A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story The ComBat was an Aluminium Cricket bat and the subject of an incident that occurred at the WACA cricket ground in Perth in December 1979. Home front is the informal term commonly used to describe the Civilian populace of the Nation at War as an active support War is an international relations Dispute, characterized by organized Violence between National Military units

Contents 1 History of the war novel 1.1 Origins 1.2 19th century war novels 1.3 World War I and after 1.4 World War II and after 1.5 Vietnam and after 2 Further reading 2.1 Other significant war novelists 2.2 Critical studies of the war novel 3 See also

History of the war novel

Origins

The war novel's main roots lie in the epic poetry of the classical and medieval periods, especially Homer's The Iliad, Virgil's The Aeneid, the Old English saga Beowulf, and different versions of the legends of King Arthur. An epic is a lengthy Narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation "Classical literature" redirects here For literature in Classical languages outside the Graeco-Roman sphere see Ancient literature. Homer ( Ancient Greek:, Homēros) is a legendary ancient Greek epic Poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the The Iliad ( Greek: Ἰλιάς (Ancient Ιλιάδα (Modern is together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BCE &ndash September 21, 19 BCE later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities see Ennead. The Aeneid (əˈniːɪd in Beowulf is an Old English Heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between King Arthur is a legendary British leader who according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders All of these epics were concerned with preserving the history or mythology of conflicts between different societies, while providing an accessible narrative that could reinforce the collective memory of a people. History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology The word mythology (from the Greek grc μυθολογία mythología, meaning "a story-telling a legendary lore" Collective memory is a term coined by Maurice Halbwachs, separating the notion from the individual memory Other important influences on the war novel included the tragedies of such dramatists as Euripides, Seneca the Younger, Christopher Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Euripides ( Ancient Greek:) (ca 480 BC–406 BC was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger; Σένεκας in Ancient Greek literature (c William Shakespeare ( baptised Shakespeare's Henry V provided a model for how the history, tactics, and ethics of war could be combined in an essentially fictional framework. Military tactics ( Greek: Taktikē, the art of organizing an army are the techniques for using weapons or military units in combination for engaging and defeating Ethics is a major branch of Philosophy, encompassing right conduct and good life Romances and satires in Early Modern Europe--Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, to name two of many--also contained elements of military heroism and folly that influenced the later development of war novels. As a Literary genre of High culture, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic Prose and verse Narrative Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human The early modern period is a term used by historians to refer to the period in Western '''Europe''' and its first colonies which spans the three centuries between Edmund Spenser (c 1552 &ndash 13 January, 1599) was an important English Poet and Poet Laureate best known for The The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published first in three books in 1590 and later in six books in 1596 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( in modern Spanish; September 29, 1547 &ndash April 22, 1616) was a Spanish Novelist es '''''Don Quixote''''' (, see spelling and pronunciation below fully titled es '''''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha''''' ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don In terms of imagery and symbolism, many modern war novels (especially those espousing an anti-war viewpoint) take their cue from Dante's depiction of Hell in The Inferno, John Milton's account of the war in Heaven in Paradise Lost, and the Apocalypse as depicted in the Book of Revelation. Vagina Imagery is used in literature to refer to descriptive language that evokes sensory experience "Symbolic" redirects here For other uses see Symbolism (disambiguation and Symbolic (disambiguation. The term anti-war usually refers to the opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. Hell, according to many Religious beliefs, is a location in the Afterlife, which may be described as a place of suffering John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and Heaven may refer to the physical heavens the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the Universe beyond Paradise Lost is an Epic poem in Blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. The Book of Revelation, also called Revelation to John, Apocalypse of John ( pronounced, from the Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου

As the prose fiction novel rose to prominence in the seventeenth century, the war novel began to develop its modern form, although most novels featuring war were picaresque satires in which the soldier was rakish rather than realistic figure. For the Wikipedia guideline regarding editing articles see WikipediaManual of Style. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar The picaresque novel ( Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for " Rogue " or " Rascal " is a A soldier is a general English term that refers to a member of a land component of National Armed forces. An example of one such work is Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus, a semi-autobiographical account of the Thirty Years' War. Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1621 – August 17, 1676) was a German author Simplicissimus is also a name for the 1668 novel Simplicius Simplicissimus and its protagonist For the Mauritanian Thirty Years' War see Char Bouba war. For the band see The 30 Years War.

19th century war novels

The war novel came of age during the nineteenth century. The 19th century of the Common Era began on January 1, 1801 and ended on December 31, 1900, according to the Gregorian calendar Works such as Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma, featuring the Battle of Waterloo, Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, about the Napoleonic Wars in Russia, and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, about the American Civil War established the conventions of the modern war novel as it has come down to us today. Henri-Marie Beyle ( January 23, 1783 &ndash March 23, 1842) better known by his Pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century The Charterhouse of Parma ( French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel published in 1839 by Stendhal. In the Battle of Waterloo (Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo Belgium Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( –) (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, was a Russian Writer widely regarded War and Peace (Война и мир Voyna i mir) is a Novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Stephen Crane (November 1 1871 &ndash June 5 1900 was an American novelist short story writer poet and journalist The Red Badge of Courage is a 1895 War novel by American author Stephen Crane. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South All of these works feature realistic depictions of major battles, visceral scenes of wartime horrors and atrocities, and significant insights into the nature of heroism, cowardice, and morality in wartime. A hero (from Greek grc ἥρως hērōs) in Greek mythology and Folklore, was originally a Demigod, the offspring of a mortal and Coward redirects here For other meanings including as a surname see Coward (disambiguation. Morality (from the Latin la moralitas "manner character proper behavior" has three principal meanings

An important sub-genre of war fiction included works about war between European settlers and Aboriginal Peoples in North America, seen for instance in the novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Major John Richardson. The term Indigenous Peoples or autochthonous peoples can be used to describe any Ethnic group who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest historical James Fenimore Cooper (September 15 1789 &ndash September 14 1851 was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century The name John Richardson can refer to Politics John S Richardson, United States Congressman from South Carolina 1879 to 1883 In the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, the war novel also entered the realm of popular fiction through the adventurous war novels of Ralph Connor, G. A. Henty, and Rudyard Kipling. Genre fiction is a term for fictional works ( Novels short stories) written with the intent of fitting into a specific Literary genre Rev Dr Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, ( September 13, 1860 &ndash October 31, 1937) was a Canadian novelist George Alfred Henty ( 8 December, 1832 - 16 November, 1902) referred to as G Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English Author and poet These latter novelists emphasized the heroic and patriotic aspects of war. They were the last war novelists to write with a blatantly imperialist or romantic mindset, an outlook that became ever-harder to espouse in the wake of the post-industrial wars and genocides of the twentieth century. Imperialism has two meanings one describing an action and the other describing an attitude Romanticism is a complex artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction in whole or in part of an ethnic racial religious or national group The twentieth century of the Common Era began on

World War I and after

World War I produced an unprecedented number of war novels, by writers from countries on all sides of the conflict. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All One of the first and most influential of these was the 1916 novel Le Feu (or Under Fire) by the French novelist and soldier Henri Barbusse. Under Fire The Story of a Squad (French Le Feu journal d'une escouade) by Henri Barbusse, published in 1917 was one of the first novels about the This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Henri Barbusse ( May 17, 1873, Asnières-sur-Seine &mdash August 30, 1935, Moscow) was a French Novelist Barbusse's novel, with its open criticism of nationalist dogma and military incompetence, initiated the anti-war movement in literature that flourished after the war. The term nationalism can refer to an Ideology, a sentiment, a form of Culture, or a Social movement that focuses on the Nation

The post-1918 period produced a vast range of war novels, including such "home front" novels as Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, about a shell shocked soldier's difficult re-integration into British society; Romain Rolland's Clérambault, about a grieving father's enraged protest against French militarism; and John Dos Passos's Three Soldiers, one of a relatively small number of American novels about the First World War. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Cicely Isabel Fairfield ( December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983) known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West The Return of the Soldier is a 1918 novel by British novelist Rebecca West. Romain Rolland ( 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French Dramatist, Essayist, Art historian Clérambault is a 1920 novel by the Nobel Prize -winning French author Romain Rolland. Militarism is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or John Roderigo Dos Passos ( January 14, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1970) was an American Novelist and artist Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos.

Also in the post-World War I period, the theme of war began to inhabit an increasing number of modernist novels, many of which were not "war novels" in the conventional sense, but which featured characters whose psychological trauma and alienation from society stemmed directly from wartime experiences. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event. In Sociology and Critical social theory, alienation refers to an individual's estrangement from traditional community and others in general One example this type of novel is Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, in which a key subplot concerns the tortuous descent of a young veteran, Septimus Warren Smith, toward insanity and suicide. (Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941 was an English Novelist and Essayist, regarded as one of the foremost Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May, 1925) is a Novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in A subplot, sometimes referred to as a "B story" or a "C story" and so on is a secondary plot strand that is auxiliary to the main plot

The late 1920s saw the rise of the so-called "war book boom," during which many men who had fought during the war were finally ready to write openly and critically about their war experiences. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada In 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) was a massive, world-wide bestseller, not least for its brutally realistic account of the horrors of trench warfare from the perspective of a German infantryman. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark 22 June 1898 &ndash 25 September 1970) was a German author. All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues is an Anti-war Novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran A bestseller is a Book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade Trench warfare is a form of warfare where both combatants have fortified positions and fighting lines are static Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Infantry is the oldest and most numerous of the Combat Arms in the Armed forces, and consists Also successful were Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, William March's Company K, Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero, Arnold Zweig's Der Streit un den Sergeanten Grischa (The Case of Sergeant Grischa), and Charles Yale Harrison's Generals Die in Bed -- the latter one of the most bitter accounts of war ever written. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical Novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929 William March (born William Edward Campbell September 18 1893 – May 15 1954 was an American World War I veteran short-story writer and novelist cited Company K is a 1933 Novel by William March, first serialised in parts in the New York Magazine Forum from Richard Aldington (born Edward Godfree Aldington July 8 1892 &ndash July 27 1962 was an English writer and poet. Death of a Hero is a World War I Novel by Richard Aldington. It was his first novel written in 1929 and thought to be partly autobiographical Arnold Zweig ( 10 November 1887 &ndash 26 November 1968) was a German Writer and anti-war activist The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927 is a War novel by the German writer Arnold Zweig. Charles Yale Harrison ( 16 June 1898 - 1954 was an American - Canadian novelist and journalist best known for his 1930 Anti-war Generals Die in Bed is an Anti-war Novel by the Canadian - American writer Charles Yale Harrison.

Novels about World War I continued to trickle into print throughout the 1930s. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression. One particular development during this decade was the rise in popularity of historical novels about earlier wars. An historical novel is a Novel in which the story is set among historical events or more generally in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the Author Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, which recalls the American Civil War, is an example of works of this type. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh ( November 8 1900 – August 16 1949) popularly known as Margaret Mitchell was an American This is about the 1936 American Novel. For the film see Gone with the Wind (film Gone with the Wind is a 1936 American

World War II and after

World War II gave rise to a new boom in contemporary war novels. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Unlike World War I novels, a European-dominated genre, World War II novels were produced in the greatest numbers by American writers, who made war in the air, on the sea, and in key theatres such as the Pacific Ocean and Asia integral to the war novel. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions Among the most successful American war novels were Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the latter a novel set in the Spanish Civil War. Herman Wouk ( "woke" born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American Author with a number of notable Novels to his The Caine Mutiny is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. James Ramon Jones ( November 6, 1921 &ndash May 9, 1977) was an American author known for his explorations of World War From Here to Eternity is a 1953 Drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940 The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted Coup d'état committed by parts of the army against the government of An exception to American writers was Pierre Boulle's Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (1952- The Bridge on the River Kwai) He served as a secret agent under the name Peter John Rule and helped the resistance movement in China, Burma and French Indochina. More experimental and unconventional works in the post-war period included Joseph Heller's satirical Catch-22 and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, an early example of postmodernism. Joseph Heller (May 1 1923 – December 12 1999 was an American Satirical novelist Short story writer and playwright Catch-22 is a satirical, historical Novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961 Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr (born May 8 1937 is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of Fiction. Gravity's Rainbow is an epic postmodern novel written by Thomas Pynchon and first published on February 28 1973. Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, William Woodruff's Vessel of Sadness and James Jones' The Thin Red Line, all explore the personal nature of war within the context of intense combat. The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel by Norman Mailer. It was based on his experiences during World War II. This article is about the novel by Irwin Shaw For the Australian television series see Young Lions (TV series The Young Lions is a The Thin Red Line is author James Jones's fictional account of the World War II Galloping Horse portion of the Battle of Mount Austen, specifically

The decades following World War II period also saw the rise in significant parallel genres to the war novel. One is the Holocaust novel, of which A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll, Primo Levi's If This is a Man and If Not Now, When?, and William Styron's Sophie's Choice are key examples. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as Abraham Moses Klein was a Canadian poet journalist novelist and short story writer The Second Scroll is a 1951 Novel by the Jewish-Canadian writer A Primo Michele Levi ( July 31, 1919 &ndash April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian Chemist, Holocaust survivor If This Is a Man (Italian title Se questo è un uomo; United States title Survival in Auschwitz) is a work of witness by the Italian author If Not Now When? is a novel by the Italian author Primo Levi, first published in 1982 under the title Se non ora quando? Plot The story William Clark Styron Jr ( June 11 1925 &ndash November 1 2006) was an American Novelist and Essayist. Sophie's Choice is a Novel by William Styron published in 1979 Another is the novel of internment or persecution (other than in the Holocaust), in which characters find themselves imprisoned or deprived of their civil rights as a direct result of war. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (about imprisonment in a Russian labor camp), and Joy Kogawa's Obasan (about Canada's deportation and internment of its citizens of Japanese descent during WWII) are two examples of novels that address war from alternative perspectives. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (December 11 1918 – August 3 2008 was a Russian Novelist One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Один день Ивана Денисовича Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha) is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Joy Nozomi Kogawa CM (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian Poet and Novelist of Japanese descent Obasan is a Novel by the Japanese-Canadian author Joy Kogawa.

Almost immediately following WWII was the Korean War (1950-1953). The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors was a black comedy set in Korea during the war; it was later made into a movie and a successful television series. H Richard Hornberger ( February 1, 1924 &ndash November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon born in Trenton MASH A Novel About Three Army Doctors, the original Novel that inspired the film MASH and TV series M*A*S*H, was written Also about the Korean war is Canadian Herbert Fairlie Wood's The Private War of Jacket Coates. It is also a comedic take on the war.

Vietnam and after

After World War II, the war that has attracted the greatest number of novelists is the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Graham Greene's The Quiet American was the first novel to explore the origins of the Vietnam war in the French colonial atmosphere of the 1950s. Henry Graham Greene OM, CH (2 October 1904 &ndash 3 April 1991 was an English writer best known as a novelist but who also produced Short stories The Quiet American ( 1955) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is a cycle of Vietnam vignettes that reads like a novel. Tim O'Brien can refer to Tim O'Brien (author, American author Timothy L The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien, about a Platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh is a poignant account of the war from the Vietnamese perspective. Bảo Ninh (born on October 18, 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist and short story writer

In the wake of postmodernism and the absence of wars equalling the magnitude of the two world wars, the majority of war novelists have concentrated on how memory and the ambiguities of time affect the meaning and experience of war. Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism In Psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store retain and subsequently retrieve information In her Regeneration Trilogy, British novelist Pat Barker reimagines World War I from a contemporary perspective. The Regeneration Trilogy is a series of three novels by Pat Barker on the subject of the First World War. Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English Writer and Historian. Ian McEwan's novels Black Dogs and Atonement take a similarly retrospective approach to World War II, including such events as the British retreat from Dunkirk in 1940 and the Nazi invasion of France. Ian McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born June 21, 1948) is a Booker Prize -winning English Novelist See the article Black Dog for disambiguation Black Dogs is a 1992 novel by the Booker Prize -winning British author The atonement is a doctrine found within both Christianity and Judaism. Dunkirk ( French: Dunkerque, dœ̃kɛʀk or; Dutch:; is a harbour city and a commune in the northernmost part of France, in the Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The work of W. G. Sebald, most notably Austerlitz, is a postmodern inquiry into German's struggle to come to terms with its troubled past. W G (Winfred Georg Maximilian Sebald ( May 18, 1944, Wertach im Allgäu &ndash December 14, 2001, Norfolk, England

Some contemporary emphasize action and intrigue above thematic depth. Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October is a technically detailed account of submarine espionage during the Cold War, and many of John le Carré's spy novels are basically war novels for an age in which bureaucracy often replaces open combat. Thomas Leo Clancy Jr (born April 12 1947) is an American author best known for his technically detailed espionage and Military science storylines The Hunt for Red October is a Novel by Tom Clancy. The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet Submarine captain Marko Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the John le Carré is the Pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England Another adaptation is the apocalyptic Christian novel, which focuses on the final showdown between universal forces of good and evil. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Tim LaHaye is the novelist most readily associated with this genre. Timothy F LaHaye (b April 27, 1926 in Detroit Michigan) is an American evangelical Christian minister, Author Many fantasy novels, too, use the traditional war novel as a departure point for depictions of fictional wars in imaginary realms. Fantasy literature is Fantasy in written form Historically speaking the majority of fantasy works have been literature

The post-9/11 literary world has produced few war novels that address current events in the War on Terrorism. The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is the common term for the military political and legal, and ideological conflict and specifically for U One example is Chris Cleave's Incendiary (2005), which made headlines after its publication, for appearing to anticipate the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Chris Cleave (born 1973 is a British writer He was born in London, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Balliol Incendiary is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005 it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity The 7 July 2005 London bombings (also called the 7/7 bombings) were a series of coordinated bomb blasts that hit London's public transport system during

Further reading

Other significant war novelists

• Michael Shaara ("The Killer Angels" - Gettysburg- American Civil War)
• Jeff Shaara ("The Rising Tide (book)" - WWII and many other books)
• Elie Wiesel (Night - Holocaust)
• Martin Amis (Time's Arrow - Holocaust)
• David Bergen (The Time In Between - Vietnam)
• Elias Canetti (Auto da Fe - WWI)
• James Chapman (Glass (Pray the Electrons Back to Sand) - Gulf War)
• Charles Sheehan-Miles (Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War - Gulf War)
• Hugo Claus (Sorrow of Belgium - WWI)
• Stuart Cloete (Rags of Glory - South African War)
• F. Michael Shaara ( June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of Science fiction, Sports fiction, and The Killer Angels ( 1974) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. Gettysburg A Novel of the Civil War is an Alternate history novel written by Newt Gingrich and William R Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South Jeffrey M Shaara (born 1952) is an American novelist, the son of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara. Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30 1928 in Sighetu Marmaţiei, Romania) is a Jewish writer professor political activist Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949 is an English Novelist, Essayist and Short story Writer, the son of writer Kingsley Time's Arrow or The Nature of the Offence (1991 is a novel by Martin Amis. David Bergen (born 1957 is a Canadian Novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Time In Between is a novel by Canadian author David Bergen. Elias Canetti ( 25 July 1905, Rousse, Bulgaria – 14 August 1994, Zurich, Switzerland) was a The phrase auto de fe refers to the ritual of public Penance of condemned heretics and Apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition James Chapman (b 1955) is an American novelist and publisher He was raised in Bakersfield, California, has lived in New York City since 1978 Glass Pray the Electrons Back to Sand is a War novel by James Chapman, published in February of 1994 by Fugue State Press. Charles Sheehan-Miles (b Atlanta Georgia, United States, 1971) is an American veterans advocate and writer Hugo Maurice Julien Claus ( April 5, 1929 &ndash March 19, 2008) was a Flemish Novelist, Poet, Playwright Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete ( July 23, 1897 - March 19, 1976) was a South African novelist essayist biographer and short M. Cutlack (Breaker Morant - South African War)
• E. L. Doctorow (The March - US Civil War)
• William Faulkner (Soldiers' Pay - WWI)
• Sebastian Faulks (Birdsong - WWI)
• Timothy Findley (The Wars, Famous Last Words (book) - WWI/ II)
• Ford Madox Ford (Parade's End - WWI)
• Joseph Heller (Catch-22 - WWII)
• Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain - US Civil War)
• Robert Graves (I Claudius, et al. For the film of the same name see Breaker Morant (film Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant ( 9 December[[ 864]] – 27 February Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York New York) is an American Author whose critically acclaimed and award winning fiction William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner) ( September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American Author Soldiers' Pay is the first Novel written by the American author William Faulkner. Sebastian Faulks CBE FRSL (born 20 April 1953) is an acclaimed English Novelist. Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O Ont ( October 30, 1930 - June 21, 2002) was a Canadian Novelist The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. Ford Madox Ford ( December 17, 1873 &ndash June 26, 1939) was an English Novelist, Poet, Critic Parade's End is a Tetralogy (four related novels by Ford Madox Ford published between 1924 and 1928 Joseph Heller (May 1 1923 – December 12 1999 was an American Satirical novelist Short story writer and playwright Catch-22 is a satirical, historical Novel by the American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961 Charles Frazier (born November 4, 1950) is an award-winning American historical Novelist Frazier was born in Asheville, Robert Graves (24 July 1895 &ndash 7 December 1985 was an English Poet, Translator and Novelist. I Claudius is a Novel by English writer Robert Graves, first published in 1934, that deals sympathetically with the life of - Roman Wars)
• Gustav Hasford (The Short-Timers, The Phantom Blooper - US Vietnam War)
• Walter Dean Myers (Fallen Angels - US Vietnam War)
• Frances Itani (Deafening - WWI)
• Ha Jin (War Trash - Korean War)
• Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark - Holocaust)
• William Woodruff (Vessel of Sadness - WWII)
• D. H. Lawrence (Kangaroo - WWI)
• Robert Ludlum (The Bourne Identity et al. Gustav Hasford ( November 28, 1947 - January 29, 1993) born in Russellville Alabama joined the Marines in 1967 serving as a combat The Short-Timers is a semi-autobiographical novel by former Marine Gustav Hasford about his experience in the Vietnam War. The Phantom Blooper is a 1990 novel written by Gustav Hasford, and the sequel to The Short-Timers. Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Myers August 12, 1937, West Virginia, raised in Harlem) is an African American author of Fallen Angels is a novel that was written by Walter Dean Myers about a group of young Americans in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive Frances Susan Itani (born 25 August 1942) is a Canadian fiction writer poet and essayist Deafening is a 2003 Novel written by Frances Itani. Author Frances Itani brings the reader to a small pre-World War I Ontario Jīn Xuěfēi ( Simplified Chinese: 金雪飞 Traditional Chinese: 金雪飛 born February 21, 1956) is a contemporary Chinese-American War Trash is a novel by the Chinese author Ha Jin, who has long lived in the United States and who writes in English. Thomas Michael Keneally AO (born 7 October 1935 is an Australian novelist playwright and author of Non-fiction. Schindler's Ark is a Booker Prize winning novel (1982 by Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie William Woodruff ( September 12, 1916 - September 23, 2008) was a professor of world history but perhaps most noted for his two autobiographical David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930 was an English writer of the 20th century whose prolific and diverse output included Novels short A kangaroo is a Marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods meaning 'large foot' Robert Ludlum ( May 25, 1927 New York City  – March 12, 2001 Naples Florida) was an American Author The Bourne Identity is a 1980 Spy fiction thriller novel by Robert Ludlum about a retrograde amnesiac who must discover who he is and - Cold War)
• Emilio Lussu (Sardinian Brigade - WWI)
• Józef Mackiewicz (The Road to Nowhere - WWII)
• Norman Mailer (The Naked and the Dead - WWII)
• Colin McDougall (Execution - WWII)
• Boris Pasternak (Dr. Zhivago - Russian Revolution)
• Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer - WWI)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz (The Trilogy - Polish historical)
• Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five - Vietnam / WWII)
• Evelyn Waugh (Sword of Honour - WWII)
• Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors - Korean War)
• J. G. Ballard (Empire of the Sun - WWII)
• Leon Uris (Battle Cry - WWII and Mila 18 - Holocaust)
• Lothar-Guenther Buchheim(Das Boot - WWII)
• Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front - WWI )
• Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun - WWI )
• James Michener (The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Korean War )

Critical studies of the war novel

• Philip D. Emilio Lussu ( December 4, 1890 - March 5, 1975) was a Sardinian Soldier, Politician and a Writer. Józef Mackiewicz ( April 1, 1902 &ndash January 31, 1985) was a prominent Polish language writer and publicist Norman Kingsley Mailer ( January 31, 1923 &ndash November 10, 2007) was an American Novelist, Journalist, The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel by Norman Mailer. It was based on his experiences during World War II. Colin McDougall (1917-1984 was a Canadian author best known for his 1958 Governor General's Award -winning novel Execution. Execution is a 1958 war novel by Canadian novelist and Second World War veteran Colin McDougall (1917&ndash1984 Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к ( — May 30, 1960) was a Nobel Prize -winning Soviet Doctor Zhivago ( Russian: Доктор Живаго, Doktor Zhivago) is a 20th century Novel by Boris Pasternak. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE MC ( 8 September 1886 &ndash 1 September 1967) was an English poet and Author Memoirs of an Infantry Officer is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1930 For the general use of the term "trilogy" see Trilogy. Kurt Vonnegut Jr (November 11 1922 – April 11 2007 (ˈvɒnəgət was a prolific and genre-bending American Novelist known for works blending Satire, Black Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death (1969 by Kurt Vonnegut, is a Post-modern anti-war science-fiction novel Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh (ˈiːvlɪn ˈwɔː (28 October 1903 &ndash 10 April 1966 was an English Writer, best known for such darkly humorous and The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. Richard Hooker (March 1554 – 3 November 1600) was an Anglican priest and an influential theologian. MASH A Novel About Three Army Doctors, the original Novel that inspired the film MASH and TV series M*A*S*H, was written James Graham Ballard (born 15 November in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China) is a British Novelist and Short Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J G Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Leon Marcus Uris ( August 3 1924 - June 21 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep Battle Cry is a Novel by American writer Leon Uris, published in 1953. Mila 18 is a novel by Leon Uris set in German -occupied Warsaw, Poland before and during World War II. Lothar-Günther Buchheim ( ( 6 February 1918 &ndash 22 February 2007) was a German Author, painter, and art Das Boot (das boːt German for The Boat) is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same Erich Maria Remarque (Erich Paul Remark 22 June 1898 &ndash 25 September 1970) was a German author. All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues is an Anti-war Novel written by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran Dalton Trumbo ( December 9, 1905 &ndash September 10, 1976) was an American Screenwriter and Novelist, Johnny Got His Gun is an English language Antiwar novel written in 1938 (published 1939 by American novelist and Screenwriter James Albert Michener ( February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 titles the majority of which The Bridges at Toko-Ri is a 1954 film based on a novel by James Michener about a Naval aviator assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges Beidler, American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam (U Georgia Press)
• Bernard Bergonzi, Heroes’ Twilight: A Study of the Literature of the Great War (Macmillan).
• Peter Buitenhuis, The Great War of Words: British, American and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933 (UBC Press).
• Casadei, Alberto, Romanzi di Finisterre: Narrazione della guerra e problemi del realismo, Roma, Carocci, 2000.
• Evelyn Cobley, Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives (U of Toronto Press).
• Stanley Cooperman. World War I and the American Novel (Johns Hopkins UP).
• Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (Oxford UP). Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena California, USA is a cultural and literary Historian, and professor emeritus of English literature
• ________________, Wartime (Oxford UP).
• David Craig and Michael Egan. Extreme Situations: Literature and Crisis from the Great War to the Atom Bomb (Macmillan).
• Saul S. Friedman, ed. Holocaust Literature: A Collection of Critical, Historical, and Literary Writings (Greenwood Press)
• Harvey, A. D. , A Muse of Fire: Literature, Art and War, London, Hambledon Press, 1998.
• Horowitz, Sara R, Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (SUNY UP). ISBN 0-7914-3130-4
• Mario Isnenghi, Il mito della grande guerra (Bologna, Il Mulino).
• Madison and Schaefer, eds. Encyclopedia of American War Literature (Greenwood Press). ISBN 0-313-30648-6
• Dagmar Novak, Dubious Glory: The Canadian Novel and the Two World Wars (Peter Lang).
• Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War (WW Norton). Edmund Wilson ( May 8, 1895 &ndash June 12 1972) was an American Writer and
• M. Hameed Shahid, [[Mitti Adam Khati Hae]](Earth eats the Adam): Studies in the Literature of the Indo Pak war of 1971.

See also

• American Civil War
• Epic poetry
• Paul Fussell
• William March
• Ernest Hemingway
• The Holocaust in Art and Literature
• Napoleonic Wars
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Stendhal
• Leo Tolstoy
• Vietnam War
• World War I
• World War II
• List of films based on war books

Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South An epic is a lengthy Narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena California, USA is a cultural and literary Historian, and professor emeritus of English literature William March (born William Edward Campbell September 18 1893 – May 15 1954 was an American World War I veteran short-story writer and novelist cited Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. As one of the defining events of the 20th century and one of the most stark examples of human brutality in modern history the Holocaust has had a profound impact on The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын) (December 11 1918 – August 3 2008 was a Russian Novelist Henri-Marie Beyle ( January 23, 1783 &ndash March 23, 1842) better known by his Pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ( –) (Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, was a Russian Writer widely regarded The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A list of films that are based on war books. If a book has been turned into both a film and a TV series (or TV film then the TV series is included

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