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
• The Middle Parts of Fortune (aka Her Privates We - a bowdlerised version) ( by Frederic Manning)
• 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)
• The Enormous Room ( by e.e. cummings)

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
• Passchendaele (film)

With the war as context or background

• The Return of the Soldier
• Barometer Rising
• Herbert West–Reanimator
• Rilla of Ingleside
• The Stones Are Hatching
• Fly Away Peter
• Soldier's Pay (William Faulkner)

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.

See also

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