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  • Published: 27 January 1998
  • ISBN: 9780449912454
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $35.00

Arch of Triumph

A Novel




Reissued in a gorgeous new trade paperback package and for the first time in eBook, this novel by the reknowned author of World War I masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front will be published right on time to celebrate the centennial of WWI in 2014.

The evocative story of a man without a country, Arch of Triumph is a World War II–era classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front.
 
It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic—a German doctor and refugee living in Paris—has been treating some of the city’s most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.
 
Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic manages to hang on—all the while searching for the Nazi who tortured him back in Germany. And though he’s given up on the possibility of love, life has a curious way of taking a turn for the romantic, even during the worst of times.
 
“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

  • Published: 27 January 1998
  • ISBN: 9780449912454
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $35.00

About the author

Erich Maria Remarque

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE was born in Germany in 1898 and drafted into the German army during World War I. His novel All Quiet on the Western Front was published in 1928 and was an instant best seller. When the Nazis came to power, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland; he lost his German citizenship, his books were burned, and his films banned. He went to the United States in 1938 and became a citizen in 1947. He later lived in Switzerland with his second wife, the actress Paulette Goddard. He died in September 1970.

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Praise for Arch of Triumph

Praise for All Quiet on the Western Front

  • "All Quiet on the Western Front is unquestionably the best story of the World War."--H. L. Mencken
  • "The greatest book about the war that I have ever seen."--Christopher Morley
  • "The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably the first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."--The New York Times Book Review
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