Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929) chronicles a doomed love affair between an American lieutenant and a British nurse during World War I.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) is considered, along with The Sun Also Rises, to be one of the seminal works of the Lost Generation.

Antony Beevor's The Spanish Civil War, published in 2001, presents a comprehensive account of the conflict that served as a bloody precursor to World War II.

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926) focuses on the aftermath of World War I, especially on how the war affected the lives of displaced Americans.