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Period

World War I & Interwar Era

1914–1939 CE

World War I and the Interwar Era covers the war of 1914–1918 and the two unsettled decades that followed. It includes the Western Front, the home front, revolution, peace settlements, trauma, espionage, fascism, the Spanish Civil War and the political crises that led toward another world war.

Combining these periods at the top level gives readers a clearer route through early twentieth-century fiction. Many novels about the 1920s and 1930s are shaped directly by the memory of the First World War, while wartime stories often lead into disillusionment, grief, radical politics and intelligence work.

This category supports war fiction, literary novels, family sagas, spy fiction and political thrillers. It works for books about trench warfare, nurses, conscientious objectors, veterans, aristocratic decline, revolutionary Europe, interwar Britain and France, Weimar Germany and the road to the Second World War.

Related people for World War I & Interwar Era

Abraham Lincoln1809–1865 Ada Blackjack1898–1983 Adolf Hitler1889–1945 Al Capone1899–1947 Alice Wheeldon1866–1919 Arnold Wilson1884–1940 Arthur John Brock1879–1947 Arthur Maurice Hocart1883–1939 Asa Jennings1877–1933 Benito Mussolini1883–1945 Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881 Bertrand Russell1872–1970 Charles George Gordon1833–1885 David Lloyd George1863 – 1922 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig1861–1928 Edward VIII1894–1972 Eleanor Rooseveltborn 1960 Erwin Rommel1891–1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon1866–1923 George VI1895–1952 Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia1901–1918 H. H. Asquith1852–1928 Haile Selassie1892–1975 Harry S. Truman1884–1972 Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston1784–1865 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener1850–1916 Howard Carter1874–1939 Jomo Kenyatta1893–1978 Joseph Chamberlain1836–1914 Joseph Goebbels1897–1945 Joseph McCarthy1908–1957 Joseph Stalin1878–1953 Louisa Pesel1870–1947 Lucky Luciano1897–1962 Luisa Casati1881–1957 M. M. Kaye1908–2004 Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948 Manfred von Richthofen1892–1918 Margaret Thatcher1925–2013 Maud Allan1873–1956 Menelik II1844–1913 Muhammad Ahmad1844–1885 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk1881–1938 Napoleon III1808–1873 Neville Chamberlain1869–1940 Noel Pemberton Billing1881–1948 Otto Hahn1879–1968 Otto von Bismarck1815–1898 Paul Kruger1825–1904 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck1870–1964 Robert Graves1895–1985 Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967 Victoria1819–1901 Vilhjalmur Stefansson1879–1962 Vladimir Lenin1870–1924 Wallis Simpson1896–1986 Wilfred Owen1893–1918 Wilhelm II1859–1941 William Halse Rivers Rivers1864–1922 William Randolph Hearst1863–1951 Winston Churchill1874–1965 Woodrow Wilson1856–1924

Series

Series about World War I & Interwar Era (6 series)

Assegai Sequence in Order

by Wilbur Smith 6 books 4.4

The Assegai Sequence follows Leon Courtney and his daughter Saffron from British East Africa before the First World War through the rise of Nazism, the Second World War and the early post-war struggle over colonial Kenya. The books combine family conflict, espionage and military history across Africa and…

The Burning Shore Sequence in Order

by Wilbur Smith 5 books 4.5

The Burning Shore Sequence follows Centaine de Thiry and later Courtney generations from the Western Front and the aftermath of the First World War through the Great Depression, the rise of apartheid and the Cold War conflicts of southern Africa. Rage is restored as book 3 between Power…

The Century Trilogy in Order

by Ken Follett 3 books 4.3

The Century Trilogy follows five interconnected families from Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States from the years before the First World War to the collapse of Communist rule in Europe. Across three generations, miners, aristocrats, diplomats, political organisers, soldiers and journalists experience public events through marriages, rivalries…

Tom Wilde in Order

by Rory Clements 8 books 4.3

The Tom Wilde series follows an American-born Cambridge history professor drawn into British and Allied intelligence work from the crises of 1936 through the Second World War and the early Cold War. The novels combine espionage with political extremism, scientific research, royal scandal, propaganda and contested wartime memory.…

Books

30 Best Novels About World War I and the Interwar Era

Bestselling authors first, then star rating.

Non Fiction

21 Non-Fiction Books About World War I and the Interwar Era

Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.