Warfare In John Steinbeck's All Quiet On The Western Front

After reading All Quiet on the Western Front, my thought on warfare has changed completely. At first, I thought in 1914, if you were wounded severely, you just had to lie there and no one would try to help you. Now I know that there was many people within your “compound’ that were willing to risk their own lives to save yours. Also, I didn’t think that a medical vehicle was used in 1914-1916, I didn’t think that they were made for that much abuse yet.
I also portrayed that war wasn’t as bad as Paul explained it. I thought that it was just two large armies, in a large battlefield, shooting at each other like in the American Revolution. I didn’t realize that the tactics and the “scene” of the battle changed as much as had. The way Paul described