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.

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.