All Quiet on the Western Front

Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force

The Times

Remarque is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank

New York Times Book Review

There are some books that should be read by every generation... Remarque's story of German trench soldiers of the 1914-18 war gains even more authority in the context of the loss of life in wars that still rage

Chris Searle

Brian Murdoch's new English translation shows that Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force

The Times

The book conquers without persuading, it shakes you without exaggerating, a perfect work of art and at the same time truth that cannot by doubted

Stefan Zweig

This harrowing narrative is unexpectedly beautiful, more pensive than angry

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

Its extraordinary appeal may stem from Remarque’s success in universalising the soldiers’ experience — that the war was the same for all who fought

Daily Telegraph

The power to move people by words, to arouse their sensibilities as well as their minds, was Erich Maria Remarque's to an extraordinary degree

New York Times

[A] masterpiece… For the first time a writer gave a raw, pitiless account of men killing each other, by any means possible… its unrelenting honesty makes it hard to read it as anything else

Economist