Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front, based on his own experiences as a young infantryman in the German army during World War I, masterfully depicts the horror of war. Remarque was partially influenced by Henri Barbusse's Le Feu Journal d'une Escouade (1916), a war novel published while the conflict was still being fought, and his avowed purpose was to report on a generation that was destroyed by the wareven when it escaped the shells. More than a million copies of the book were sold in Germany during its first year of publication, and millions more when it was translated and distributed in the other nations. However, the Nazis took away Remarque's German citizenship in 1938. Later on, he became a citizen of Switzerland and the United States. Though Remarque published another ten novels and various screenplays, he is known primarily as the author of All Quiet on the Western Front. ...