Fiction based on World War I

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.

Books

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)
*"Ghosts have Warm Hands" (memoir)
*"Across the black waters"(novel by- mulkraj anand)

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"
*"The General"

With the war as context or background

*"Barometer Rising"
*"Rilla of Ingleside"
*"The Stones Are Hatching"

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.

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.

ee also

*War novel
*List of films based on war books
*Literature of World War I
*Fiction based on World War II