List of Authors in War - World War I

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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