antiwar novel
Combat-critical literary work
A novel that depicts the horrors, futility, or moral costs of armed conflict, typically to discourage enthusiasm for war.
The genre includes classics like *All Quiet on the Western Front* and *Catch-22*.
Antiwar novels often focus on ordinary soldiers' suffering rather than heroic narratives: The antiwar novel showed combat as chaos and terror, not glory.
- pacifistAnti-violence believer
- trenchesElongated ground excavations
- no man's landUnowned space between enemies
- shellshockTrauma from combat exposure
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
Hemingway · conscription · soldier · cannon fodder · shell shock · battlefield · disillusionment · propaganda · armistice · deserter · trauma · casualties · all quiet · frontline · bombings · resistance · draft · draft dodger
- protest writingmanifesto, pamphlet, polemic, protest poetry, protest songs
- war literaturewar stories, war diary, war journal, war poetry, war memoirs
- social fictionsocial realism, social critique, social drama, muckraking, expose