An Awakening Book

Okay, this book I'm reading is amazing but its so sad. It's called All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It has truly awakened me to what war is really like from a soldier's point of view. If you have a weak stomach, please don't read the following excerpt.

"We see men living with their skulls blown open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell-hole; a lance-corporal crawls a mile and a half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him; another goes to the dressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces; we find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death."

It is an incredibly sad book, but the writing is so beautiful. Here's another bit, after the writer's comrades have died.

"The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us--against whom, against whom?"