Description: The greatest war novel of all time rendered in a taut, muscular, and urgent new translation.
Brief description: Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) was one the best-selling German-born authors of the twentieth century. Several of his novels portrayed the experience of war and its aftermath. All Quiet on the Western Front was his best-known and most widely read work.
Review Quotes: A new translation by Kurt Beals . . . renders Remarque's German in a colloquial register--sometimes caustic, sometimes lyrical--that is itself a product of the Great War . . . He gives us a version that can stand as Remarque's contemporary.--George Packer "Atlantic"