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"The Love of Neighbor" was written while Remarque was in exile in Switzerland and France from 1938 to 1939. It was not published for the first time in Germany until 1953. The author Remarque writes passionately about the difficulties and struggles of ordinary people before World War II, recreating the precarious social picture of the European continent under the shadow of the Nazis. The novel draws on the wandering fate of the three main characters Kern, Lute, and Steiner to connect a series of stories of homeless people persecuted by the Nazis on the eve of World War II. Because we have no legal identity documents, we wandering people have become accustomed to saying goodbye to everything at any time. Years of wandering have convinced me that life is always easier for people who are selfish, ruthless, and habitual liars. But I still believe in kindness, friendship, love, and that people will break through their self-preservation instincts to help unrelated people. I even experience such stories more often than people who live a peaceful life.

On the eve of World War II, surgeon Ravitch was arrested by the Nazis for helping his Jewish friends hide and was tortured. After escaping from the concentration camp, he went into exile in France and lived a precarious life where he could only operate on people anonymously. One night, he accidentally met Joan, a mysterious woman who was also homeless, on the banks of the Seine River. The two fell in love due to similar circumstances. Ravic was soon deported, and a few months later he returned to Paris, but Joan had chosen someone else. During the same period, Ravik met Haacke, the Nazi leader who tortured him and his girlfriend to death a few years ago on the streets of Paris. Ravitch suffers from the pain of love and memories, and even doubts the need for revenge. Ultimately, he realizes that individual resistance may be insignificant, but it foreshadows the future of all exiles. After Ravitch killed his enemy, the Second World War officially broke out. He and other exiles were arrested by the French police. The prison car carried them through the Arc de Triomphe and drove towards the unpredictable distance... "Arc de Triomphe" was first published in the United States in 1945 and in Germany the following year. It is Remarque's most famous work besides "All Quiet on the Western Front" and has been translated into more than forty languages. This edition specially includes commentary articles by Professor Thomas Schneider, an expert on Remarck research at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, as well as interviews with Remarque.