![]() Erich Maria Remarque, infantry soldier, wounded in Passchendaele ( All Quiet on the Western Front).Mellersh, infantry officer in the East Lancashire Regiment ( Schoolboy Into War) Lewis, British Army, Third Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, served in trench warfare at Somme Valley ( The Chronicles of Narnia) Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia ( Seven Pillars of Wisdom) William Hope Hodgson, Killed by the direct impact of an artillery shell at the Fourth Battle of Ypres ( The House on the Borderland).Ernest Hemingway, drove ambulances in Italy ( A Farewell to Arms).Jaroslav Hašek, served in Austrian and Czech armies (who were on opposing sides), ( The Good Soldier Švejk).Robert Graves, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers ( Goodbye to All That).Cummings, volunteer ambulance driver ( The Enormous Room) Henri Barbusse, served in France ( Under Fire). ![]() Some of them are outright memoirs or fictionalized accounts of their exploits. Many of the authors that served in various real-life wars (and survived) wrote stories that are at least somewhat based on their own experiences. ![]()
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