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War Stories: 13 Modern Writers Who Served in War: Media
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Ernest Hemingway, 1918
American writer Ernest Hemingway served as an ambulance driver for the American Red...
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Siegfried Sassoon, 1915
English poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was twice wounded while serving in World War...
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Wilfred Owen
English poet Wilfred Owen wrote poems about his experience in World War I that helped...
From Poems, by Wilfred Owen, 1920
George Orwell
English novelist, essayist, and critic George Orwell fought in the Spanish Republic's...
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Joseph Heller, 1986
American novelist Joseph Heller served as a U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier in World...
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Ōoka Shōhei
Japanese writer Ōoka Shōhei was captured by U.S. soldiers while fighting with the...
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Günter Grass, 2009
German writer Günter Grass made his reputation with his debut novel, The Tin...
Dominik Butzmann—laif/Redux
Kurt Vonnegut, c. 1965
American writer Kurt Vonnegut was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II...
Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-gtfy-04376)
M*A*S*H
The acclaimed television series M*A*S*H (1972–83) was adapted from a film...
© Columbia Broadcasting System
Tim O'Brien, 2012
American writer Tim O'Brien, who served in the Vietnam War, published several acclaimed...
© Larry D. Moore
Yusef Komunyakaa, 1998
In 1994 American poet Yusef Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his...
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Ron Kovic (at front) leading a veterans' protest in 1974
American activist and writer Ron Kovic was paralyzed during his service in the Vietnam...
Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive—UCLA Library. Department of Special Collections/© The Regents of the University of California
Phil Klay, 2015
American writer Phil Klay served as a public affairs officer in the U.S. Marines...
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