Includes bibliographical references and index.

On All quiet on the western front / Brian Murdoch -- Biography of Erich Maria Remarque / Diane Andrews Henningfeld -- The Paris review perspective / Ruth Franklin for The Paris review -- The Weimar Republic and the literature of the Great War / Thomas Schneider -- The reception of All quiet on the western front / Mark Ward -- Partial accusation? Stylistic and structural methods in All quiet on the western front / Peter Hutchinson -- All quiet on the western front and Hemingway's A farewell to arms / Matthew J. Bolton -- The lost generation and the Weimar context. The end of war? / Erich Maria Remarque and Ian Hamilton -- All quiet on the western front / Hilton Tims -- Im Westen nichts Neues: a bestseller in context / Alan F. Bance -- Memory / Modris Eksteins -- All quiet on the western front as a novel. The spokesman of a generation / Harley U. Taylor, Jr. -- Post mortem. All quiet on the western front (1929) / Richard Arthur Firda -- Remarque's abyss of time: Im Westen nichts Neues / Richard Schumaker -- "Der Krieg hat uns für alles verdorben": the real theme of Im Westen nichts Neues / Richard Littlejohns -- From the frog's perspective: Im Westen nichts Neues and Der Weg zurück / Brian Murdoch -- All quiet on the western front and other war novels. "There must be a reason . . .": the uses of experience / Ann P. Linder -- Iron men and paper warriors: Remarque, Binding, and Weimar literature / Kim Allen Scott -- All quiet on the western front as a film. All quiet on the western front (U.S., 1930): the antiwar film and the image of modern war / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- Pacifism, politics, and art: milestone's All quiet on the western front and Pabst's Westfront 1918 / Kathleen Norrie and Malcolm Read.