"and fictitious, that appear in the novel.) A number of literary critics consider ""The Good Soldier Švejk"" to be one of the first anti-war novels, predating Remarque's ""All Quiet on the Western Front"". Joseph Heller said that if he had not read ""The Good Soldier Švejk"", he would never have written his novel ""Catch-22"". The idiocy and subversion of Švejk has entered the Czech language in the form of words such as ""švejkovina"" (""švejking""), ""švejkovat"" (""to švejk""), ""švejkárna"" (military absurdity), etc. The name has also entered the English dictionary, in the form of ""Schweik"", ""A person likened to the character"
"Bäumer who belongs to a group of German soldiers on the Western Front during World War I. The patriotic speeches of his teacher Kantorek had led the whole class to volunteer for military service shortly after the start of World War I. His class was ""scattered over the platoons amongst Frisian fishermen, peasants, and labourers."" Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates (Leer, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters). There they meet Stanislaus Katczinsky, an older soldier, nicknamed Kat, who becomes Paul's mentor. While fighting at the front, Bäumer and his comrades have to"
"a firing squad, only to be rescued (some of them at least) at the last minute, by Lesba and a troop of rebels. When the rebellion succeeds, Harcliffe marries Lesba and becomes the director of commerce in the new regime. The couple raise their children in a cosmopolitan style, wintering in New Orleans and spending the rest of the year in Brazil. Baum's first adult novel was successful enough to justify a follow-up effort: a second Schuyler Staunton book, ""Daughters of Destiny"", was issued in 1906. A third adult novel, ""The Last Egyptian"", followed. ""The Fate of a Crown"" was"
"the 1930 film based on it. Paul Baumer, the main character, has one of his first experiences of front line duty in a nighttime wiring party. Part way through the work, they are shelled and one of his comrades is killed, the first of many of his friends to die in combat. Wiring party Wiring parties, (or wiring sappers, cutters), were used during World War I on the Western Front as an offensive countermeasure against the enemy’s barbed wire obstacles. Though hazardous and stressful duty, work was done at night to repair, improve, and rebuild their own wire defences, while"
"sell it, but the would-be buyer reveals an astounding story behind that mysterious object: it holds the key to Paul Reiner’s lifelong quest... Munich, 1919. After his family falls into disgrace, 15-year-old Paul Reiner and his mother work as servants in the mansion of Baron von Schroeder, whose wife is Paul’s mother’s own sister. Unhappy and full of despair, Paul dreams of the heroic father he never knew. His mother speaks very little of him, and the von Schroeders revile his memory. To make matters worse, Paul’s cousin Jürgen hounds him at every turn, making his life almost unbearable. But"
"firing range. Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit, and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the Army's ""golden girl,"" and how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell's shocking secret life. The General's Daughter (novel) The General's Daughter is a 1992 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. The novel"
"of the troops. The book also highlighted the rivalry and antagonism between the Special Boat Service and Special Air Service and the history behind their conflict. Such was the success of the book, that Time Warner publishing contracted Falconer to write two military-based novels. The protagonist in these initial novels was ""John Stratton"", created in the author's image and sharing a similar career path within the military, as an SBS operative and operating with an Intelligence Detachment in Northern Ireland. The vast majority of his work to date has retained Stratton as the central character. In ""The Protector"" Falconer introduced"
"produced in 2015 by Jamie Bulloch, with a editorial commentary by Volker Weidermann. Schlump (novel) Schlump. The Story of an Unknown Soldier is a 1928 semi-autobiographical novel by the German author Hans Herbert Grimm. Published anonymously, the book relates the experiences of its protagonist, Emil Schulz, known as ""Schlump"", as a military policeman in German-occupied France during World War I. The work was burnt by the Nazis in 1933 because of its satirical and anti-war tone. The book was initially overshadowed by the success of Erich Maria Remarque's ""All Quiet on the Western Front"", published in 1929. It regained popularity"
"front-line soldiers in [World War I], ... the thrill of combat and the sacredness of death when it is in the service of the fatherland."" Popular writers in this genre included Ernst Jünger and Werner Beumelburg , an ex-officer. Prominent books include Ernst Junger's ""Storm of Steel"" (1920), ""Struggle as Inner Experience"" (1922), ""Storms"" (1933), ""Fire and Blood"" (1925), ""The Adventurous Heart"" (1929), and ""Total Mobilization"" (1931). Novels in this theme often featured an instinctive and soil-bound peasant community that warded off alien outsiders who sought to destroy their way of life. The most popular novel of this kind was"
"Leavenworth when Irving Morrell is posted there in the mid-1930's. It is Ballou who reintroduces Colonel Morrell to Brigadier General Daniel MacArthur, and who reassigns Morrell to be armor commander of MacArthur's occupying force in Houston. In a rather odd move on Turtledove's part, L. Frank Baum is introduced as an American fighter pilot early in the Great War, this despite the fact that Baum was aged 58 in 1914. (Perhaps there is confusion with his son Frank Joslyn Baum) Somewhere along the line, Baum still becomes a children's author. Only his book ""Queen Zixi of Ix"" is mentioned by"
"and for boys. ""The Fate of a Crown"" was his first endeavor for the adult audience. In 1906 he published ""Annabel"" and ""Aunt Jane's Nieces"", juvenile novels for girls, and ""Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea"", a book for boys. (Each of these books was issued under a different pseudonym.) In ""The Fate of a Crown"", Baum wrote an adventure novel that combines elements of political intrigue, melodrama, and mystery story. He set the book in Brazil in 1889, during the revolution that brought the Empire of Brazil to its end. Baum chose the rather daring strategy of including"
"aces. After the war, Bäumer worked briefly in the dockyards before he became a dentist, and reportedly one of his patients, Erich Maria Remarque, used Bäumer's name for the protagonist of his antiwar novel ""All Quiet on the Western Front"". Continuing his interest in flying, he founded his own aircraft company in Hamburg. Bäumer died in an air crash at Copenhagen on 15 July 1927, age 31, while test flying a Rohrbach Ro IX fighter. Paul Bäumer Paul Wilhelm Bäumer (11 May 1896 – 15 July 1927) was a German fighter ace in World War I. Bäumer was born on"
"in Baum's canon for its expression of his views and feelings on World War I. The book was furnished with an introductory note by ""Edith Van Dyne,"" an unusual though not unprecedented step for books in the series. (The second book, ""Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad"", also features an author's introduction.) In this introduction, Baum wrote, The novel opens on 7 September 1914; the continuing characters Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and their uncle John Merrick are reading a newspaper account of the end of the Siege of Maubeuge and the German victory. Both of the girls are intensely concerned with"
"all the boys are young, their youth has left them. In addition, the massive loss of life and negligible gains from the fighting are constantly emphasized. Soldiers' lives are thrown away by their commanding officers who are stationed comfortably away from the front, ignorant of the daily terrors of the front line. Kropp was in Paul's class at school and is described as the clearest thinker of the group as well as the smallest. Kropp is wounded towards the end of the novel and undergoes a leg amputation. Both he and Bäumer end up spending time in a Catholic hospital"
"The General (C. S. Forester novel) The General is a 1936 novel by C. S. Forester, who is also known for his Horatio Hornblower novels and 1935's ""The African Queen"". ""The General"" follows the career of a professional soldier, Herbert Curzon, from his service as a junior officer in the Second Boer War through his experiences as a senior commander in the Great War. While personally courageous and dedicated, Curzon is otherwise unexceptional: an officer like many others, and it is the very ordinariness of Forester's character that serves to give the novel power. On mobilization in August 1914, Curzon"
"to the Army; rising to the rank of Colonel. From 1923 to 1930, he served as the head of the military hospital near Olomouc. In 1935, he was elected to the , but resigned in 1938 following the Anschluss. Throughout the Nazi occupation and the communist regime, he remained isolated and was able to publish only a few newspaper articles, written under pseudonyms. Under the influence of Josef Florian, he published his first novel, """" (Wandering, 1929), an historical piece set in the time of the Thirty Years' War, then ""Služebníci neužiteční"" (Roughly: Servants are Useless), a novel about Jesuit"
"acquire a Belgian chauffeur named Maurie as an ambulance driver; he provides comic relief for the book, in somewhat the same way as the chauffeur Wampus does in ""Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John"". The protagonists cope with military bureaucracies and confront the horrors of the battlefield — though Baum, ""in keeping with his Van Dyne persona...kept his descriptions mild."" Beth has previously had a year of nursing training; but Patsy is a neophyte who is shocked at the conditions she encounters. Doctor Gys reacts with paralyzing fear on his first exposure to combat, but his medical discipline soon takes"
"men are sacrificed in war, one irony being that the authorities spend more time and energy on the niceties of Grischa's case than they do on trying to save their own soldiers from their fate. Some major actors in the war are feebly disguised: General Ludendorff is ""Schieffenzahn"", the politician Matthias Erzberger is ""Deputy Hemmerle"", General Max Hoffmann is ""Clauss"", and Field Marshal von Eichorn is ""von Lychow"". The first film based on the novel was created in 1930 in the USA, a second one was made in Germany in 1968. The East German television aired a mini-series based on"
"The Winter Soldier (2018 novel) The Winter Soldier is a 2018 historical novel written by Daniel Mason. Set in 1914 Vienna, it tells the story of Lucius, a 22-year-old medical student, and a field hospital nurse following the outbreak of World War I. The novel focuses on themes including war, historical medical practices, family, and the role of chance in the formation of relationships, history and penance. It also describes the origins and early treatment of what Mason describes as ""a new disease, born of the war"", post traumatic stress disorder. Since the book's release Mason has stated that the"
"The General's Daughter (novel) The General's Daughter is a 1992 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. The novel introduces protagonist Paul Brenner, who is also featured in DeMille's novels ""Up Country"" and ""The Panther"". ""The General's Daughter"" was made into a 1999 film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. In the movie, Captain Ann Campbell's first name was changed to Elisabeth. Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General ""Fighting Joe"" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found naked and bound on the"
"The Charioteer The Charioteer is a 1953 war novel by Mary Renault. It was first published in the United States in 1959. ""The Charioteer"" is significant because it features a prominent gay theme at an early date and quickly became a bestseller within the gay community. This romance novel is set in the period of World War II at a military hospital during nightly bomb raids and blackouts. The story's protagonist, Laurie 'Spud' Odell, is a young soldier wounded at Dunkirk (Renault worked as a nurse during the war), who must decide if his affections lie with a conscientious objector"
"recently become known for his novels, especially the ""Zamonia"" series. Moers wrote both the script and the song lyrics for the movie ""Kleines Arschloch - Der Film"" (1997) and the script for the movie ""Käpt'n Blaubär - Der Film"" (1999). The first novel of the ""Zamonia"" series, ""Die 13½ Leben des Käpt’n Blaubär,"" was originally published in 1999. The Captain Bluebear appearing in this novel is very distinct from the one portrayed in a popular German children's series ""Sendung mit der Maus"". Whereas there, Capain Bluebear appears as a grandfather, he is still a youngster in the novel. The book"
"years old, and serves as their leadership figure. He also represents a literary model highlighting the differences between the younger and older soldiers. While the older men have already had a life of professional and personal experience before the war, Bäumer and the men of his age have had little life experience or time for personal growth. Kat is also well known for his ability to scavenge nearly any item needed, especially food. At one point he secures four boxes of lobster. Bäumer describes Kat as possessing a sixth sense. One night, Bäumer along with a group of other soldiers"
"march for pragmatic reasons: the money. While Mailer dips into familiar territory, his fiction—self-portrait—the outlandish, third person account of himself along with self-descriptions such as a novelist/historian, anti-star/hero are made far more complex by the narrative's overall generic identification as a nonfiction novel. Two years before ""Armies"" was published, ""In Cold Blood"" by Truman Capote, who had just been called by George Plimpton (among others) the ""inventor"" of the nonfiction novel, claimed that the genre should exclude any mention of its subjectivity and refrain from the first person. While to some extent satirizing Capote's model, Mailer's role in center stage"
"Schlump (novel) Schlump. The Story of an Unknown Soldier is a 1928 semi-autobiographical novel by the German author Hans Herbert Grimm. Published anonymously, the book relates the experiences of its protagonist, Emil Schulz, known as ""Schlump"", as a military policeman in German-occupied France during World War I. The work was burnt by the Nazis in 1933 because of its satirical and anti-war tone. The book was initially overshadowed by the success of Erich Maria Remarque's ""All Quiet on the Western Front"", published in 1929. It regained popularity in 2013 when Grimm was identified as the author. An English edition was"
"an officer of the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam in 1968. The novel's main antagonist, General Lemming, was based heavily on the commanding general, Julian Ewell. The July 28, 1972 issue of LIFE magazine included a profile written by Thomas Moore of then Major Bunting examining his decision to leave West Point because of his desire to ""disassociate [himself] from the active implementation of [the Army's] policy in Vietnam..."" In the article Bunting also stated that he favored a ""citizen draft and civilian control over the military"" and that he didn't ""want to see that son of a bitch who"
"of fortune is harder to specify. The psychological shock of the trench-warfare carnage of World War I may have inspired a wave of nostalgia for a simpler time, with Baum's books representing a lost ""age of innocence."" The Tin Woodman of Oz The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter is the twelfth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum and was originally published on May 13, 1918. The Tin Woodman is unexpectedly reunited with"
"A Barnstormer in Oz A Barnstormer in Oz: A Rationalization and Extrapolation of the Split-Level Continuum is a 1982 novel by Philip José Farmer and is based on the setting and characters of L. Frank Baum's ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"". The central character of the novel is Hank Stover, a pilot and the son of Dorothy Gale, who finds himself in Oz when his plane gets lost in a green cloud over Kansas in 1923. The Oz he discovers is on the brink of civil war; he encounters Erakna, the new Wicked Witch. Farmer takes an unusual approach to"
"The Executioner's Song The Executioner's Song (1979) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning true crime novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events related to the execution of Gary Gilmore for murder by the state of Utah. The title of the book may be a play on ""The Lord High Executioner's Song"" from Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Mikado"". ""The Executioner's Song"" is also the title of a poem by Mailer, published in ""Fuck You"" magazine in September 1964 and reprinted in ""Cannibals and Christians"" (1966), and the title of one of the chapters of his 1974 novel ""The Fight"". Notable for its"
"""The Lantern Bearers"" (1959), and ""Sword at Sunset"" (1963). The story is set in 3rd-century Roman Britain, when Marcus Aurelius Carausius (Curoi), the military commander, has rebelled against Rome and named himself the emperor of Britain and northern Gaul. After a series of naval victories, he is temporarily recognized by Rome's ruler Maximian. Justin (Tiberius Lucius Justinianus), a shy young army surgeon who had just completed his apprenticeship in Beersheba, is posted to Britain for the first time, although his family has been connected with the island for years. On arriving at Rutupiae, he meets a young Centurion called Flavius"
"men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, ""You're going to be soldiers—and that's ""all""."" The new soldiers arrive by train at the combat zone, which is mayhem, with soldiers everywhere, incoming shells, horse-drawn wagons racing about, and prolonged rain. One in the group is killed before the new recruits can reach their post, to the alarm of one of the new soldiers (Behn). The new"
"as sympathetic characters, the undoubted allies of the main protagonist. Like numerous like-minded people in different countries, Ambler was shocked and disillusioned by the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939. His post-war anti-Communist novel ""Judgment on Deltchev"" (1951), based on the Stalinist purge-trials in Eastern Europe, caused him to be reviled by many former Communist Party and other progressive associates. When World War II broke out, Ambler entered the army as a private soldier. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1941. He was soon reassigned to photographic units. He ended the war as a Lieutenant-Colonel and assistant director of the"
"by Telos Press Publishing in 2015. Sturm (novella) Sturm is a 1923 World War I novella by the German writer Ernst Jünger. It has a frame story set in the days before the Somme Offensive on the Western Front, where a group of German officers meet to discuss the war and listen to the literary sketches read by one of their members, Lieutenant Sturm. ""Sturm"" was serialised in ""Hannoverscher Kurier"" from 11 to 27 April 1923. The novella was forgotten even by Jünger until it was rediscovered in 1960. It was published in book form in 1963. An English translation"