John Bull John Bull John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom in general and England in particular, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged, country dwelling, jolly, matter-of-fact man. John Bull originated as a satirical character created by Dr John Arbuthnot, a friend of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Bull first appeared in 1712 in Arbuthnot's pamphlet "Law is a Bottomless Pit". The same year Arbuthnot published a four-part political narrative "The History of John Bull". In this satirical treatment of the War of the Spanish Succession John Bull brings
World War I in literature Writer William March, who fought with the U.S. Marines in France during World War I, wrote a novel "Company K" in 1933, loosely based on his own experiences. Another American writer Dalton Trumbo wrote a bitterly anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun" in 1938 which won a National Book Award the following year and was made into a film in 1971. New Zealander John A Lee, who fought as an infantryman in World War I and who lost an arm, produced a novel "Citizen into Soldier" (1937) inspired by his own experiences. Novels concerning World War I continued to appear