Fiction based on World War I

Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

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. Numerous scholarly studies have covered the major fictional authors and writings.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

Books

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)

•"Darcy's Hope ~ Beauty from Ashes" (Ginger Monette) •"Darcy's Hope at Donwell Abbey" (Ginger Monette)

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.

See also

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

Notes

1. Holger Michael Klein, The First World War in fiction: A collection of critical essays (1977).
2. John Onions, and Paula Loscocco, English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918–39 (Springer, 1990).
3. John Cruickshank, Variations on catastrophe: some French responses to the Great War (1982).
4. Susanne Christine Puissant, Irony and the poetry of the First World War (2009).
5. Catherine O'Brien, Women's fictional responses to the First World War: a comparative study of selected texts by French and German writers (1997).
6. Erika Quinn, "Love and loss, marriage and mourning: World War One in German home front novels." First World War Studies 5.2 (2014): 233-250.
7. Wen Zhou, and Ping Liu. "The First World War and the Rise of Modern American Novel: A Survey of the Critical Heritage of American WWI Writing in the 20th Century." Journal of Cambridge Studies (2011) 6#2 116-30. online
8. C. Tylee, The Great War and Women’s Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women’s Writings, 1914-1964 (1990)