"but later progressed into an anti-war song after Corr had read the novel ""Birdsong"" by Sebastian Faulks, which describes a man's life during World War I. The novel influenced her to evaluate how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have impacted society. Corr has called these wars an ""immense waste"" because they destroy the ""beautiful things in life"". Corr was also deeply moved by photographs of young soldiers that had been killed. She has said that these photographs made her think of the ""children [the deceased] won't have and the husband or wife they've left behind or won't marry."" ""Shame"
"Unconditional Surrender (novel) Unconditional Surrender is a 1961 novel by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh. The novel has also been published under the title The End of the Battle. Along with the other two novels in the series, it was adapted into a 2001 TV film with Daniel Craig. ""Unconditional Surrender"" is the third novel in Waugh's ""Sword of Honour"" series, the author's examination of the Second World War. The novels loosely parallel Waugh's wartime experiences. Guy Crouchback spends 1941–1943 in Britain, mostly at desk jobs. He turns 40 and, with Germany's invasion of Russia and Britain's subsequent alliance with"
"war. Through his eyes, Faulks tells the reader about the first day on the Somme in July 1916 and the Battle of Messines near Ypres in the following year. Several episodes depict a downtrodden Stephen whose only respite is his friendship with Captain Michael Weir and his men. Stephen gains the reputation of a cold and distant officer. He refuses all offers of leave, because he is committed to fighting the war. His story is interleaved with that of Jack Firebrace, a former miner employed with the tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in the British trenches to listen for"
"surprisingly non-belligerent tone for a Second World War novel"" and the ""unprecedented"" for a novel published during a war ""central heroism of Joseph Kilkey"" who is a conscientious objector. Two other works published during World War II, ""The Ocean"" (1941) and ""Sailor's Song"" (1943), explore ""virtually identical"" situations, that involve ships that have ""been torpedoed and sunk mid-ocean"". This is a similar plot to that of the conclusion of the earlier novella ""Narrative"", which is set during the previous war. Hanley also published, in 1943, ""No Directions"", which is set during the London Blitz, a work that has been commented"
"historical novels – ""The Junkers"" (1968), ""Polonaise"" (1976), ""The Free Frenchman"" (1986), are set in Continental Europe around World War II; and ""Alice in Exile"" (2001) in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution . Read’s contemporaneous novels – ""A Married Man"" (1979), ""A Season in the West"" (1988), and ""The Misogynist"" (2010) - are ironic critiques of the manners and morals of the English upper-middle classes. There are elements of the thriller in ""The Villa Golitsyn"" (1981), ""On the Third Day"" (1990), ""A Patriot in Berlin"" (1995), ""Knights of the Cross"" (1997) and ""The Death of a Pope"""
"Charlotte Gray (novel) Charlotte Gray is a 1999 novel by Sebastian Faulks. Faulks completes his loose trilogy of books about France with this story of the adventures of a young Scotswoman, Charlotte Gray, who becomes an agent of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) assigned to work with the French Resistance in Vichy France during World War II. The story and title character are thought to be based on the exploits of SOE agents Nancy Wake and Pearl Witherington. A film based on the book was produced in 2001. It stars Cate Blanchett and was directed by Gillian Armstrong. In 1942,"
"novel ""Goshawk Squadron"" (1971) by Derek Robinson depicts a British air-force unit in the closing months of World War I and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ""Three Cheers for Me"" (1962) and its sequel ""That's Me in the Middle"" (1973) by Donald Jack, are narrated by fictional Canadian air ace Bart Bandy; both won the Leacock Medal. Canadian novelist Timothy Findley's novel of the conflict ""The Wars"" was published in 1977 and it received his country's top award for literature. ""War Horse"" (1982) by Michael Morpurgo is set in World War I and won the Whitbread Book Award for"
"the plot revolving around the relationship between two sisters, Claire and Pauline Norris, and their romantic entanglement with a man named Clement. ""The Singing Captives"" is set in 1920 and examines the War's destructive consequences for a well-to-do family. ""The Wedgwood Medallion"" moves on from the War, focusing on an engaged couple who discover their incompatibility, triggering events that draw in their families and friends. ""Inigo Sandys"" begins in Cambridge University after the War, where the eponymous protagonist struggles with the first of three doomed relationships. Several characters from ""Quiet Interior"" reappear in this novel. ""Helen and Felicia"" and ""Morning"
"about twenty years later in 1938. War Game (novel) War Game is a children's novel about World War I written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published by Pavilion in 1993. It features four young English soldiers and includes football with German soldiers during the Christmas truce, ""temporary relief from the brutal and seemingly endless struggle in the trenches"". ""War Game"" won the 1993 Nestlé Children's Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and overall. Foreman was a commended runner up for the annual Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the best children's book illustration by a British subject."
"(1929), Arnold Zweig's ""Der Streit un den Sergeanten Grischa"" (1927) (""The Case of Sergeant Grischa""), Charles Yale Harrison's ""Generals Die in Bed"" (1930). and William March's ""Company K"" (1933). Novels about World War I appeared less in the 1930s, though during this decade historical novels about earlier wars became popular. Margaret Mitchell's ""Gone with the Wind"" (1936), which recalls the American Civil War, is an example of works of this trend. William Faulkner's ""The Unvanquished"" (1938) is his only novel that focuses on the Civil War years, but he deals with the subject of the long, aftermath of it in"
"Regeneration (novel) Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the ""New York Times Book Review"" as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. It is the first of three novels in the ""Regeneration Trilogy"" of novels on the First World War, the other two being ""The Eye in the Door"" and ""The Ghost Road"", which won the Booker Prize in 1995. The novel was adapted into a film by the same name in 1997 by"
"in which Hitler was kept is walled off forever. The New York Times reviews this novel: The Berkut The Berkut is a 1987 secret history novel by Joseph Heywood in which Adolf Hitler survives World War II. It is set in the period immediately after the fall of The Third Reich. This book pits a German colonel and a Russian soldier from a secret organization against each other. The German, Günter Brumm, has been given orders to safely get the Führer out of Germany with the remaining resources of the Reich at his disposal, while Vasily Petrov, the Russian, has"
"that the ""too warm and fuzzy"" epilogue should have been left out. Cauldron (Bond novel) Cauldron is a technothriller novel by Larry Bond. The book explores a fictional modern world war scenario, set in the nineties and involving the dissolution of NATO. Economic upheaval around the world in the early 1990s becomes an opportunity for France and Germany to consolidate their power in Europe through an alliance called the European Confederation or EurCon. However, it is a continental partnership in name only; France provides the political power with the Germans carrying economic muscle. The instability and the countries' differences with"
"the published version did not fully do justice to the experience of war: it did not provide readers with ""a full appreciation of the soldiers' physical experience; and, perhaps more importantly, a philosophical understanding of what it meant to be part of the first genocidal event of the century – the one that made the others imaginable"". Because Faulks felt that much of the extant World War I literature was deeply influenced by World War II literature, he deliberately avoided research with secondary documents, such as historical monographs, instead focusing on veteran interviews and period primary sources. The novel was"
"World War. The post-1918 period produced a vast range of war novels, including such ""home front"" novels as Rebecca West's ""The Return of the Soldier"" (1918), about a shell shocked soldier's difficult re-integration into British society; Romain Rolland's ""Clérambault"" (1920), about a grieving father's enraged protest against French militarism; and John Dos Passos's ""Three Soldiers"" (1921), one of a relatively small number of American novels about the First World War. Also in the post–World War I period, the subject of war tis dealt with in an increasing number of modernist novels, many of which were not ""war novels"" in 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"
"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"
"War historical novels: ""The Killer Angels"" by Michael Shaara, and ""Gods and Generals"" and ""The Last Full Measure"" by Jeffrey Shaara. In the films ""Gettysburg"" (1993) and ""Gods and Generals"" (2003), based on the first two of these novels, Hancock is portrayed by Brian Mallon, and is depicted in both films in a very favorable light. A number of scenes in the novel ""Gods and Generals"" that depict Hancock and his friend Lewis A. Armistead in Southern California before the war were omitted from the film. Hancock's Washington D.C. equestrian statue is featured in the opening to the Netflix series"
"book is set during the Cold War and I wanted it to not just be a crime story but to also have a political background. I was also determined that although the book is set in 1967, I wanted the issues that it touches on to still be alive to us today"". During May 2006 Sebastian Faulks was approached by Ian Fleming Publications and asked to write a Bond book for Ian Fleming's centenary. Although he initially refused, he was persuaded after he re-read Fleming's novels and the company gave him an article by Fleming in 1962—""How to Write a"
"Burt, Daniel S. ""The Novel 100"". Checkmark Books, 2003. The Good Soldier The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique that formed part of Ford's pioneering view of literary impressionism. Ford employs the device of the unreliable narrator to great effect as"
"War Game (novel) War Game is a children's novel about World War I written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published by Pavilion in 1993. It features four young English soldiers and includes football with German soldiers during the Christmas truce, ""temporary relief from the brutal and seemingly endless struggle in the trenches"". ""War Game"" won the 1993 Nestlé Children's Book Prize in ages category 6–8 years and overall. Foreman was a commended runner up for the annual Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the best children's book illustration by a British subject. In 2001 the book was adapted"
"at the end of the novel, to continue the ongoing fight against the Empire. The Truce at Bakura The Truce at Bakura is a 1993 science fiction novel by Kathy Tyers, set in the ""Star Wars"" universe. It takes place immediately after the events depicted in the 1983 film ""Return of the Jedi"". It is followed by the novel ""The Glove of Darth Vader"". The book was later turned into an audio version, narrated by Anthony Heald. Galoob also released models of the ships and characters from the novel as part of its ""Star Wars"" ""Micro Machines"" range. While recovering"
"From 2013 - 2018 he sat on the Government Advisory Group for the Commemoration of the First World War. The Literary Review has said that ""Faulks has the rare gift of being popular and literary at the same time""; the Sunday Telegraph called him ""One of the most impressive novelists of his generation ... who is growing in authority with every book"". Faulks' 2005 novel, ""Human Traces"", was described by Trevor Nunn as ""A masterpiece, one of the great novels of this or any other century."" Faulks is best known for his three novels set in early twentieth-century France.The first,"
"The First Casualty The First Casualty (2005) is a historical crime novel by English author Ben Elton, set during the First World War. In June 1917, whilst recovering from shell shock inside a military hospital, beloved war poet and dedicated soldier Viscount Abercrombie is inexplicably shot dead. Meanwhile, Douglas Kingsley, a liberal Inspector for Scotland Yard, has refused national service because he considers the war to be an affront to his highly prized sense of logic. As a result, he's hauled before a judge, branded a coward by those who love him - including his wife Agnes - and thrown"
"written against a background of the end of World War I in 1918, but it is also filled with flashbacks to a pre-World War I time on a South Pacific island. While the Melanesian island of Eddystone isn't caught up in the world's woes, it constantly fights for its own existence The Ghost Road The Ghost Road is a war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. It is the third volume of a trilogy that follows the fortunes of shell-shocked British army officers towards the end of the First World War. The"
"Carrie's War Carrie's War is a 1973 British children's novel by Nina Bawden set during the Second World War. It follows two young London evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick, into a Welsh village. It is often read in schools for both its literary and its historical interest. A frame story has Carrie visiting the town as a widow with three children. She tells the children what happened thirty years before. Carrie Willow and her younger brother Nick are evacuated to a rundown mining town in Wales during the Second World War. They stay with the shopkeeper Mr Evans"
"are set in Europe at the time of World War II and reflect her experience of the time. The first of this setting, ""The Morning Gift"" (1993), became a best-seller. Her last novel for adults was ""A Song for Summer"" (1997), also set during World War II. Critics have observed similarities between Ibbotson's ""Platform 13"" in ""The Secret of Platform 13"" (1994) and J.K. Rowling's ""Platform 9 3/4"" in the ""Harry Potter"" books (from 1997), both located at King's Cross station in London. The journalist Amanda Craig has written about the similarities: ""Ibbotson would seem to have at least as"
"Cauldron (Bond novel) Cauldron is a technothriller novel by Larry Bond. The book explores a fictional modern world war scenario, set in the nineties and involving the dissolution of NATO. Economic upheaval around the world in the early 1990s becomes an opportunity for France and Germany to consolidate their power in Europe through an alliance called the European Confederation or EurCon. However, it is a continental partnership in name only; France provides the political power with the Germans carrying economic muscle. The instability and the countries' differences with the United States causes the dissolution of NATO in 1996. The main"
"human endurance"" and explore the effect of carnage on the psyche. A reviewer for ""Kirkus Reviews"" also highlighted this theme, writing that ""the war, here, is Faulks's real subject, his stories of destroyed lives, however wrenching, only throwing its horror into greater relief and making it the more unbearable"". The contemporary historian Simon Wessley describes the novel, alongside Barker's ""Regeneration"", as an exemplar of contemporary fiction which uses the experience of the World War I trenches to examine more contemporary understandings of PTSD. De Groot argues that this reinvestigation of a traumatic history mirrors a growing interest among both literary"
"novel often focus on the fluid reading experience as well as the novel's effective treatment of ""'real' people"" within the trauma of war. Gorra describes the novel as mostly a strong WWI novel, characterising it as ""superb"" with prose that is ""spare and precise"". The review published in ""Kirkus Reviews"" was glowing: ""Once more, Faulks shows his unparalleled strengths as a writer of plain human life and high, high compassion. A wonderful book, ringing with truth."" Consistently one of the greatest critiques of the novel concerns its 1970s plot-line. For example, Gorra found that the addition of a parallel narrative"
"The Good Soldier The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915 novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedy of Edward Ashburnham, the soldier to whom the title refers, and his own seemingly perfect marriage and that of two American friends. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique that formed part of Ford's pioneering view of literary impressionism. Ford employs the device of the unreliable narrator to great effect as the main character gradually reveals a version of events"
"for doing so. In Yealland’s view, patients were more amenable to the suggestion that they suffered from a physiological disturbance that could be potentially remedied by a physical treatment such as faradism. ""Regeneration (1991)"" is the first of a series of novels that deals with the psychological trauma caused by World War I on English officers who fought on the front lines. The plot revolves around the character of Siegfried Sassoon, a decorated officer who is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh because he is said to be suffering from ""Shell Shock"". Phil Klay is a graduate of Dartmouth"
"title, which was more a companion novel than a novelization of the film, although it features many of the scenes that were originally cut. Fuller was a World War II veteran and served with the 1st Infantry Division, which is nicknamed ""The Big Red One"" for the red numeral ""1"" on the Division's shoulder patch. He received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart during his service. He was present at the liberation of the Falkenau concentration camp. In November 1918, a private, using his trench knife, slays a German soldier, who was approaching with his arms raised and"