World War I in popular culture  

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World War I has inspired 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. This article consists primarily of lists.

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.

After the war, many participants published their memoirs and diaries. 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 [1]
• 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: 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: 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 978-1-84685-046-2
• Agnes Warner Nurse at the Trenches Diggory Press ISBN 978-1-84685-367-8
• Anon, A War Nurse's Diary, ISBN 1-84685-366-4
• Ward Muir (Royal Army Medical Corps) Observations of an Orderly at an English War Hospital, ISBN 1-84685-035-5
• Anon, Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915, ISBN 978-1-84685-716-4
• 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 1-905363-09-5
• Leslie Buswell, Ambulance No 10, ISBN 1-905363-03-6
• Edward Coyle, Ambulancing on the French Front, ISBN 1-84685-463-6
• Pat Beauchamp, FANNY Goes to War: An Englishwoman in the Fany Corps ISBN 1-905363-05-2
• The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts Edited by E Lyman Cabot et al., ISBN 1-84685-202-1
• June Richardson Lucas, The Children of France and the Red Cross ISBN 1-905363-19-2
• Harriet MacDonald, Harriet Went to War: A Physical Therapy Nurse at the French Front ISBN 1-84685-069-X
• Wyndham Lewis, Blasting and Bombardiering

Novels written from personal knowledge

• Richard Aldington: Death of a Hero
• Henri Barbusse: Under Fire
• John Dos Passos: Three Soldiers
• Jaroslav Hašek: The Good Soldier Svejk
• Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
• John Jackson: Private 12768: Memoir of a Tommy ISBN 0-7524-3531-0
• Edward Lynch: Somme Mud - the war experiences of an Australian infantryman in France 1916-1919
• Emilio Lussu: Sardinian Brigade
• Frederic Manning: The Middle Parts of Fortune (aka Her Privates We - a bowdlerised version)
• 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)
• Henry Williamson: The Patriot's Progress
• 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
• Giuseppe Ungaretti : Italy

Lists

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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! (musical)
• Jeff Shaara: To the Last Man
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: August 1914
• Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun

Poetry and songs (contemporary)

• In Flanders Fields (1915), poem by John McCrae [2]
• On Receiving News of the War (1914), poem by Isaac Rosenberg
• It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary (1914), song by Jack Judge (1878–1938) - sheet music
• Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag (1916), song by Felix Powell (1878–1942) and George Asaf (1880–1951) - RealAudio
• Keep the Home Fires Burning (1915), song by Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford
• Hello Boys! (1919), poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding 1916
• Anthem for Doomed Youth (1917), poem by Wilfred Owen
• Dulce et Decorum Est (1917), poem by Wilfred Owen
• Disabled (1917), poem by Wilfred Owen
• Over There (1917), song by George M. Cohan
• They (1918), poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• Base details (1918), poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• The Rose of No Man's Land (1918), song by Jack Caddigan and James Alexander Brennan - sheet music
• "The Soldier (poem)" by Rupert Brooke

Poetry and songs (latter day)

• "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)" (1967), song by The Zombies
• "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" (1972), song by Eric Bogle
• "No Man's Land" (also known as The Green Fields of France and Willie McBride) (1976), song by Eric Bogle
• "Christmas in the Trenches" (1984) by John McCutcheon
• "Children's Crusade" (1985), Song by Sting
• "All Together Now" (1990), Song by The Farm
• "Paschendale" (2003), Song by Iron Maiden
• "1916" (1991), Song by Motörhead
• "The Green Fields of France", (2005), cover by Dropkick Murphys on song by Eric Bogle

Books

Nonfiction

• Storm of Steel, autobiography of Ernst Jünger. First published 1920 and revised several times through 1961
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922), by T. E. Lawrence Project Gutenburg Australia edition
• Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (1933), memoir by Vera Brittain. Republished (1989) Penguin Classics, 661 pages, ISBN 0-14-018844-4
• Infanterie greift an (Infantry Attacks) (1937), military textbook by Erwin Rommel. English edition: Attacks (1979) Athena Press, ISBN 0-9602736-0-3
• Goodbye to All That (1929), autobiography of Robert Graves, reprinted (1995) ISBN 1-57181-021-8
• Hussar's Picture Book (1972), memoir by Pál Kelemen, 207pp.
• Padre E. C. Crosse and 'the Devonshire Epitaph': The Astonishing Story of One Man at the Battle of the Somme (with Antecedents to Today's 'Just War' Dialogue) (2007), research by David Roberts MacDonald, ISBN 978-1-929569-45-8 Cloverdale Books
• Template:Gutenberg, Punch magazine's history

Fiction

• Le Feu (Under Fire) (1916), semi-autobiographical novel by Henri Barbusse.
• 1920: Dips into the Near Future (1917/1918), war satire by John A. Hobson.
• Rilla of Ingleside (1920), novel by L.M. Montgomery, an account of the war as experienced by Canadian women of the time.
• Three Soldiers (1921), novel by John Dos Passos.
• One of Ours (1922), novel by Willa Cather.
• The Good Soldier Švejk (1923), satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek.
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), novel written by Erich Maria Remarque.
• Death of a Hero (1929), novel by Richard Aldington.
• A Farewell to Arms (1929), novel by Ernest Hemingway.
• The Memoirs of George Sherston semi-autobiographical series of three novels by Siegfried Sassoon.
• Paths of Glory (1935), novel by Humphrey Cobb.
• Johnny Got His Gun (1939), novel by Dalton Trumbo later turned into a film directed by the author.
• La Main coupée (1946) by Blaise Cendrars.
• Joe's War: Memoirs of a Doughboy (1983), autobiography by Joseph N. Rizzi.
• Regeneration (1991), The Eye in the Door, (1993); The Ghost Road, (1995) novels by Pat Barker; also Life Class.
• Birdsong (1993), novel by Sebastian Faulks.
• No Graves As Yet (2003), first volume of a trilogy of novels by Anne Perry.
• Deafening (2003), novel written by Frances Itani.
• Private Peaceful (2004), novel written by Michael Morpurgo.
• A Long, Long Way (2005), novel by Sebastian Barry.
• To the Last Man (2005), novel by Jeff Shaara.
• Turn Right at Istanbul novel by Tony Wright.
• Three Day Road novel by Joseph Boyden.

Films, plays, and television series and mini-series

• J'accuse (1919), movie directed by Abel Gance
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), movie directed by Rex Ingram, from a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• Mare Nostrum (1926), movie directed by Rex Ingram, from a novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• Wings (1927), directed by William A. Wellman, tells the story about two fighter pilots; only silent movie to win the Academy Oscar
• Journey's End (1928), play by R. C. Sherriff
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), movie directed by Lewis Milestone, from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film) produced on the 50th anniversary of the novel
• Hell's Angels (1930), movie directed by Howard Hughes
• The Dawn Patrol (1938), movie starring Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone
• Grand Illusion (1937), directed by Jean Renoir
• Sergeant York (1941), movie directed by Howard Hawks
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), directed by Michael Curtiz
• Paths of Glory (1957), movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb (1935)
• Marš na Drinu (1961), Serbian war film about a Serbian artillery battalion in the Battle of Cer
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962), movie covering events surrounding T. E. Lawrence in the pan-Arabian Theater, starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif and directed by David Lean
• World War I (1964), CBS News documentary narrated by Robert Ryan
• The Great War (1964), TV series by Correlli Barnett and others of BBC
• Doctor Zhivago (1965), movie by David Lean, based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, deals with Russia's involvement in the war and how it led to that country's Revolution.
• The Blue Max (1966), movie directed by John Guillermin, titled after the Prussian military award, or Pour le Mérite
• Oh, What a Lovely War! (1963), a stage musical created by Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop, which was filmed subsequently as Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), directed by Richard Attenborough.
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971), movie of the book directed by the book's author Dalton Trumbo
• Fall of Eagles (1974) BBC mini-series, about the European dynasties' part in bringing about World War I.
• Gallipoli (1981), movie directed by Peter Weir
• Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, (1985), play by Frank McGuinness
• The Lighthorsemen (1987), movie directed by Simon Wincer
• Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), TV series by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
• The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996), PBS.
• Capitaine Conan (1996), movie directed by Bertrand Tavernier
• Regeneration (1997), movie directed by Gillies MacKinnon, from a novel by Pat Barker (1991)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992), television series in which the title character joins the Belgian army and participates in many major battles and events of the war.
• The Lost Battalion (2001), movie and screenplay directed by Russell Mulcahy
• A Very Long Engagement (2004), movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the novel by Sebastien Japrisot (1991)
• Joyeux Noël (2005), Based on the 1914 Christmas truce.
• Flyboys (2006), Movie directed by Tony Bill, tells the story of American pilots who volunteered for the French military before America entered World War I.
• My Boy Jack (2007), Movie about a British boy named Jack Kipling (son of the poet Rudyard) and his war service.
• Passchendaele (2008), movie directed by and starring Paul Gross
• Beneath Hill 60 (2010), movie about the Australian engineers who tunnelled under German lines to plant mines. Directed by Jeremy Sims