/lit/ - Literature

>>14240150
Jack Higgins does good fun books but it will be more along early WWII era

>>14240639
I’m looking for books that attempt to come to terms with WWI and what it meant for ideas about progress, justice, morality, etc written by people actually in the era rather than written about the era. It doesn’t have to be about soldiers or the war itself. Something like Mrs Dalloway would qualify but I’ve already read it.

>>14240672
1919 by Dos Passos
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves

>>14240698
Thank you, I’ll check these out

Storm of Steel
All Quiet on the Western Front
Demian
The Magic Mountain
Berlin Alexanderplatz

>>14240150
All quiet on the western front.

>>14240150
Journey to the End of the Night
The Sun Also Rises

Are there any Russian novels about WW1?
I’ve seen a few about the Revolution and the Civil War but not much about WW1.

>>14240150
i remember this picture being in the cover to a georg trakl anthology, which includes the poem "grodek", about wwi

>>14241220
Is he worth reading in translation? I don’t speak german

>>14241239
i think so

>>14240150
Geoff Dyer's book on the Somme still haunts me.

>>14240150
Schlump
Kaput
Fear

>>14240750
>>14240698
Storm of Steel and Goodbye to All That are nonfiction, but I highly recommend them.

>>14240750
>Storm of Steel
Non-fiction and still superior to every other book

>>14241398
finally someone mentioned Schlump!

>>14240150
Journey to the End of the Night

>>14242393
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>>14240150
>>14240672
I'm reading pic related right now, it's sort of like a worse-written Storm of Steel. The guy wrote it about his time in the interwar period. He came of age just when WW1 ended so by the time he enlisted he missed it but he went on to fight in the Baltics and later in the Frikorps. He talks a lot about how aimless everybody seemed to be just generally switching at will between various left and right wing groups looking for someone who could pick up the pieces.

>>14240150
If someone cares for non-fiction:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1804/1804-h/1804-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/780/780-h/780-h.htm

>>14242905
Also from HG Wells: A Trap to Catch the Sun, The Last War in the World and The World Set Free, all written before WW1

>>14240150
Written by a soldier during the war
>Wanderer zwischen beiden Weltenwas published in 1916 and was well received. By 1917, over 700,000 copies had been printed in Germany—a testament to his extreme popularity with the wartime public.His reputation grew in the post-war years and his romantic idealism was exploited by the Naziparty,

>>14242886
Von Salomon and Ernst Junger were friends in post war Berlin

>>14243557
I don't doubt it, they were both pretty active in the Conservative Revolutionary movement

Johnny Got His Gun

En Parenthesis

>>14240150
Parade's End