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: Remarque has been served generally well by his previous English-language translators, but never better than by Kurt Beals of the University of Richmond. Mr. Beals's shimmering version of this novel should become the standard for English readers. He commits to each page a burnished prose that beautifully stewards the original, and he captures more vividly than any other translator the sensory onslaught of Remarque's narration, the unholy cacophony of trench battle. Mr. Beals also vividly renders Remarque's indelible imagery: corpses bombed out of their caskets, the baffling presence of butterflies that 'pause to rest on the teeth of a skull.'--William Giraldi "The Wall Street Journal"