All Quiet on the Western FrontUntil now, one translation published in 1929, and very much a product of its time has introduced most readers in English to Remarque's wrenching portrait of the horrors of trench warfare.Now, nearly a century later, renowned translator Kurt Beals recaptures the energy and descriptive force of the German original, rendering Remarque's distinctly terse, telegraphic prose into a contemporary idiom, conveying for a new generation the immediacy and intensity of this classic novel.
