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Few books have made so great an impact, political or literary, as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous of all anti-war novels. Startling in its realism, intensely moving in its humanity, banned and burned in Germany by the Nazis, it was an international... Read Full Overview

For more than seventy years Erich Maria Remarque's startlingly realistic and intensely moving antiwar novel All Quiet on the Western Front has remained a worldwide best-seller. A political and literary sensation when it was first published, Remarque's masterpiece was banned and... Read Full Overview

English summary: This is the first French-language biography of Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970). Hated by nationalists in his own country, forced into exile by the Nazis, Remarque viscerally confronted the two tragedies that besieged Germany: World War I and National... Read Full Overview