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…showed last 75 words of 590 total…throughout both books, All Quiet on the Western Front and A Farewell to Arms. Although the main characters of each book were affected in very different ways, both books portrayed the emotional heartache and physical struggles that the war caused, leaving the men with a sense of unfulfillment and disillusion. Their young lives, which were just beginning to unfold, had already been aged and broken by the cold reality of war, leaving them truly lost.