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21 more World War One books
(published 1923-1930)
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You might remember Sonny Bono as one-half of the famous musical duo Sonny & Cher, but he was also a member of the U.S. Congress. He championed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, which added 20 years to copyright terms (beneficial for a certain well-known cartoon mouse). This effectively "paused" the entry of additional books into the public domain for two decades. Anything published in 1923 or later was locked up until 2019.
On January 1, 2019, the freeze finally ended. For works published between 1923 and 1977, the U.S. rule is now a flat 95 years from the date of publication (provided the copyright was renewed). Because we are now in 2026, the math is in our favor: anything published in 1930 or earlier is now in the public domain! We now have access to an additional eight years of essential memoirs and novels. This includes giants of literature like "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1929) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929). |
| Pub. Year | PD Year | Title | Author | Pages | Description | Full Text Link |
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| 1923 | 2019 | Through the Wheat | Thomas Boyd | 266 | A realistic account of the U.S. Marines in France; praised for its lack of sentimentality. | Archive.org |
| 1923 | 2019 | Antic Hay | Aldous Huxley | 328 | A satirical novel depicting the aimless lives of the "Lost Generation" in post-war London. | Archive.org |
| 1923 | 2019 | The Good Soldier Schweik (Švejk) | Jaroslav Hašek | 752 | The definitive dark comedy of the war, following a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. | Archive.org |
| 1924 | 2020 | The Enormous Room | E.E. Cummings | 271 | An American poet's account of his time in a French detention camp. | Archive.org |
| 1924 | 2020 | Some Do Not... | Ford Madox Ford (1 of 4) |
356 | Part one of four books, examining the psychological upheaval caused by the war. Ford's work is considered by many historians to be the most "truthful" account of how the war felt to the British officer class, because it mixes the external horror of the bombs with the internal horror of a collapsing marriage and social status. | Archive.org |
| 1925 | 2021 | No More Parades | Ford Madox Ford (2 of 4) |
315 | The second part of the series, focusing heavily on the chaos and bureaucracy of the Western Front. | Archive.org |
| 1926 | 2022 | A Man Could Stand Up — | Ford Madox Ford (3 of 4) |
347 | The third part of the series, Captures the psychological experience of the trenches and the sudden transition to peace on Armistice Day. | Archive.org |
| 1928 | 2024 | The Last Post | Ford Madox Ford (4 of 4) |
285 | The conclusion of the series, examining the broken lives of survivors in the post-war world. | Archive.org |
| 1925 | 2021 | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | T.E. Lawrence | 672 | The monumental account of the Arab Revolt and Lawrence's guerrilla campaigns. | Archive.org |
| 1926 | 2022 | The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway (1 of 2) |
251 | A novel about veterans dealing with physical and emotional trauma after the war. | Archive.org |
| 1929 | 2025 | A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway (2 of 2) |
332 | A love story set against the backdrop of the retreat on the Italian Front. | Archive.org |
| 1926 | 2022 | Soldier's Pay | William Faulkner | 319 | A wounded aviator returns to his town, highlighting the disconnect with civilians. | Archive.org |
| 1926 | 2022 | Rough Justice | C.E. Montague | 383 | A British classic following the "New Army" and disillusionment with leadership. | Archive.org |
| 1928 | 2024 | Undertones of War | Edmund Blunden | 314 | A poetic memoir of infantry life; a literate account of the Somme. | Archive.org |
| 1930 | 2026 | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Siegfried Sassoon | 334 | Part 2: A vivid account of Sherston's (Sassoon's) time at the Somme and his growing anti-war stance. | Archive.org |
| 1928 | 2024 | The Case of Sergeant Grischa | Arnold Zweig | 449 | A German novel highlighting war's injustice from an Eastern Front perspective. | Archive.org |
| 1929 | 2025 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 294 | The quintessential anti-war novel. (1929 English Translation). | Archive.org |
| 1929 | 2025 | Good-bye to All That | Robert Graves | 448 | A frank autobiography about Graves' time in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. | Archive.org |
| 1929 | 2025 | The Storm of Steel | Ernst Jünger | 320 | The 1929 English version of Jünger's diary; a stoic view of combat. "From the diary of a German storm-troop officer on the western front." |
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| 1930 | 2026 | The Forbidden Zone | Mary Borden | 200 | Sketches and poems from a woman running a front-line surgical unit. | Archive.org |
| 1930 | 2026 | The Real War,e1914-1918td> | B.H. Liddell Hart | 508 | A comprehensive military history focusing on the strategy of the conflict. | Archive.org |
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