![]() ![]() Later on, he became a citizen of Switzerland and the United States. However, Nazi Germany took away Remarque's citizenship in 1938. His avowed purpose in writing the novel was "to report on a generation that was destroyed by the war-even when it escaped the shells." More than a million copies of the book were sold in Germany the first year it appeared, followed by millions more when translated and distributed in the other nations. Erich Maria Remarque based the book on his own experience as a young infantryman in the German army during World War I, and was partially influenced by Henri Barbusse's "Le Feu Journal d'une Escouade," (1916) a war novel published while the war was still being fought. Published in 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front masterfully depicts the horror of war. ![]() All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque ![]()
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