All Quiet on the Western Front

Significance of Rifles/Machine Guns

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The basic weapons handled by soldiers on the front lines, rifles and machine guns are utilized at both distances and during hand-to-hand combat. They are particularly deadly against massed infantry assaults. For example, Paul recounts how heavy German defensive fire from machine guns mows down an entire row of French soldiers.