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unusual facts about war novel



Face of a Hero

Though out of print for a long time, interest in this narrative, dealing with the war experience of a B-24 tail gunner in Southern Europe during W.W.II, was rekindled when it was suggested that it inspired Joseph Heller while writing his well-known war novel Catch-22.

The Bolitho novels

The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).


see also

Kartini

She also read De Stille Kracht (The Hidden Force) by Louis Couperus, the works of Frederik van Eeden, Augusta de Witt, the Romantic-Feminist author Goekoop de-Jong Van Eek and an anti-war novel by Berta von Suttner, Die Waffen Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!).

Red Inferno

Red Inferno: 1945, an alternate history WWII war novel by Robert Conroy