List of authors in war

List of authors in war

Many of the authors that served in various real-life wars (and survived) wrote stories that are at least somewhat based on their own experiences. Some of them are outright memoirs or fictionalized accounts of their exploits.

World War I

* Henri Barbusse, served in France ("Under Fire")
* E. E. Cummings, volunteer ambulance driver ("The Enormous Room")
* Robert Graves, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers ("Goodbye to All That")
* Jaroslav Hasek, served in Austrian and Czech armies (who were on opposing sides), ("The Good Soldier Svejk")
*Ernest Hemingway, drove ambulances in Italy ("A Farewell to Arms")
* Thomas E. Lawrence, Arabian Lawrence ("Seven Pillars of Wisdom")
* Erich Maria Remarque, infantry soldier, wounded in Passendale ("All Quiet on the Western Front")
* Siegfried Sassoon, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers ("Memoirs of an Infantry Officer")
* Lajos Zilahy, ("Century in Scarlet")

Spanish Civil War

* Laurie Lee, served on the Republican side ("A Moment of War")
* George Orwell, served and wounded on the Republican side ("Homage to Catalonia")

World War II

* J. G. Ballard, interned as a boy in Shanghai ("Empire of the Sun")
* Pierre Boulle, in British Special Forces ("Bridge on the River Kwai")
* Samuel Fuller – ("The Big Red One")
* Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier
* Joseph Heller, served in 12th Air Force ("Catch-22")
* Alistair MacLean, in the Royal Navy ("HMS Ulysses")
* Norman Mailer, served in South Pacific ("The Naked and the Dead")
* Harry Martinson, Swedish volunteer in Winter War ("Verklighet Till Döds")
* John Masters Gurkha officer, served in North Africa and Burma with the Chindits ("Bhowani Junction", "The Road Past Mandalay")
* Leon Uris, in United States Marine Corps ("Battle Cry")
* Gore Vidal, in US Army ("Williwaw")
* Kurt Vonnegut, US infantry soldier, survived bombing of Dresden as a POW ("Slaughterhouse Five")
* Evelyn Waugh, in Royal Marines, later Royal Horse Guards served in Crete and Yugoslavia ("Men at Arms, The End of the Battle")

Vietnam War

* David Hackworth, in US Army ("Vietnam Primer, About Face, Steel My Soldiers' Hearts")

Gulf War

* Anthony Swofford, in US Marines ("Jarhead (book)")


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