John Arbuthnot Spanish Succession. The war had profited John and Sarah Churchill, and the Tory ministry sought to end it by withdrawing from all England's alliances and negotiating directly with France. Swift wrote "The Conduct of the Allies," and Arbuthnot wrote a series of five pamphlets featuring John Bull. The first of these, "Law Is a Bottomless Pit" (1712), introduced a simple allegory to explain the war. John Bull (England) is suing Louis Baboon (i.e. Louis Bourbon, or Louis XIV of France) over the estate of the dead Lord Strutt (Charles II of Spain). Bull's lawyer is the one who really enjoys
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