All Quiet on the Western Front

One of modernity’s greatest novels—fully reset with a new introduction by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz History offers few records of war as vivid, haunting, and evocative as Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front. Burned by the Nazis, feted by critics, embraced by millions, Remarque’s dramatized record of the German frontlines in World War I is central to the experience of modern literature and history. As enthralling to twenty-first century audiences as it was to those who first encountered the book in 1928, Remarque’s landmark tells the story of a young German volunteer who, with his comrades, moves from idealism to fatalism witnessing the horrors of mass killing and the intimate deaths of friends or the disfiguring survival of young men languishing in field hospitals. It is a work, finally, not just about World War I but about all wars—with a moral core that exposes the lies by which we live. This reset edition presents the original, classic translation