<P>Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany’s Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become and the inscrutable world to which he must return he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war’s final hours.</P><P><I>All Quiet on the Western Front</I> is one of the greatest war novels of all time an eloquent expression of the futility hopelessness and irreparable losses of war.</P>