Books that Became the Basis for movies: part II: 20th Century

by order of publication:

==World War I==
1914-1918

1 Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen (novel; 1930 film: Westfront 1918)
2 The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West (1918 novel; 1982 film)
3 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929 novel; 1930, 1979 films)
4 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (1929 novel; 1932, 1957 films)
5 Brown on Resolution by C.S. Forester (1929 novel; 1935 film)
6 The Road Back by Erich Maria Remarque (1931 novel; 1937 film)
7 The African Queen by C.S. Forester (1935 novel; 1952 film)
8 Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb (1935 novel; 1957 film)
9 Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque (1937 novel; 1938 film)
10 Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (1939 novel; 1971 film)
11 The Blue Max by Jack D. Hunter (1964 novel; 1966 film)

==Russian Revolution==
1917

1 Revolt by Mary C. McCall Jr. (? Novel; 1932 film)
2 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1957 novel; 1965 film)

==Spanish Civil War==
1936-1939

1 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (1940 novel; 1943 film; 1965 film)

==World War II==
1939-1945

1 Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther (1939; 1942 film; 1960 TV film)
2 Edge of Darkness by William Woods (1942 novel; 1943 film)
3 Tęcza by Wanda Wasilewska (1944 novel; 1944 film - Raduga)
4 A Walk in the Sun by Harry Brown (1944 novel; 1945 film)
5 Twelve O'Clock High by Sy Bartlett & Beirne Lay Jr. (1948 novel; 1949 film; 1964-1967 tv series)
6 The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill (1950 novel; 1963 film)
7 The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (1951 novel; 1953 film)
8 From Here to Eternity by James Jones (1951 novel; 1953 film)
9 The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill (1951 novel; 1954 film)
10 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (1951 novel; 1954 film)
11 The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle (1952 novel; 1957 film)
12 The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu (1954 novel; 1956 film)
13 Ill Met by Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss (1950s novel; 1957 film)
14 The story of Dunkirk by Lt. Col. Ewan Butler & Major J.S. Bradford MBE MC (1955) & The Big Pickup by Elleston Trevor (1955) 1958 film -

Dunkirk
15 Never So Few by Tom T. Chamales (1957 novel; 1959 film)
16 The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean (1957 novel; 1961 film)
17 633 Squadron by Frederick E. Smith (1958 novel; 1964 film)
18 The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C.S. Forester (1959 novel; 1960 film: Sink the Bismarck!)
19 The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan (1959 novel; 1962 film)
20 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961 novel; 1970 film)
21 The Narrow Margin by Derek Wood and Derek Dempster (1961 novel; 1969 film: Battle of Britain)
22 The Thin Red Line by James Jones (1962 novel; 1964, 1998 film)
23 Von Ryan's Express by David Westheimer (1964 novel; 1965 film)
24 The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson (1965 novel; 1967 film)
25 Force 10 From Navarone by Alistair MacLean (1967 novel; 1978 film)
26 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (1969 novel; 1972 film)
27 A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan (1974 novel; 1977 film)
28 Boarding Party by James Leasor (1980 novel; 1980 film: The Sea Wolves)
29 Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (1982 novel; 1993 film: Schindler's List)
30 Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (1984 novel; 1987 film)
31 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992 novel; 1996 film)
32 Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by William Breuer (1994; 2005 film: The Great Raid)
33 Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières (1994 novel; 2001 film)
34 War of the Rats by David L. Robbins (1999) & Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig (2001) - Enemy at the Gates 2001

film
35 Hart's War by John Katzenbach (1999 novel; 2002 film)
36 Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley (2000 novel; 2006 film)

==Korean War==
1950-1953 (cease fire, war not yet officially concluded)

1 The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener (1953 novel; 1955 film)
2 M*A*S*H by H. Richard Hornberger (1953 novel; 1970 film and 1972-1983 tv series)
3 The Hunters by James Salter (1956 novel; 1958 film)

==Vietnam War==
1957-1975

1 We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young by Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway (1953 novel; 2002 film)
2 The Quiet American by Graham Greene (1955 novel; 2002 film)
3 Casualties of War by Daniel Lang (1969 novel; 1989 film)
4 Air America by Christopher Robbins (1979 novel; 1990 film)
5 The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford (1980 novel; 1987 film: Full Metal Jacket)
6 Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts (1986 novel; 1991 film)

==Cold War==
1947-1989

1 The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (1984 novel; 1990 film)

==Gulf War==
1991

1 Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford (2003 novel; 2005 film)

==Bosnian War==
1992-1995

1 Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson (1993 novel; 1997 film)

==Battle of Mogadishu==
1993

1 Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden (1999 novel; 2001 film)

There are more than that on the Spanish Civil War - I'll have to dig them up when I get back from vacation!

I'd be interested to know of books/movies related to any of the various wars or even skirmishes (nonfiction or even truth-inspired fiction) related to the

==Arab-Israeli Conflict==

1 Exodus by Leon Uris
2 90 Minutes At Entebbe by William Stevenson

For World War II, I'd like to add
Remains of the Day,
The Diary of Anne Frank,
Escape from Sobibor,
Europa, Europa,
Seven Beauties,
the Garden of the finzi-Continis,
Varian's War, Tea with Mussolini,
The Blood of others,
On the Town,
The Human Comedy,
Swing shift
From Here to Eternity
The Bridge on the River Kwai
and for the Israel and WWII-
Hanna Senesh

For WWI:

A very long engagement by Sebastien Japrisot