303. Fiction's Finest Hour - Unpacking the Best WWII Literature

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week on Battleground, Saul and Patrick are stepping away from the tactics and into the narrative, discussing their picks for the best fiction books born out of the Second World War. They delve into the literary legacy of WWII, debating and dissecting the novels that most effectively capture the human experience of the conflict. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.4	Today Saul and I are stepping away from the bobbers and bullets to talk about books. Many wars
1:12.5	produced literature. It was inevitable that the greatest war ever fought would generate a vast
1:18.0	amount of writing on the subject, good, bad and indifferent. We're going to discuss some of our
1:24.1	favourite novels that emerged from the conflict, concentrating on those produced
1:28.8	in the anglosphere and asking us what they tell us about the nature of the Second World War.
1:36.0	But the first thing I'd say, Saul, is that the literature of the Second World War was markedly
1:41.5	different from that of the First World War, wasn't it?
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