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Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squadwas one of the first novels about World War I. Published at the end of 1916, it was based on Barbusse's experiences as a French soldier on the Western Front. The novel follows a French squad in the brutal face of the German Invasion. Compared to the many war stories before it, Under Fire is marked by a gritty realism of trench warfare. Barbusse's novel was said to have initiated the anti-war movement in literature that flourished after the war.
Ernst Jünger served in the German front line, fighting both the British and the French for most of World War I. Leading raiding parties, defending trenches against the British, Jüngerkept testing himself, braced for the death that would mark his failure.
All Quiet on the Western Front, also a movie. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. Erich Maria Remarque. German
Mrs Dallowayis a novel by Virginia Woolf. (United Kingdom). In the novel, one of her characters is a shell-shocked war hero. This is a pointed criticism of the treatment of mental illness and depression. Woolf lashes out at the medical discourse through the characters decline and suicide. The doctors make quick decisions about his condition and dismiss him as healthy.
The story starts in Montreal with an unnamed soldier of 20 years old who is getting ready to leave with the Canadian army to go fight the Germans in Europeduring World War I. He starts to build close relationships with some of the fellow soldiers. Soon after, the story shifts to the trenches, where the conditions are unsanitary with lice and fat rats. The narrator changes his perspective about war. When he thought war contained glory and glamour, he finds himself wrong when his comrades start to die. A while later, he is emotionally affected when he kills a German. His emotional status worsens when the rest of his friendsdie. The general tells the team that the Germans sank a hospital ship so they must raid and kill everyone. Then the war is over. The recruits are told that the general lied, the Germans didn’t sink a hospital ship. It was a ship filled with weapons. He then realizes war is basically a chess game for the generals, and the soldiers are just young boys, listening to the orders, with meaningless ideals