Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of key American writers who experienced combat in World War II in the European or Pacific Theater, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. This volume explores the works of sixteen key authors, including J.D. Salinger, John Ciardi, and James Jones, exploring these men’s war experiences and their reflection in their writing. This includes what lessons they learned from those experiences, and, most important, what they can teach the readers about war and peace, good and evil, hatred and pity, honor and dishonor, fate and chance—and about the sustaining power of comradeship. This critical overview will be useful to readers and academics exploring the Great War in twentieth-century literature and the impact on western writing.