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 publications.

Books

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By participants

With primary emphasis on the war

With the war as context or background

Films

For a more comprehensive list, see List of World War I films.

Video games

For a more comprehensive list, see List of World War I video games.

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.

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