were the reasons for the three consequences of the Great War. ... "Even in "quiet" periods a constant harassing fire of a few shells an hour kept the infantry on edge and caused a steady drain of casualties." (Windrow, 21) These quote shows that even in quiet battles that lasted hours, numbers of death slowly rose. ... Some of the lands that were heavily damaged were the three French cities on the Western Front. ... The war involved 70 million combatants, it cost millions of dollars, and most tragic of all, it cost about 9 million lives. ...

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