The Strongest Bond

In English, we recently began reading All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and it’s quite different from anything I’ve read before.  It’s a historical fiction, which I tend to avoid because it involves the word “history” and that has me running for the hills.  The book is focused on war and one of the most prominent ideas expressed so far is this comradeship between the soldiers.  Usually, the love in a book is between two individuals who feel a connection in a romantic way, but this bond between soldiers seems so much stronger.

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