The document provides extensive statistics on military casualties from World War 1 for various Allied and Central powers. It shows that Russia, France, and Germany suffered the highest numbers of total casualties, each between 6-9 million. It also provides percentages that show over half of all mobilized forces from major participating countries became casualties by the end of the war.
18. One soldier described finding a group of dead bodies while on patrol: "I saw some rats running from under the dead men's greatcoats, enormous rats, fat with human flesh. My heart pounded as we edged towards one of the bodies. His helmet had rolled off. The man displayed a grimacing face, stripped of flesh; the skull bare, the eyes devoured and from the yawning mouth leapt a rat."
19. Introduction to All Quiet on the Western Front : “ This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped the shells, were destroyed by the war.” -Erich Maria Remarque In the chapel of St. Cyr (before it was destroyed during World War II) the memorial tablet to the dead of the Great War bore only a single entry for “the class of 1914.” - Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman What is the Lost Generation ?
