List of Authors in War - World War II

World War II

  • Brian Aldiss, Royal Corps of Signals, saw action in Burma (Non-Stop, )
  • Kingsley Amis, Royal Corps of Signals (Lucky Jim)
  • Isaac Asimov, Philadelphia Navy Yard Naval Air Experimentation Station, United States Army (Foundation)
  • J. G. Ballard, interned as a boy in Shanghai (Empire of the Sun)
  • Edward L. Beach, Jr.
  • Earle Birney, Canadian Army (Turvey)
  • Pierre Boulle, in British Special Forces (Bridge on the River Kwai)
  • Flt. Lt. Arthur C. Clarke, Royal Air Force (2001: A Space Odyssey)
  • Col. Hal Clement, pilot B-24 Liberator, 68th Bomb Squadron, 44th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, European Theatre (Mission of Gravity)
  • L. Sprague de Camp, Philadelphia Navy Yard Naval Air Experimentation Station (Lest Darkness Fall)
  • Anthony Faramus, survived Fort de Romainville, Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps (Journey Into Darkness. 1990)
  • Frank Kelly Freas, United States Army Air Forces, South Pacific
  • Samuel Fuller – (The Big Red One)
  • H. L. Gold United States Army (Beyond Fantasy Fiction)
  • James Gunn (author), U.S. Navy (This Fortress World)
  • Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier
  • Lt. Robert A. Heinlein, Graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Served in U.S. Navy aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Roper (DD-147), Philadelphia Navy Yard (Stranger in a Strange Land)
  • Joseph Heller, served in 12th Air Force (Catch-22)
  • Frank Herbert, U.S. Navy Seabees (Dune)
  • L. Ron Hubbard, U.S. Navy (The Way to Happiness)
  • James Jones (author), 25th Infantry Division, United States Army, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal (From Here to Eternity, )
  • Cyril M. Kornbluth, United States Army. Bronze Star recipient for service as heavy machine gunner at the Battle of the Bulge (The Space Merchants)
  • 1st Sgt. R. A. Lafferty, United States Army Pacific Theatre (Fourth Mansions)
  • Alistair MacLean, in the Royal Navy (HMS Ulysses)
  • Norman Mailer, served in South Pacific (The Naked and the Dead)
  • Harry Martinson, Swedish volunteer in Winter War (Verklighet Till Döds)
  • John Masters Gurkha officer, served in North Africa and Burma with the Chindits (Bhowani Junction, The Road Past Mandalay)
  • Nicholas Monsarrat
  • Sgt. Frederik Pohl, United States Army Air Forces, 456th Bombardment Group, European Theatre (Gateway)
  • Col. Konstantin Simonov, Soviet Army (The Immortal Garrison)
  • Leon Uris, United States Marine Corps, Pacific Theatre, Guadalcanal, Tarawa (Battle Cry)
  • A. E. van Vogt, Canadian Department of National Defence (Slan)
  • Pvt. Gore Vidal, United States Army (Williwaw)
  • Pvt. Kurt Vonnegut, United States Army infantry soldier, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, captured during the Battle of the Bulge, survived bombing of Dresden as a POW (Slaughterhouse Five)
  • Lt. Evelyn Waugh, in Royal Marines, later Royal Horse Guards served in Crete and Yugoslavia (Men at Arms, The End of the Battle)
  • Jack Williamson, U.S. Army Air Corps (Darker Than You Think)
  • Cpl. John Wyndham, Royal Corps of Signals, landed at Normandy (The Day of the Triffids)
  • Capt. Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet Navy, Soviet Army, 1047th Rifle Regiment, 284th Rifle Division, 62nd Army; subject of (Enemy at the Gates)

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