Three Comrades (novel)
Three Comrades (novel) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Three Comrades First US edition Author Erich Maria Remarque Original title Drei Kameraden Translator A. W. Wheen Cover artist Paul Wenck Language German Genre War novel Publisher Little, Brown and Company (US) Hutchinson (UK) Publication date December 1936 (Dutch transl.) Published in English 1937 Three Comrades ( German : Drei Kameraden ) is a novel first published in 1936 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque . It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front. He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin (probably). Remarque wrote the novel in ...