I read the book as a teenager but seeing it in live-action was brutal. You forget that soldiers used gas and fucking flamethrowers on people, and they did it so their ruling class can get even wealthier.
Remembering that the causes of that war were about European empires trying to carve up Germany because capital had reached its zenith under the pre-war status quo unless it acquired new markets and territories to expand into was just eye-opening.
:eu-cool: :germany-cool: :france-cool:
:ukkk:
If I remember the book, and it's been twenty years so bear with me, it's really about the experiences of a half dozen teenagers and how much of a completely senseless, horrific, unmitigated, and unjustifiable nightmare war is.