Significant Passage
The following passage is important to the book because it perfectly describes the suffering and torture caused by war. "Two firing squads marched to the center of the square, faced either way and fired till no more of the targets stood upright. Six hundred and twelve bodies were identified and buried, including Felix Fivet, aged three weeks" (The Guns of August). This quote is so important to the book because it reveals so much about the horrors of war and the theme of the book. War ruins and takes lives of not only soldiers but families of soldiers as well because of all of the death and all of the hardship that soldiers go through day in day out. War leaves such a heavy toll on soldiers because of hardships such as not having enough food or shelter and constantly being around death and seeing men that they have trained and fought with die next to them. War causes nothing but suffering and misery for all involved throughout the warring nations.