[Gregvan]

Hi Retread,

Yes, how could I have forgotten James Norman Hall (a fellow Iowan) and Nordhoff? I guess I've spent so much study on Hall the pilot I nearly forgot he was a famous writer!

Hemingway, Nordhoff and Hall weren't the only writers to come out of WWI, of course. They were legion; the Americans in particular forming that whole "lost generation" thing. John Dos Passos and E.E. Cummings both served in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. F. Scott Fitzgerald enlisted but never got overseas. William Faulkner reportedly went through Canada to join the RFC/RAF, but I don't think he got very far and never went overseas (I seem to recall he may have exaggerated his service??).

Of course, on the German side there were such writers as Erich Maria Remarque and Ernst Jünger, among others.