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First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, which was fought between 1914 and 1918, had an immediate impact on
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. In over the hundred years since the war ended, the war has resulted in many artistic and cultural works from all sides and nations that participated in the war. This included artworks, books, poems, films, television, music, and more recently, video games. Many of these pieces were created by soldiers who took part in the war.


Art

The years of warfare were the backdrop for art which is now preserved and displayed in such institutions as the Imperial War Museum in London, the
Canadian War Museum The Canadian War Museum (french: link=no, Musée canadien de la guerre; CWM) is a national museum on the country's military history in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum serves as both an educational facility on Canadian military history, in ad ...
in Ottawa, and the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Official war artists were commissioned by the British Ministry of Information and the authorities of other countries. After 1914, avant-garde artists began to consider and investigate many things that had once seemed unimaginable. As Marc Chagall later remarked, "The war was another plastic work that totally absorbed us, which reformed our forms, destroyed the lines, and gave a new look to the universe." In this same period, academic and realist artists continued to produce new work. Traditional artists and their artwork developed side by side with the shock of the new as culture reinvented itself in relationships with new technologies. Some artists responded positively to the changes wrought by war.
C. R. W. Nevinson Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (13 August 1889 – 7 October 1946) was an English figure and landscape painter, etcher and lithographer, who was one of the most famous war artists of World War I. He is often referred to by his initial ...
, associated with the Futurists, wrote that "This war will be a violent incentive to Futurism, for we believe there is no beauty except in strife, and no masterpiece without aggressiveness."''British Art Since 1900'', Frances Spaulding, 1986 His fellow artist
Walter Sickert Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on d ...
wrote that Nevinson's painting '' La Mitrailleuse'' (now in the
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collection) 'will probably remain the most authoritative and concentrated utterance on the war in the history of painting.' Pacifist artists also responded to the war in powerful ways: Mark Gertler's major painting, '' Merry-Go-Round'', was created in the midst of the war years and was described by D. H. Lawrence as "the best modern picture I have seen" and depicts the war as a futile and mechanistic nightmare. The commissions related to the official war artists programmes insisted on the recording of scenes of war. This undermined confidence in progressive styles as commissioned artists conformed to official requirements. The inhumanity of destruction across Europe also led artists to question whether their own campaigns of destruction against tradition had not, in fact, also been inhuman. These tendencies encouraged many artists to "return to order" stylistically. The
Cubist Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
vocabulary itself was adapted and modified by the
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during "the Great War." The Cubists aimed to revolutionize painting — and reinvented the art of camouflage on the way.Glover, Michael
"Now you see it... Now you don't,"
''The Times.'' March 10, 2007.
British marine painter Norman Wilkinson invented the concept of "dazzle painting" -— a way of using stripes and disrupted lines to confuse the enemy about the speed and dimensions of a ship. Wilkinson, then a lieutenant commander on
Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
patrol duty, implemented the precursor of "dazzle" on SS ''Industry''; and in August 1917 HMS ''Alsatian'' became the first Navy ship to be painted with a dazzle pattern. Solomon J. Solomon advised the British Army on camouflage. In December 1916 he established a camouflage school in Hyde Park In 1920, he published a book on the subject, ''Strategic Camouflage''. Alan Beeton advanced the science of camouflage.''The Influence of the War on art'', Frank Rutter, in ''The Great War'', ed. H.W. Wilson & J.A. Hammerton, London 1919 An early influence of the War on artists in the United Kingdom was the recruiting campaign of 1914–1915. Around a hundred posters were commissioned from artists by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee of which two and a half million copies were distributed across the country. Private companies also sponsored recruitment posters: ''Remember Belgium'', by the Belgian-born Frank Brangwyn and ''The Only Road for an Englishman'' by Gerald Spencer Pryse were two notable examples produced on behalf of the London Electric Railways. Although Brangwyn produced over 80 poster designs during the War, he was not an official war artist. His grim poster of a Tommy bayoneting an enemy soldier (“Put Strength in the Final Blow: Buy War Bonds”) caused deep offence in both Britain and Germany. The Kaiser himself is said to have put a price on Brangwyn's head after seeing the image. Brangwyn states in 1917 that Will Dyson's cartoons were "an international asset to this present war." His exhibition of "War Satires" in 1915 was followed by him being appointed an Australian official war artist. The
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition The Summer Exhibition is an open art exhibition held annually by the Royal Academy in Burlington House, Piccadilly in central London, England, during the months of June, July, and August. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, drawings, s ...
of 1915 was noted for the paucity and general poor quality of paintings on war themes, but ''The Fighting-Line from Ypres to the Sea'' by W. L. Wyllie was noted for its bold experimentation in showing a bird's-eye view of war from an aeroplane. George Clausen's symbolist allegory ''Renaissance'' was the most memorable painting of that 1915 exhibition, contrasting ruins and oppression with dignity and optimism. When exhibited in the spring of 1916,
Eric Kennington Eric Henri Kennington (12 March 1888 – 13 April 1960) was an English sculptor, artist and illustrator, and an official war artist in both World Wars. As a war artist, Kennington specialised in depictions of the daily hardships endured by s ...
's portrayal of exhausted soldiers '' The Kensingtons at Laventie'' caused a sensation. Painted in reverse on glass, the painting was widely praised for its technical virtuosity, iconic colour scheme, and its ‘stately presentation of human endurance, of the quiet heroism of the rank and file’. Kennington returned to the front in 1917 as an official war artist. The general failure of academic painting, in the form of the Royal Academy, to respond adequately to the challenges of representing the War was made clear by reaction to the 1916 Summer Exhibition. Although popular taste acclaimed Richard Jack's sentimental ''Return to the Front: Victoria Railway Station, 1916'', the academicians and their followers were stuck in the imagery of past battle pictures of the
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and Crimean eras. Arrangements of soldiers, officers waving swords, and cavalrymen swaggering seemed outdated to those at home, and risible to those with experience of the front. A wounded New Zealander standing in front of a painting of a cavalry charge commented that "one man with a machine-gun would wipe all that lot out."
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, head of the British War Propaganda Bureau, acting on the advice of
William Rothenstein Sir William Rothenstein (29 January 1872 – 14 February 1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art. Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make art right up until his death. Though he c ...
, appointed
Muirhead Bone Sir Muirhead Bone (23 March 1876 – 21 October 1953) was a Scottish etcher and watercolourist who became known for his depiction of industrial and architectural subjects and his work as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars. A ...
as Britain's first official war artist in May 1916.Vale Royal Borough Council. (2005).
"Whitegate Conservation Area Update," p. 11.
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James McBey James McBey (23 December 1883 – 1 December 1959) was a largely self-taught artist and etcher whose prints were highly valued during the later stages of the etching revival in the early 20th century. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Lett ...
was appointed official artist for Egypt and Palestine, and
William Orpen Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in ...
was sent to France. Orpen's work was criticised for superficiality in the pursuit of perfectionism: "in the tremendous fun of painting he altogether forgot the ghastliness of war". The most popular painting in the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1917 was Frank O. Salisbury's ''Boy 1st Class John Travers Cornwell V.C.'' depicting a youthful act of heroism. But of more artistic importance in 1917 was the establishment on 5 March of the Imperial War Museum and the foundation during the summer of the Canadian War Memorials Fund by Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere and significant work by Australian war artists.
David Bomberg David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Henr ...
's experiences of mechanized slaughter and the death of his brother in the trenches - as well as those of his friend Isaac Rosenberg and his supporter
T. E. Hulme Thomas Ernest Hulme (; 16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father ...
- permanently destroyed his faith in the aesthetics of the machine age. This can be seen most clearly in his commission for the Canadian War Memorials Fund, ''Sappers at Work'' (1918–1919): his first version of the painting was dismissed as a "futurist abortion" and was replaced by a second far more representational version. At the 1918 Royal Academy exhibition, Walter Bayes' monumental canvas ''The Underworld'' depicted figures sheltering in a
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station during an air raid. Its sprawling alien figures predate Henry Moore's studies of sheltering figures in the Tube during the
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of World War II. :''See also the Comité des Étudiants Américains de l'École des Beaux-Arts Paris.''


Painting

Walter Richard Sickert's ''The Integrity of Belgium'', painted in October 1914, was, when exhibited in Burlington House in January 1915 at an exhibition in aid of the Red Cross, recognised as the first oil painting exhibited of a battle incident in the Great War.


John Singer Sargent

Among the great artists who tried to capture an essential element of war in painting was Society portraitist John Singer Sargent. In his large painting '' Gassed'' and in many watercolors, Sargent depicted scenes from the Great War.


Wyndham Lewis

British painter
Wyndham Lewis Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was a British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited ''BLAST,'' the literary magazine of the Vorticists. His novels include ''Tarr'' ( ...
was appointed as an official war artist for both the Canadian and British governments, beginning work in December 1917 after Lewis' participation in the
Third Battle of Ypres The Third Battle of Ypres (german: link=no, Dritte Flandernschlacht; french: link=no, Troisième Bataille des Flandres; nl, Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele (), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by t ...
. For the Canadians he painted ''A Canadian Gun-Pit'' (1918,
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, Ottawa) from sketches made on
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. For the British he painted one of his best known works, '' A Battery Shelled'' (1919, Imperial War Museum)(se

, drawing on his own experience in charge of a 6-inch howitzer at Ypres. Lewis exhibited his war drawings and some other paintings of the war in an exhibition, "Guns", in 1918.


Alfred Munnings

An unlikely war artist was Sir
Alfred Munnings Sir Alfred James Munnings, (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken critic of Modernism. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several presti ...
, who is best known as a painter of purebred racehorses; but he turned his painter's skills to the task of capturing images of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade in the war. His mounted portrait of General
Jack Seely John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, (31 May 1868 – 7 November 1947), also known as Jack Seely, was a British Army general and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from ...
(later Lord Mottistone) on his charger ''Warrior'' achieved acclaim. Forty-five of his canvasses were exhibited at the "Canadian War Records Exhibition" at the Royal Academy, including ''Charge of Flowerdew's Squadron'' at Moreuil Wood in March 1918. Lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew of Lord Strathcona's Horse cavalry, was awarded the
Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously ...
for leading the attack. Less well known are paintings which feature teams of work-horses in the staging areas behind the front lines with the Canadian Forestry Corps. The artist later recalled these days in his autobiography: ::My next move was unexpected and unlooked-for. Amongst the officers who came to have a look, as the news spread that my pictures were to be seen on the walls of ... eadquarters..., there were two colonels, both in the Canadian Forestry Corps ... persuading me that I must go with them and see the companies of Canadian Forestry who were then working in the many beautiful forests of France ....Munnings, Alfred. (1950). ''An Artist's Life,'' pp. 313-315. ::The forest of
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in Normandy was my first experience of painting with the Forestry. Then came the area of the forest of Dreux, one of the finest in France, taking up fifteen square miles of ground... Each company had a hundred and twenty horses, all half-bred
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types, mostly blacks and greys. A rivalry existed between the companies as to which had the best-conditioned teams. I painted pictures of these teams at work, pictures of men axing, sawing down trees...


John Nash

British painter John Nash believed that "the artist's main business is to train his eye to see, then to probe, and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye." The artist's most celebrated war painting is ''
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'' (oil on canvas, 79.4 x 107.3 cm), now hanging in the Imperial War Museum in London. In this painting, the artist presents an image of the 30 December 1917 Welsh Ridge counter-attack, during which the 1st Battalion Artists Rifles (28th London Regiment) left their
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and pushed towards
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near Cambrai. Of the eighty men, sixty-eight were killed or wounded during the first few minutes.Gregory, Barry. (2006)
''A History of the Artists Rifles 1859-1947,''
p. 176.
Nash himself was one of the twelve spared by the machine gun fire in the charge depicted in the painting. He created this artwork three months later. The war artist crafted a chilling, harsh, vivid image. The painting offers a narrative of men moving forward despite the likelihood of not coming back alive: ::As soon as our line, set on its jolting way, emerged, I felt that two men close by had been hit, two shadows fell to the ground and rolled under our feet, one with a high-pitched scream and the other in silence like an ox. Another disappeared with a movement like a madman, as if he had been carried away. Instinctively, we closed ranks and pushed each other forward, always forward, and the wound in our midst closed itself. The warrant officer stopped and raised his sword, dropped it, fell to his knees, his kneeling body falling backwards in jerks, his helmet fell on his heels and he remained there, his head uncovered, looking up to the sky. The line has promptly split to avoid breaking this immobility. But we couldn't see the lieutenant any more. No more superiors, then... A moment's hesitation held back the human wave which had reached the beginning of the plateau. The hoarse sound of air passing through our lungs could be heard over the stamping of feet. Forward! cried a soldier. So we all marched forward, moving faster and faster in our race towards the abyss.Art of the First World War


Arthur Streeton

Australian painter
Arthur Streeton Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (8 April 1867 – 1 September 1943) was an Australian landscape painter and a leading member of the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism. Early life Streeton was born in Mt Moriac, Victoria, sou ...
was an Australian Official War Artist with the Australian Imperial Force, holding the rank of
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. He served in France attached to the 2nd Division. Streeton brought something of the antipodes
Heidelberg school The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. It has latterly been described as Australian impressionism. Melbourne art critic Sidney Dickinson coined the term in an 1891 review of works by Arthur Streeton and ...
sensibility to his paintings of an ANZAC battlefield in France. Streeton's most famous war painting, ''Amiens the key of the west'' shows the
Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
countryside with dirty plumes of battlefield smoke staining the horizon, which becomes a subtle image of war. As a war artist, Streeton continued to deal in landscapes and his works have been criticised for failing to concentrate on the fighting soldiers. Streeton aimed to produce "military still life", capturing the everyday moments of the war. Streeton observed that, "True pictures of battlefields are very quiet looking things. There's nothing much to be seen, everybody and thing is hidden and camouflaged."


Sculpture

A sculpture by Charles Web Gilbert was designed as a part of the Mont St. Quentin Memorial which was dedicated in the mid-1920s at Mont St. Quentin, France. The original memorial to the men of the 2nd Australian Division features an heroic bronze statue of an Australian soldier bayoneting a German eagle.Australian War Memorial: Image number P02205.011, caption. A bronze plaque on the pedestal of the monument reads: 'To the officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the 2nd Australian Division who fought in France and Belgium in the Great War 1916, 1917, 1918.' The statue on top of the memorial and the bas reliefs on its sides, which were sculpted respectively by Lieutenant Charles Web Gilbert and May Butler-George, were removed by the occupying German Army in 1940. They were later replaced with a new statue and new reliefs.


Remembrance

Iconic memorials created after the war are designed as symbols of remembrance and as carefully contrived works of art. In London, the
Guards Memorial The Guards Memorial, also known as the Guards Division War Memorial, is an outdoor war memorial located on the west side of Horse Guards Road, opposite Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom. It commemorates the war dead from the Guards ...
was designed by the sculptor Gilbert Ledward in 1923–26. The edifice was erected on Horse Guards Parade and dedicated to the five Foot Guards regiments of
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. The bronze figures were cast from guns from the Great War, commemorating the
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and other battles.


Literature

World War I has been the subject of numerous novels; by far the most well-known is
Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (, ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World ...
's '' All Quiet on the Western Front'', which presented a bleak view of the war from the German perspective. The war was also the subject of well-known poetry, most notably by
Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced b ...
and Siegfried Sassoon, both of whom served in the war (as did Remarque). Another notable poem is "
In Flanders Fields "In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and ...
" by Canadian soldier
John McCrae Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the ...
, who also served in the war; it led to the use of the
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as a symbol for soldiers who have died in war. Several entire genres grew out of the disillusionment and disappointment of World War I. The hard-boiled detective novels of the 1920s featured bitter veteran protagonists. The horror stories of H. P. Lovecraft after the war showed a new sense of nihilism and despair in the face of an uncaring, chaotic cosmos, very unlike his more conventional horror before the war.
World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
was never quite so fertile a topic as
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
for American fiction, but there were nevertheless a large number of fictional works created about it in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Many
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s, however, have fallen out of print since their original. Numerous scholarly studies have covered the major fictional authors and writings.


By participants

* '' Tell England'' by Ernest Raymond * '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' and '' The Road Back'' by
Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (, ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World ...
(German) * ''
The Good Soldier Švejk ''The Good Soldier Švejk'' () is an unfinished satirical dark comedy novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded, middle-aged man who pretends to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungar ...
'' by
Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical inc ...
(Czech) * '' A Farewell to Arms'' by
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...
(American) * '' The Middle Parts of Fortune'' by Frederic Manning (Australian) * '' Death of a Hero'' by Richard Aldington * '' Ashenden'' by
W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...
* '' A Year on the Plateau'' (or ''Sardinian Brigade'') by Emilio Lussu (Italian) * ''
Parade's End ''Parade's End'' is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford, written from 1924 to 1928. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is mainly ...
'' by
Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals '' The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review'' were instrumental in ...
(British) * '' Under Fire'' by Henri Barbusse (French) * ''
Journey's End ''Journey's End'' is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry c ...
'' by R. C. Sherriff (British) * '' The Spanish Farm'' trilogy by Ralph Hale Mottram (British) * '' Generals Die in Bed'' by Charles Yale Harrison (Canadian) * '' The German Prisoner'' by James Hanley (British) * '' Goodbye to All That'' (memoir) by Robert Graves (British) * ''
Storm of Steel ''Storm of Steel'' (german: In Stahlgewittern, lit=In Steel Thunderstorms; original English title: ''In Storms of Steel'') is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front during the First World War from December ...
'' (memoir) by
Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir '' Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful businessman and ...
(German) * '' Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'' (memoir) by Siegfried Sassoon (British) * '' Testament of Youth'' (memoir) by
Vera Brittain Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir '' Testament of Youth'' recounted her experiences during the Fir ...
(British) * '' Undertones of War'' (memoir) by
Edmund Blunden Edmund Charles Blunden (1 November 1896 – 20 January 1974) was an English poet, author, and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was a ...
(British) * '' Ghosts have Warm Hands'' (memoir) by
Will R. Bird William Richard Bird (May 11, 1891 – 1984) was a Canadian writer, author of fifteen novels, two memoirs, six history books and three travel books. Life and career He was born in rural East Mapleton, Nova Scotia, son of Augusta Bird, a school t ...
(Canadian) * '' The Enormous Room'' by E.E. Cummings (British) * '' The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War'' by
Camil Petrescu Camil Petrescu (; 9/21 April 1894 – 14 May 1957) was a Romanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era in Romania. Life Petrescu was born in Bu ...
(Romanian) * ''
Three Soldiers ''Three Soldiers'' is a 1921 novel by American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. Background H. L. Mencken praised the book in ...
'' by
John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visit ...
(American)


With primary emphasis on the war

* '' Across the Black Waters'' by Mulk Raj Anand * ''The Major'' * ''
Johnny Got His Gun ''Johnny Got His Gun'' is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. A 1971 fi ...
'' * ''
The Blue Max ''The Blue Max'' is a 1966 British war film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and filmed in CinemaScope. The plot i ...
'' * '' The Wars'' * '' Billy Bishop Goes to War'' * '' La guerre, yes sir!'' * '' Regeneration'' and the '' Regeneration Trilogy'' * '' An Ace Minus One'' * '' The General'' * " Rivka's War" * '' Three Cheers for Me'' by
Donald Jack Donald Lamont Jack (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright. Life Jack was born in Radcliffe, Bury, England and grew up in Britain, attending the well regarded Bury Grammar School and Marr College an ...
* '' The Wee Fellas''


With the war as context or background

* '' The Return of the Soldier'' * '' Barometer Rising'' * '' Herbert West–Reanimator'' * ''
Rilla of Ingleside ''Rilla of Ingleside'' (1921) is the eighth of nine books in the '' Anne of Green Gables'' series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbe ...
'' * ''
The Stones Are Hatching ''The Stones Are Hatching'' is a young adult fantasy novel by Geraldine McCaughrean first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press. Plot Eleven-year-old Phelim Green awakes to find his house full of small creatures, led by the Domovoy which ...
'' * '' Fly Away Peter'' * '' Soldier's Pay'' (William Faulkner) * '' How Young They Die'' (Stuart Cloete) * '' Leviathan (Westerfeld novel)''


Theatre

Plays set during World War I include: * ''
Journey's End ''Journey's End'' is a 1928 dramatic play by English playwright R. C. Sherriff, set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry c ...
'' (1928), by R. C. Sherriff * ''
Oh, What a Lovely War! ''Oh, What a Lovely War!'' is an epic musical developed by Joan Littlewood and her ensemble at the Theatre Workshop in 1963. It is a satire on World War I, and by extension on war in general. The title is derived from the "somewhat satirical" ...
'' (1963), by
Joan Littlewood Joan Maud Littlewood (6 October 1914 – 20 September 2002) was an English theatre director who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is best known for her work in developing the Theatre Workshop. She has been called "The Mother of M ...
* '' The Accrington Pals'' (1982), by Peter Whelan * '' Not About Heroes'' (1982), by Stephen MacDonald * '' My Boy Jack'' (1997), by
David Haig David Haig Collum Ward (born 20 September 1955) is an English actor and playwright. He has appeared in West End productions and numerous television and film roles over a career spanning four decades. Haig wrote the play '' My Boy Jack'', w ...
* ''
War Horse The first evidence of horses in warfare dates from Eurasia between 4000 and 3000 BC. A Sumerian illustration of warfare from 2500 BC depicts some type of equine pulling wagons. By 1600 BC, improved harness and chariot designs ...
'' (2007), by
Nick Stafford Nick Stafford (born Nicholas Thomas, 1959 in Staffordshire) is a British playwright and writer. He is best known for writing War Horse (play), the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel ''War Horse (novel), War Horse'', which garnered him a ...


Films

Over 100 films have been set, in whole or in part, in World War I. Among the most notable are: * ''
Shoulder Arms ''Shoulder Arms'' is Charlie Chaplin's second film for First National Pictures. Released in 1918, it is a silent comedy film set in France during World War I, the first of three films he made on the subject of war. It co-starred Edna Purviance ...
'' (1918) - comedy starring Charlie Chaplin * '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' (1921) - drama starring Rudolph Valentino * ''
The Big Parade ''The Big Parade'' is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran, Laurence Stallings, the film is about ...
'' (1925) - an American soldier in
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experiences both tragedy and love * ''
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'' (1927) - shows the relationship between two American World War I fighter pilots * '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1930) - a group of German high school students join the army, but meet tragic fates during the war * '' Hell's Angels'' (1930) - affairs during the war * ''
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'' (1930) - comedy starring Buster Keaton * '' Pack Up Your Troubles'' (1932) - comedy starring Laurel and Hardy * '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1932) - a tragic love story between an American ambulance driver in the Italian army and a
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nurse * ''
Rasputin and the Empress ''Rasputin and the Empress'' is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Richard Boleslawski and written by Charles MacArthur. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the film is set in Imperial Russia and stars the Barrymore siblings (John, a ...
'' (1932) - a biography of Grigori Rasputin, the infamous Russian mystic * ''
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'' (1936) - about British espionage in Switzerland * ''
La Grande Illusion ''La Grande Illusion'' (also known as ''The Grand Illusion'') is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak. The story concerns class relationships among a small group of French officers who ar ...
'' (1937) - a group of French prisoners of war plot an escape * '' The Dawn Patrol'' (1938) - about British pilots fighting in France * '' Sergeant York'' (1941) - a biopic of
Alvin York Alvin Cullum York (December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964), also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I. He received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine ...
, the most decorated American soldier of World War I * ''
Yankee Doodle Dandy ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'' is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George To ...
'' (1942) - a biopic of songwriter and Broadway star,
George M. Cohan George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878November 5, 1942) was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer. Cohan began his career as a child, performing with his parents and sister in a vaudev ...
* '' Wilson'' (1944) - a biopic of
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, the 28th President of America * '' The African Queen'' (1951) - a Canadian boat captain and a female British missionary attempt to evade German forces in German East Africa * '' East of Eden'' (1955) - about an angry young man who wants his deeply religious father to love him like his brother * ''
Paths of Glory ''Paths of Glory'' is a 1957 American anti-war film co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb. Set during World War I, the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of ...
'' (1957) - about a commanding officer of French soldiers who defends them against a charge of cowardice during a court-martial trial * ''
Lawrence of Arabia Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–191 ...
'' (1962) - the adventures of T. E. Lawrence in the
Arab Revolt The Arab Revolt ( ar, الثورة العربية, ) or the Great Arab Revolt ( ar, الثورة العربية الكبرى, ) was a military uprising of Arab forces against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I. On ...
against Turkish rule in present-day
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and Syria * ''
The Blue Max ''The Blue Max'' is a 1966 British war film directed by John Guillermin and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress, Karl Michael Vogler, and Jeremy Kemp. The film was made in DeLuxe Color and filmed in CinemaScope. The plot i ...
'' (1966) - an ambitious German Army Air Service fighter pilot seeks the aerial engagements to earn the German Empire's top military award, based on Jack D. Hunter's novel * '' Oh! What a Lovely War'' (1969) - comedy with an all star British cast * ''
Johnny Got His Gun ''Johnny Got His Gun'' is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. A 1971 fi ...
'' (1971) - an American soldier is rendered immobile after being hit by an artillery shell * '' Gallipoli'' (1981) - several men from rural
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take part in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey * '' Passchendaele'' (2008) - a Canadian soldier experiences both love and tragedy during the months-long Battle of Passchendaele * ''
War Horse The first evidence of horses in warfare dates from Eurasia between 4000 and 3000 BC. A Sumerian illustration of warfare from 2500 BC depicts some type of equine pulling wagons. By 1600 BC, improved harness and chariot designs ...
'' (2011) - a teenage boy whose horse is conscripted for the war joins the British army in order to reunite with it * ''
Wonder Woman Wonder Woman is a superhero created by the American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston (pen name: Charles Moulton), and artist Harry G. Peter. Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Elizabeth, and their life partner, Olive Byr ...
'' (2017) -
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fights in the war for the Allies * ''
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Fo ...
'' (2019) - two young British soldiers are given a mission to deliver a message warning of a German ambush * '' The King's Man'' (2021) - Orlando, Duke of Oxford fights against a secret group that conspires the course of World War 1


Television

There have been several television series and miniseries set during World War I. The fourth series of the 1971–75 British television drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs'', which aired in 1974, was set during the years of World War I and showed the war's effects from the perspective of a townhouse in
London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
. The 1985 Australian miniseries '' Anzacs'' was about members of the
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. It was formed in Egypt in December 1914, and operated during the Gallipoli campaign. General William Birdwood com ...
during World War I and the 2015 miniseries '' Gallipoli'' was about the Gallipoli campaign. ''
Blackadder Goes Forth ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' is the fourth series of the BBC sitcom ''Blackadder'', written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC1. The series placed the recurring characters of Blackadder, Bald ...
'', the fourth and final series of the British sitcom '' Blackadder'', which aired in 1989, presented a satirical view of the war and the British military. '' My Boy Jack'' was a 2007 television film, adapted from the play of the same name, about
Rudyard Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. ...
's son, who was killed in France. The second season of the British television drama ''
Downton Abbey ''Downton Abbey'' is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States o ...
'', which aired in 2011, showed the effects of the war mostly from the perspective of the eponymous estate. The season particularly focused on how great houses in Britain served as convalescent homes during the war. World War I is used for the season 2 episode "The War to End All Wars" of the NBC series '' Timeless''. In the episode, Rufus and Wyatt travel to World War I on September 14, 1918, to save Lucy from Rittenhouse. In addition: * "
Birdsong (TV serial) ''Birdsong'' is a two-part British 2012 television drama, based on the 1993 war novel ''Birdsong'' by Sebastian Faulks. It stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford and Clémence Poésy as Isabelle Azaire and was directed by Philip Martin bas ...
" (2012) * "
Wipers Times ''The Wipers Times'' was a trench magazine that was published by British soldiers fighting in the Ypres Salient during the First World War. In early 1916, the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters stationed in the front line at Ypres, Belgium, came ...
" (2013)


Popular songs

* "
And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a song written by Scottish-born Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. The song describes war as futile and gruesome, while criticising those who seek to glorify it. This is exemplified in the s ...
" (1972), song by
Eric Bogle Eric Bogle (born 23 September 1944) is a Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25, to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of ...
* " No Man's Land" (also known as ''The Green Fields of France'' and ''Willie McBride'') (1976), song by
Eric Bogle Eric Bogle (born 23 September 1944) is a Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25, to settle near Adelaide, South Australia. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of ...
* "Barón Rojo" (1981)
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* "
Christmas in the Trenches "Christmas in the Trenches" is a ballad from John McCutcheon's 1984 album ''Winter Solstice''. It tells the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce between the British and German lines on the Western Front during the Great War from the perspective of ...
" (1984) by
John McCutcheon John McCutcheon (born August 14, 1952) is an American folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 41 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer, and is also proficient on many other i ...
* " Children's Crusade" (1985), song by Sting * " One" (1989), song by Metallica * " All Together Now" (1990), song by The Farm * "
Scream Aim Fire ''Scream Aim Fire'' is the second studio album by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine. The album was released on 28 January 2008 in the United Kingdom and the preceding day in the United States through Jive Records. Since its relea ...
" (2008), song by Bullet for My Valentine * " All Your Friends" (2014), song by
Coldplay Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1997. They consist of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer Will Champion and creative director Phil Harvey. They met at University ...


Video games

There have been comparably few games set during World War I. Many of those that have been made focused on the air war, such as Sopwith (video game), Sopwith from 1984. However, NecroVision is one of the few first person shooters games set in World War I, where the player fights on known battlefields during the war, such as the Somme. ''Call of Duty: Black Ops II'' final DLC pack features "Origins", a zombie map that is set in a dieselpunk France during World War I. ''Valiant Hearts: The Great War'' was released by Ubisoft in 2014. The game is about four characters who help a German soldier find his true love. This Adventure game, adventure is inspired by letters written during World War I. While not many video games are set during World War I there has been a considerable amount of modifications for other games that change these either partially or completely into the World War I setting (such as "The Great War" mod for ''Napoleon: Total War''). On May 7, 2016, EA DICE revealed ''Battlefield 1'', a first-person shooter video game primarily set in World War I featuring the Harlem Hellfighters, the Red Baron and Lawrence of Arabia. It was released on October 21, 2016, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In the 2019 game ''Death Stranding'', player character Sam Porter Bridges encounters hostile skeletal soldiers in American World War I-era uniforms within a World War I trench. Other examples include: * ''Red Baron (arcade game), Red Baron'' (1980) * ''Blue Max (computer game), Blue Max'' (1983) * ''Diplomacy (game)#Diplomacy computer games, Diplomacy'' (1984) * ''Sky Kid'' (1985) * ''Red Baron (video game), Red Baron'' (1990) * ''Wings (1990 video game), Wings'' (1990) * ''Verdun (video game), Verdun'' (2015)


Centennial

The years from 2014 to 2019 represented the centennial of the First World War. Over this period, several groups commemorated individuals, battles, and movements connected to the war, often with an emphasis on national identities.


See also

* British propaganda during World War I * Italian propaganda during World War I * World War II in popular culture * War novel * List of films based on war books * Literature of World War I


Notes


References

* Cohen, Aaron J. (2008)
''Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914-1917.''
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. * Corbett, David Peters. (1997)
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Manchester: Manchester University Press. * Das, Santanu. (2005)
''Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature.''
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. * Meredith, James H. (2004)
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Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.
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''The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: A History.''
Oxford: Oxford University Press. * Viney, Nigel. (1991)
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(Imperial War Museum). Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles.
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