Media of World War I

World War I has inspired great novels, drama and poetry. During the war itself, it has been estimated that thousands of poems were written every day by combatants and their relatives. After the war, many participants published their memoirs and diaries.

During the war many of the combatants published trench magazines, most of them for an audience in a particular division or unit. The most famous of these (and the only one still commercially available after the war) was the "Wipers Times".

A common subject for fiction in the 1920s and 1930s was the effect of the war, including shell-shock and the huge social changes caused by the war.

From the latter half of the 20th century onwards, the First World War continued to be a popular subject for fiction, mainly novels.

Memoirs and Diaries

*Hermann Lüpkes: "Tagebuch Blätter aus dem Felde 1914-1918" Steveston Publishing ISBN 978-0-9810104-0-3 [http://www.luepkesdiary.com]
*Edmund Blunden: "Undertones of War"
*Wilfred Bion: "The Long Weekend 1897-1919"
*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"
*Robert James Manion: [http://www.archive.org/details/surgeoninarms00maniuoft "A surgeon in arms." Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918.]
*John Masefield: published diaries
*Frank Richards: "Old Soldiers Never Die"
*Siegfried Sassoon: published 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"
* W H L Watson, "Adventures of a Motorcycle Despatch Rider During the First World War" ISBN 978-1846850462
*Agnes Warner "Nurse at the Trenches" Diggory Press ISBN 978-1846853678
* Anon, A War Nurse's Diary, ISBN 1846853664
*Ward Muir (Royal Army Medical Corps) Observations of an Orderly at an English War Hospital, ISBN 1846850355
* Anon, "Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front" 1914-1915, ISBN 978-1846857164
* Anon, "Mademoiselle Miss: Letters from a First World War Nurse at an Army Hospital Near the Marne"
* Olive Dent, "A V.A.D. in France" ISBN 1905363095
* Leslie Buswell, "Ambulance No 10", ISBN 1905363036
* Edward Coyle, "Ambulancing on the French Front", ISBN 1846854636
* Pat Beauchamp, "FANNY Goes to War: An Englishwoman in the Fany Corps" ISBN 1905363052
* "The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts" Edited by E Lyman Cabot et al, ISBN 1846852021
* June Richardson Lucas, "The Children of France and the Red Cross" ISBN 1905363192
* Harriet MacDonald, "Harriet Went to War: A Physical Therapy Nurse at the French Front" ISBN 184685069X

Novels written from personal knowledge

*Richard Aldington: "Death of a Hero"
*Henri Barbusse: "Le Feu"
*John Dos Passos: "Three Soldiers"
*Jaroslav Hašek: "The Good Soldier Svejk"
*Ernest Hemingway: "A Farewell to Arms"
*Emilio Lussu: "Sardinian Brigade"
*Frederic Manning: "Her Privates We"
*W. Somerset Maugham: Spy fiction such as "Ashenden"
*Erich Maria Remarque: "All Quiet on the Western Front"
*Siegfried Sassoon: "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer"
*R.C. Sherriff and Vernon Bartlett: "Journey's End" (play)
*Arnold Zweig: "Education before Verdun, The Case of Sergeant Grischa"
*Louis-Ferdinand Céline: "Journey to the End of the Night"

Other contemporary novels

*John Buchan: many works including "Greenmantle" and "The Thirty-Nine Steps"
*Dorothy L. Sayers: "The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club"

Poetry

*Apollinaire: "Calligrammes: Poems of War and Peace 1913-1916"
*Laurence Binyon: "For the Fallen"
*Edmund Blunden
*Rupert Brooke
*Wilfred Wilson Gibson
*Robert Graves
*Julian Grenfell
*Ivor Gurney: "Severn and Somme" and "War's Embers"
*Francis Ledwidge
*John McCrae: "In Flanders' Fields"
*Wilfred Owen
*Isaac Rosenberg
*Siegfried Sassoon
*Vernon Scannell
*Robert W. Service
*Charles Sorley
*Edward Thomas
*Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy
*Sergei Yesenin: Belgium

Non-contemporary works

*Pat Barker: "Regeneration", "The Eye in the Door", "The Ghost Road"
*Sebastian Barry: "A Long Long Way"
*William Boyd: "An Ice-Cream War"
*J. L. Carr: "A Month in the Country"
*Marc Dugain: "The Officers' Ward"
*Ben Elton: "The First Casualty"
*Sebastian Faulks: "Birdsong"
*Timothy Findley: "The Wars"
*Susan Hill: "Strange Meeting"
*Mark Helprin: "A Soldier of the Great War"
*Sebastien Japrisot: "A Very Long Engagement"
*Jennifer Johnston: "How Many Miles to Babylon?"
*Frank McGuinness: "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" (play)
*Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop: "Oh! What a Lovely War" (play)
*Jeff Shaara: "To the Last Man"
*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: "August 1914"
*Dalton Trumbo: "Johnny Got His Gun"

External links

* [http://aspirations.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/alevel/alevelww1.acds An A-level study site]
* [http://www.whscms.org.uk/index.php?category_id=378 A sixth from perspective-including literature and the technology of war]
* [http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk See the original editions of some of the books listed here and many other works of Great War Literature]
* [http://www.dulce-et-decorum.nl The Dutch Publishing House Dulce et Decorum concentrates on publishing translations of world war one literature.]