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World War I has inspired great novels, drama and poetry. In a period of the war itself, it has been guessed that hundreds to thousands of verse form were written daily by belligerent & their relatives. When a war, numerous participants published their memoirs & diaries.
around the period of the war several of the battler published trench magazines, virtually all of the children for even an audience in a particular section or unit. A best known 1 (& a simply one however commercially available when a war) was a Wipers Times.
a most common subject for fiction in the Twenties & Thirties was the consequence of the war, including shell-shock and a immense social changes from either the war.
From either a latter half of the 20th century onwards, the Foremost Globecome War continued to be the popular subject for fiction, principally novels.
Novels written from either portable noesis:
Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero
Jaroslav Hašek: The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War
Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Emilio Lussu: A Year on the Plateau
Frederic Manning: Her Privates We
W. Somerset Maugham: Spy fiction such as Ashenden
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun
More contemporary novels:
John Buchan: many works including Greenmantle & The Thirty-Nine Steps
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Timothy Findley: "The Wars"
Memoirs & Diaries:
Edmund Blunden: Undertones of War
Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth
E. E. Cummings: The Enormous Room
A. Stuart Dolden: Cannon Fodder
Robert Graves: Goodbye to All That
Ernst Jünger: Storm of Steel
T E Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"): Seven Pillars of Wisdom
John Masefield: published diaries
Frank Richards: Old Soldiers Never Die
Siegfried Sassoon: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer & promulgated diaries
John Terraine:'' General Jack's Diary
Hans Zoeberlein: [http://www.third-reich-books.com/x-590a-verdun.htm Verdun]
Ford Madox Ford: the tetralogy Parade's End
Poetry:
Laurence Binyon: For the Fallen
Edmund Blunden
Rupert Brooke
Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Julian Grenfell
Ivor Gurney: Severn & Somme and War's Embers
Francis Ledwidge
John McCrae: In Flanders' Fields
Wilfred Owen
Isaac Rosenberg
Siegfried Sassoon
Robert W. Service
Charles Sorley
Edward Thomas
Non-contemporary:
Pat Barker: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road
William Boyd: An Ice-Cream War
J. L. Carr: A Month in the Country
Marc Dugain: The Officers' Ward
Byron Farwell: The Smashing War inside Africa
Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong
Mark Helprin: A Soldier of the Great War
Margaret Olwen Macmillan & Richard Holbrooke - Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Robert K. Massie: Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, classic analysis of the WWI Naval battles
Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August, classic analysis of the leadup to WWI
Barbara W. Tuchman: The Zimmermann Telegram, events leading to American involvement in WWI
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: August 1914''
Frank McGuinness's 1986 play - Watch a Sons of Ulster Marching Towards a Somme
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