Featured Article: World War II
This week’s featured article is all about the popular setting of World War II in fiction and art.
Works set during this international conflict are typically either canonically set within WWII or historical AUs. A historical AU follows alternative universes, where characters from different settings are placed in the WWII era, much like how other works with sci-fi time travel elements would send a character from a modern setting back in time to WWII.
Most commonly WWII fanworks are focused on soldiers and the battlefield, while a smaller group of fanworks focus on nurses, medics, or those left behind at home.
Some examples of well-known fandoms set in or around WWII are Band of Brothers, The Book Thief, Call of Duty, Oppenheimer, Hellboy, and many more.
Head over to our Fanlore page to check out the expanded list of fandoms and example fanworks set in the era.
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