All+Quiet+on+the+Western+Front

**Book Summary**

 * First published in German as** //Im Westen Nichts Neues ( //**1928)**

[|Teacher's Guide from Random House]

[|Plot, Biography and Reception] from the Modernism Lab at Yale University

[|The Most Loved and Most Hated Novel about World War I], Smithsonian, June 16, 2015



**Author Biography**
[|Erich Maria Remarque]from New York University

[|Birthday, June 22] from the Writer's Almanac

[|Obituary, September 26, 1970]from the New York Times Learning Network



**Multimedia Resources**
[|All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)] Go here for the [|1930 film Trailer on YouTube]
 * The 1930 version was the first film to win the Oscar for both Best Picture and Best Director
 * [|AMC Filmsite Movie Review]

[|All Quiet on the Western Front (1970)]

[|All Quiet on the Western Front (2016)]

[|Pop Culture 101: All Quiet on the Western Front]from TCM Film Archive describes the history of showing the 1930 film on television.



**Lesson Plans**
[|Unit Plan and Ideas]

[|When to Go to War?]: All Quiet on the Western Front, Washington's Farewell Address and Wilson's Declaration of War from Public Schools of North Carolina.

[|A Solider's Story: World War I Lesson Plan] from the Harry Truman Presidential Museum



**Historical Connections**
See World History II.18 for background on World War I