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Many of the works during and about the war were written by men because of the war's intense demand on the young men of that generation; however, a number of women (especially in the British tradition) created literature about the war, often observing the effects of the war on soldiers, domestic spaces, and the home front more generally.
Invasion literature (also the invasion novel or the future war genre [1]) is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War (1914–1918).
S. Le Sang noir; Schlump (novel) The Secret Battle; The Silver Donkey; The Singing Tree; A Small Country; The Sojourn; A Soldier of the Great War; A Soldier's Friend
Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84603-5; Meredith, James H. (2004). Understanding the Literature of World War I: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31200-7; OCLC 56086111
All Men Are Enemies – Richard Aldington; Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson – George I. Gurdjieff, 1949; All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque, 1928; The Americanization of Emily – William Bradford Huie, 1964
Catherine Reilly has closely studied women's literature from World War I and its resulting impact on the relationship between gender, class, and society. Reilly's 1981 anthology, Scars Upon my Heart : Women’s Poetry and Verse of the First World War , is the first work strictly dedicated to examining women's poetry and prose from World War I.
The literature of World War I makes its first appearance. John Masefield writes the poem "August, 1914" (published in the September 1 issue of The English Review), the last he will produce before the peace. Stanley Unwin purchases a controlling interest in the London publisher George Allen.
The Guns of August (published in the UK as August 1914) is a 1962 book centered on the first month of World War I written by Barbara W. Tuchman.After introductory chapters, Tuchman describes in great detail the opening events of the conflict.