The Royal Pardon: The Soldier Who Became an Actor (1966) is a play authored by Arden and his spouse. It focuses on a soldier who abandons the military.

Voices from the Ranks: A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign by a Serjeant of the Royal Fusiliers is a memoir penned by Timothy Gowling and edited by Kenneth Fenwick. Released in 1954, the book reflects on the realities of army life during the Crimean War.

Arden’s 1960 play titled Happy Haven features characters who challenge and oppose authority.

Written by Bertolt Brecht in 1941, Mother Courage and Her Children is an antiwar epic that demonstrates the catastrophic impacts of violence and war.