5 Novels about World War IILike moths to a flame, authors are drawn to the drama, heroism, and horror of stories of war. World War II is no exception. Here is a collection of five fascinating novels about the war fought by what we now honor as "the greatest generation."Wasson, Megan...
World War II in Three Contanporav NovelsCloonan, William
where everything is a secret and everyone lives in each other’s pocket, throughout there is a sense of claustrophobia and paranoia quite at odds with the increasingly cosy way that current WW2 novels portray Britain at war, all country lanes and boffins cycling off to Bletchley. S...
5 novels about World War II.(Books)(Brief article)Wasson, Megan
The responsible people in army have honored Anton Myrer’s novel Once An Eagle. It is on many army professionals’ list of recommendations as being one of the best novels written about war. The novel is a bit tricky as it takes the readers to not only the war but two wars actually, an...
Over 600 readers have voted on the 50+ books on Best Novels About World War 1. Current Top 3: All Quiet on the Western Front, A Farewell to Arms, The four ...
You can find online galleries of Hurley’s photographs from the First World Warhere. I used several of them in my presentation at Lexington, and so this excursion into Hurley’s war work is not a side-track: I also used passages from several novels (clearly noted as such), partly to tr...
IfWar and Peacehad never been written, it might have been easier for Vasily Grossman’sLife and Fateto win an audience. To compareLifewithWaris so obvious and instinctive it’s almost an autonomic reflex. They’re both big, thick novels about Russia at war with enormous casts of characters...
'Oh what a literary war,' wrote the late Paul Fussell o f 1914-18, sufficiently catholic in his canon to include Ian Hay's The First Hundred Thousand and even Spud Tamson (both 1915) in his Great W a r and Modern M e m o r y (1975). Propaganda and literary effectiveness were ...
World War I was called ‘The Great War’ until World War II began in 1939, which also involved countries from all around the world. An Armistice was signed that ended World War I at 11:00am on 11 November, 1918. This meant that the countries that were fighting against each other agreed...