Fiction based on World War II

Many types of fiction have involved events in the World War II time period. This list is a chronological collection of significant events from such fiction. It includes events that were set in World War II but have never occurred. Many of these works are key examples of the war novel genre.

Novels

*"A Bell for Adano" by John Hersey (1944)
*"The Bridge over the River Kwai" by Pierre Boulle (1954)
*"The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk (1951)
*"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1961)
*"The Charioteer" by Mary Renault (1954)
*"The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat (1951)
*"The Eagle Has Landed" by Jack Higgins (1975)
*"Eye of the Needle" by Ken Follett (1978)
*"From Here to Eternity" by James Jones (1951)
*"The Good Shepherd" by C. S. Forester (1955)
*"Goodbye to Some" by Gordon Forbes (1961)
*"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
*"HMS Ulysses" by Alistair MacLean (1955)
*"King Rat" by James Clavell (1962)
*"Lessons in Dance and Love" by Pavel Kohout (1989)
*"The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer (1948)
*"No Birds Sang" by Farley Mowat (1979)
*"No Man's Land" by Kevin Major
*"Once an Eagle" by Anton Myrer (1968)
*"Pastoral" by Nevil Shute (1944)
*"The Rhinemann Exchange" by Robert Ludlum
*"Run Silent, Run Deep" by Edward L. Beach, Jr. (1955)
*"The Secret of Santa Vittoria" by Robert Crichton
*"Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969)
*"The Thin Red Line" by James Jones (1962)
*"A Walk in the Sun" by Harry Brown
*"War and Remembrance" by Herman Wouk
*"The War Lover" by John Hersey
*"War of the Rats" by David L. Robbins
*"The Widow Killer by Pavel Kohout (1995 in Czech, 2000 in English)
*"Whistle (novel)" by James Jones

*"The Winds of War" by Herman Wouk (1971)

Authors who specialise in World War II

*Sven Hassel
*Arnošt Lustig

hort stories

*"For Esme With Love and Squalor" by J.D. Salinger
*"Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener

Movies

1940s

*"49th Parallel"
*"Casablanca"

1960s

*"The Great Escape"
*"The Shop on Main Street"
*"Closely Watched Trains"
*"The Dirty Dozen"
*"The Devil's Brigade"
*"The Longest Day"

1970s

*"A Bridge Too Far"
*"Cross of Iron"
*"Kelly's Heroes"
*"Ohtlikud mängud (The Dangerous Games)"
*"Once an Eagle" (1976)

1980s

*"The Sea Wolves" (1980)
*"Das Boot" (1981)
*"Come and See" (1985)
*"The Misfit Brigad" (1987)

1990s

*"Schindler's List"
*"Stalingrad"
*"La vita e' bella"
*"The Thin Red Line"
*"Saving Private Ryan"
*"All My Loved Ones" (about Nicholas Winton)

2000s

*"Divided We Fall"
*"Želary"
*"Enemy at the Gates"
*"Return to Never Land"
*"Windtalkers"
*"Flags of Our Fathers"
*"Letters from Iwo Jima"

Games

*"Call of Duty"
*"Medal of Honor series"
*"Wolfenstein" video game series by Id Software
*"UberSoldier"
*"Battlefield 1942"
*"Day Of Defeat" and its upgraded, Source Engine counterpart, ""
*"Company of Heroes" and its expansions
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*"Patton Drives East [http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=156&Itemid=216]

Comic books

*Marvel superheroes fight Nazi Germany, including Captain America, Sgt Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos, etc.

ee also

*War novel
*List of films based on war books
*Fiction based on World War I
*Fiction based on the Vietnam War
*Alternate history