Arch of Triumph

<b>The evocative story of a man without a country <i>Arch of Triumph</i> is a World War II-era classic from the author of <i>All Quiet on the Western Front</i>.</b><br> <b> </b><br> 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. <p/> 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. <p/> <b>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.--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b>