Arch of Triumph Author:Erich Maria Remarque ARCH OF TRIUMPH — 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. — Forbidden to return to his own country, and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and... more » 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. . . .« less