World War I
- Henri Barbusse, served in France (Under Fire)
- E. E. Cummings, volunteer ambulance driver (The Enormous Room)
- Robert Graves, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (Goodbye to All That)
- Jaroslav Hasek, served in Austrian and Czech armies (who were on opposing sides), (The Good Soldier Svejk)
- Ernest Hemingway, drove ambulances in Italy (A Farewell to Arms)
- Ernst Jünger
- T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)
- C. S. Lewis, British Army, Third Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, served in trench warfare at Somme Valley (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Emilio Lussu, (Sardinian Brigade)
- H. E. L. Mellersh, infantry officer in the East Lancashire Regiment (Schoolboy Into War)
- Erich Maria Remarque, infantry soldier, wounded in Passchendaele (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Siegfried Sassoon, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer)
- 2nd Lt. J. R. R. Tolkien, Lancashire Fusiliers, served in trench warfare at Somme Valley, Battle at Thiepval Ridge and assault on Schwaben Redoubt (The Lord of the Rings)
- Lajos Zilahy, (Century in Scarlet)
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“Bernstein: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler.” Any answer?
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—Orson Welles (1915–1985)
“It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
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—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)