A Very Long Engagement
"War Horse" (1982) by Michael Morpurgo is set in World War I and won the Whitbread Book Award for 1982. It has been adapted into a play and film. U.S. writer Mark Helprin's "A Soldier of the Great War" and French novelist Sebastien Japrisot's "A Very Long Engagement" both appeared in 1991. The novel "Birdsong" (1993) by Sebastian Faulks received much praise.