The Road Back
Riding on the tail of the success of "All Quiet on the Western Front", a number of similar works followed from Remarque. In simple, emotive language, they described wartime and the postwar years in Germany. In 1931, after finishing "The Road Back" ("Der Weg zurück"), he bought a villa in Ronco, Switzerland with the substantial financial wealth that his published works had brought him. He planned to live both there and in France.