As the centenary of the 1918 Armistice approaches, a hardcover edition of the most famous novel to come out of World War I, drawing on the author's personal experience of trench warfare as a young conscript in the German army.
Erich Maria Remarque was a German author and veteran of the First
World War. He was born 1898 in Osnabr ck, Germany. At the age of 18
he was conscripted into the German army. During his service he was
wounded by shrapnel in the left leg, right arm and neck. Following
the war he worked as a primary school teacher, and later as a
librarian, a journalist and a technical writer.
Among Remarque's published novels were All Quiet on the Western
Front, The Road Back, Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph. His works
were publicly burned by the Nazi German government, and in 1947 he
and his first wife became naturalised citizens of the United
States. Four years earlier, his sister had been executed at the
behest of Hitler's 'People's Court'.
Remarque adapted the book Ten Days to Die, about Hitler's final
days, as a screenplay, and he also wrote for the stage. His last
novel was The Night in Lisbon, published in 1962. During his
lifetime Remarque married twice and had love affairs with the
actresses Hedy Lamarr, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.
The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a
craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language
to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his
touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.
*The New York Times Book Review*
All Quiet is that rare thing, a work of popular modernism.
*Independent*
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