All Quiet on the Western Front

"[A] gripping new translation." -Samantha Power, from the Foreword The novel that has done more than any other to inspire opposition to war, in a major new translation that captures its undiminished literary power for a new generation With a Foreword by Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling war correspondent, human rights advocate, and former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations A Penguin Classics HardcoverGalvanized by youthful idealism and patriotic fervor, nineteen-year-old Paul Bäumer and his schoolmates enlist in the German army at the onset of World War I.
But soon their dreams of heroism shatter beneath the first shells of the bombardment, as they find on the battle front not the glory they were promised but savage brutality. The most influential war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies, been translated into more than fifty languages, and been adapted into three acclaimed films. In his Nobel Prize lecture, Bob Dylan included it among three books that have left an impression on him since elementary school: "This is a book where you lose your childhood, your faith in a meaningful world, and your concern for individuals.