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Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments. Not all of these books have a direct connection to any particular anti-war movement. The list includes fiction and non-fiction, and books for children and younger readers.
Remarque's book was partly based on Henri Barbusse's 1916 novel Under Fire. Barbusse was a French journalist who served as a stretcher-bearer on the front lines, and his book was very influential in its own right at the time. By the end of the war, it had sold almost 250,000 copies and read by servicemen of many nations. [13]
New York: Atheneum Books. ISBN 978-0689312090. Meyer, Gerald J. (2017). The World Remade: America in World War I. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0553393323. Mills, Bill B. (2017). Treacherous passage: Germany's secret plot against the United States in Mexico during World War I. Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press.
Storm of Steel became a best-seller in Germany and other countries, and was widely admired by writers and politicians across the political spectrum. The left-wing French writer André Gide wrote in 1942 that "Ernst Junger's book on the 1914 War, Storm of Steel, is without question the finest book on war that I know: utterly honest, truthful, in ...
The book became an international bestseller upon release and is "arguably [Clark's] best-known book". [3] [5] The book received praise for its readability and analysis of sources, but criticism, particularly from within Germany, for its downplaying of Germany's role and disregard of some sources.
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Harold Nicolson wrote in the Daily Express that it was a book "of deep beauty and abiding significance. A book which will, I hope and believe, be read by millions." [3] A Daily Telegraph reviewer said that "Those who in future really want to understand the atmosphere of the years 1916 and 1917, and the conditions of life, will turn back to this ...