2006-09-21 10:29:52 · 3 answers · asked by ben b 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Huge impact. James Jones, The Thin Red Line had a tremendous impact on our notions of men in combat. From Here to Eternity still resonates with Americans and perhaps even more in the post 9/11 America.
WWII had a very great impact on German writers such as Gunter Grass, Heinrich Boll and Willi Heinrich. German literature post WWII is very introspective and heavy with a dark melacholy that is consistent with a nation basically starting over at Die Stunde Null.
WWII had a tremendous impact on the American psyche and our literature changed to reflect our hunger for things that were very different from the desires of the pre-WWII American culture.
I'm not really smart enough to really lay it out, but hopefully somebody else can really give this question the answer it deserves.
2006-09-21 15:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not just books, movies, plays. Alot of autobiographies, first person accounts of life in POW, Internment camps, biographies of important persons ; Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin,Hirohito, plus generals, Hitler's people, war crimes trials, Nuremberg. Thousands of words have been written, thousands more will be coming.WW2 impacted every aspect of life.
2006-09-22 15:55:25 · answer #2 · answered by hollyltstarfleet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beat literature
2006-09-21 15:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋