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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

Musical Scores
An interesting collection of old time victrola music, including sheet music ('Tipperary', 'My Buddy'), and other WWI era favorites. Commercial site.

The Great War Diaries of S.T. Eachus
Describes the adventures of a British signalman during the First World War. Includes background information, complete text, and related links.

Anthem for Doomed Youth
An online exhibit presented by Brigham Young University, commemorating the writers and literature of the First World War.

The Hydra: The Journal of the Craglockhart War Hospital.
An Oxford University site featuring photographs of pages rather than e-text. Contributors included Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.

Smithsonian Magazine -- Torpedoed!
Review of a new book on the 1915 sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania in which historian Diana Preston presents fresh findings.

Prose and Poetry
Profiles and samples of poets and authors who produced work relating to the First World War; includes Sassoon, Owen, Hardy and Remarque.


Arts: Literature: Authors: R: Remarque, Erich Maria






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