Media of World War I

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World War I has inspired great novels, drama and poetry. During the war itself, it has been estimated that thousands of poems were written every day by combatants and their relatives. After the war, many participants published their memoirs and diaries.

During the war many of the combatants published trench magazines, most of them for an audience in a particular division or unit. The most famous of these (and the only one still commercially available after the war) was the Wipers Times.

A common subject for fiction in the 1920s and 1930s was the effect of the war, including shell-shock and the huge social changes caused by the war.

From the latter half of the 20th century onwards, the First World War continued to be a popular subject for fiction, mainly novels.

1 Memoirs and Diaries
2 Novels written from personal knowledge
- 2.1 Other contemporary novels
3 Poetry
4 Non-contemporary works
5 External links

[edit] Memoirs and Diaries

Edmund Blunden: Undertones of War
Wilfred Bion: The Long Weekend 1897-1919
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
E. E. Cummings: The Enormous Room
A. Stuart Dolden: Cannon Fodder
Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That
Ernst Jünger: Storm of Steel
T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"): Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Robert James Manion: A surgeon in arms. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918.
John Masefield: published diaries
Frank Richards: Old Soldiers Never Die
Siegfried Sassoon: published diaries
John Terraine: General Jack's Diary
Hans Zoeberlein: Verdun
Ford Madox Ford: the tetralogy Parade's End
W H L Watson, Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the First World War ISBN 978-1846850462
Agnes Warner Nurse at the Trenches Diggory Press ISBN 978-1846853678
Anon, A War Nurse's Diary, ISBN 1846853664
Ward Muir (Royal Army Medical Corps) Observations of an Orderly at an English War Hospital, ISBN 1846850355
Anon, Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, ISBN 978-1846857164
Anon, Mademoiselle Miss: Letters from a First World War Nurse at an Army Hospital Near the Marne
Olive Dent, A V.A.D. in France ISBN 1905363095
Leslie Buswell, Ambulance No 10, ISBN 1905363036
Edward Coyle, Ambulancing on the French Front, ISBN 1846854636
Pat Beauchamp, FANNY Goes to War: An Englishwoman in the Fany Corps ISBN 1905363052
The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts Edited by E Lyman Cabot et al, ISBN 1846852021
June Richardson Lucas, The Children of France and the Red Cross ISBN 1905363192
Harriet MacDonald, Harriet Went to War: A Physical Therapy Nurse at the French Front ISBN 184685069X