Have you ever wondered what it was like to go to war and experience the horrors of battle, hand to hand combat, with the deadening and deafening sounds of constant shelling. All Quiet on the Western Front graphically tells us how it was - but interestingly it wasn't the cries and screams of the injured men that got to the soldiers but the agonising screams of the horses who had to wait for a lull in the fighting to be shot.
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