"All Quiet on the Western Front," a novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

On the desolate battlegrounds of the Western Front during World War I, years of brutal stalemate claimed three million lives for mere inches of ground. In the haunting conclusion of All Quiet on the Western Front, a soldier falls in October 1918, a day so eerily still that the military report simply states, "All quiet on the Western Front.” Despite Remarque's powerful narrative, which captured the futility of war, it could not avert the onset of World War II. “This is not peace; it is an Armistice for twenty years." – Marshal Ferdinand Foch