Tolkein and Mervyn Peake were both very influenced by WWI when they wrote the LotR and Gormenghast books. Not sure if that’s what you have in mind or if you’re asking for books actually set around that period.
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*To the Lighthouse* by Virginia Woolf
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Good bye to all that by Robert graves
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*All Quiet on the Western Front* by Erich Maria Remarque (fiction).
*Three Soldiers* by John Dos Passos (fiction).
*A Farewell to Arms* by Ernest Hemingway (fiction).
*The Sun Also Rises* by Ernest Hemingway (fiction).
*Johnny Got His Gun* by Dalton Trumbo (fiction).
*The Outlaws* by Ernst von Salomon (post-WWI: Baltic War of Liberation) (fictionalized memoir).
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A Farewell to Arms
Tolkein and Mervyn Peake were both very influenced by WWI when they wrote the LotR and Gormenghast books. Not sure if that’s what you have in mind or if you’re asking for books actually set around that period.
*To the Lighthouse* by Virginia Woolf
Good bye to all that by Robert graves
*All Quiet on the Western Front* by Erich Maria Remarque (fiction).
*Three Soldiers* by John Dos Passos (fiction).
*A Farewell to Arms* by Ernest Hemingway (fiction).
*The Sun Also Rises* by Ernest Hemingway (fiction).
*Johnny Got His Gun* by Dalton Trumbo (fiction).
*The Outlaws* by Ernst von Salomon (post-WWI: Baltic War of Liberation) (fictionalized memoir).
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings