Fiction based on World War I
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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
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By participants
- Tell England (Ernest Raymond)
- 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)
- Kingdoms Fall: The Laxenburg Message
- 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)
- "Sniper Jackson" (by Frederick Sleath)
- The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War (novel by Camil Petrescu)
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
- "Rivka's War"
- Three Cheers for Me by Donald Jack
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)
- How Young They Die (Stuart Cloete)
- Leviathan (Westerfeld novel)
Films
- The Service Star (1918, USA)
- Shoulder Arms (1918, USA)
- J'accuse (1919, France)
- The Lost Battalion (1919, USA)
- Martyred Belgium (1919, Belgium)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921, USA)
- Die Spionin (1921, Weimar Republic, "Lady Spy")
- The Big Parade (1925, USA)
- Hotel Imperial (1927, USA)
- Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (1927, Weimar Republic, "Mata Hari: the Red Dancer")
- Our Emden (1927, Weimar Republic)
- Wings (1927, USA)
- Carry on, Sergeant! (1928, Canada)
- Dawn (1928, UK)
- Four Sons (1928, USA)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, USA)
- The Dawn Patrol (1930, USA)
- Hell's Angels (1930, USA)
- Journey's End (1930, USA)
- Mamba (1930, USA)
- Westfront 1918 (1930, Weimar Republic)
- Mata Hari (1931, USA)
- Seas Beneath (1931, USA)
- Cruiser Emden (1932, Weimar Republic)
- A Farewell to Arms (1932, USA)
- Tannenberg (1932, Weimar Republic)
- The Eagle and the Hawk (1933, USA)
- Men Must Fight (1933, USA)
- Morgenrot (1933, Weimar Republic, "Dawn")
- Okraina (1933, USSR, "The Outskirts")
- Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika (1934, Nazi Germany, "The Riders of German East Africa")
- Grand Illusion (1937, France)
- The Dawn Patrol (1938, USA)
- Men with Wings (1938, USA)
- Passchendaele (2008, Canada)
- "Birdsong (TV serial)" (2012)
- "Wipers Times" (2013)
Video games
- Red Baron (1980)
- Blue Max (1983)
- Diplomacy (1984)
- Sopwith (1984)
- Sky Kid (1985)
- Red Baron (1990)
- Wings (1990)
- "Verdun 1914-1918" (2013)
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 stories 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.
