Many types of fiction and have involved events in the World War II time period. This list is a chronological collection of significant events from such fiction. It includes events that were set in World War II but have never occurred.

Novels

• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1944)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle (1954)
• The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1961)
• The Charioteer by Mary Renault (1954)
• The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (1951)
• The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins (1975)
• Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (1978)
• From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1951)
• The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester (1955)
• Goodbye to Some by Gordon Forbes (1961)
• H.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair Maclean (1955)
• King Rat by James Clavell (1962)
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (1948)
• No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat (1979)
• Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer (1968)
• Pastoral by Nevil Shute (1944)
• The Rhinemann Exchange by Robert Ludlum
• Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach, Jr. (1955)
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1969)
• The Thin Red Line by James Jones (1962)
• A Walk in the Sun by Harry Brown
• War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
• The War Lover by John Hersey
• War of the Rats by David L. Robbins
• Whistle by James Jones
• The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (1971)

Authors who specialise in World War II

• Sven Hassel

Short stories

• For Esme With Love and Squalor by J.D. Salinger

Movies

1940s

• The 49th Parallel
• Casablanca

1960s

• The Great Escape

1990s

• Saving Private Ryan
• Schindler's List
• The Thin Red Line
• La vita e' bella

Games

• Call of Duty
• Medal of Honor series
• Wolfenstein video game series by Id Software

Comic books

• Marvel superheroes fight Nazi Germany, including Captain America, Sgt Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos, etc.

See Also:

• Fiction based on World War I
• Fiction based on the Vietnam War
• Alternative history (fiction)