Fiction based on World War I
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World War I was never quite so fertile a topic as World War II for American fiction, but there were nevertheless a large number of fictional works created about it in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Many war novels, however, have fallen out of print since their original publications.
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[edit] Books
[edit] By participants
- All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back
- The Good Soldier Svejk
- A Farewell to Arms
- Her Privates We
- Death of a Hero
- Ashenden
- A Year on the Plateau (or Sardinian Brigade)
- Parade's End
- Under Fire
- Journey's End
- The Spanish Farm trilogy
- Generals Die in Bed
- The German Prisoner
- Goodbye to All That (memoir)
- Storm of Steel (memoir)
- Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (memoir)
- Testament of Youth (memoir)
- Undertones of War (memoir)
[edit] With primary emphasis on the war
- The Major
- Johnny Got His Gun
- The Blue Max
- The Wars
- Billy Bishop Goes to War
- La guerre, yes sir!
- Regeneration and the Regeneration Trilogy
- An Ace Minus One
[edit] With the war as context or background
[edit] Comics & Graphic Novels
- In Peanuts, Snoopy pretends he is a World War I fighter ace, fighting the Red Baron. His 'plane' is actually his doghouse.
[edit] Genres Influenced by World War I
Several entire genres grew out of the disillusionment and disappointment of World War I. The hard-boiled detective novels of the 1920s featured bitter veteran protagonists. The horror novels of H. P. Lovecraft after the war showed a new sense of nihilism and despair in the face of an uncaring, chaotic cosmos, very unlike his more conventional horror before the war.
