All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues) is an anti-war novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of Worl War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. The book was first published in German as Im Westen nichts Neues in January 1929. It sold 2.5 million copies in twenty-five languages in its first eighteen months in print. In 1930 the book was turned into an Oscar-winning movie of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.