The war also figures prominently in many thousands of novels and other works of literature, including many published in the 1990s and 2000s.
• High Flight (1941) by John Gillespie Magee Jr. (US pilot flying with a Canadian Spitfire squadron during the Battle of Britain).
• Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years (1997)
• Watch on the Rhine (1940)
• Winged Victory (1943)
• Mister Roberts (1948)
• South Pacific (1953)
• This Above All (1941), by Eric Knight
• The Snow Goose (1941), by Paul Gallico
• Readiness at Dawn (1941), by Ronald Adams (writing as 'Blake')
• Attack Alarm (1941), by Hammond Innes
• The Harvey Girls (1942), by Samuel Hopkins Adams
• Signed with Their Honour (1942), by James Aldridge
• Immortal Sergeant (1942), by John Brophy
• Sword of Bone (1942), by Anthony Rhodes
• The Ship (1943), by C S Forester
• Plenty Under the Counter (1943), by Kathleen Hewitt
• Pathfinders (1943), by Cecil Lewis
• The Small Back Room (1943), by Nigel Balchin
• The Diary of a Young Girl (1944), by Anne Frank
• A Bell for Adano (1944), by John Hersey
• A Walk in the Sun (1944), by Harry Brown
• Days and Nights (1944), by Konstantin Simonov
• Fair Stood the Wind for France (1944), by H E Bates
• I've Got Mine (1945) (later published as Walk into Hell), by Richard G Hubler
• Come to Dust (1945), by Robin Maugham
• Eight Hours from England (1945), by Anthony Quayle
• To All the Living (1945), by Monica Felton
• Williwaw (1946), by Gore Vidal
• In the Trenches of Stalingrad (1946) (published in English as Frontline Stalingrad), by Viktor Nekrasov
• Tales of the South Pacific (1947), by James A Michener
• The End of My Life (1947), by Vance Bourjaily

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Social historians regard the works of popular culture from the World War II era as documents that mirror and define crucial issues and concerns during that time. Individual combatants and those on the home fronts during World War II experienced the war through newspaper reports, radio broadcasts, films, stage plays, books and popular music—all become noteworthy aspects of understanding the period and its impact on what happened afterward.

World War II has provided material for many films, television programmes and books, beginning during the war. The film aspect had reached its peak by the 1960s, with films such as The Longest Day (which had been adapted from a book), The Great Escape, Patton and Battle of Britain. In the United Kingdom the actor Sir John Mills became particularly associated with war dramas, such as The Colditz Story (1954), Above Us the Waves (1955) and Ice Cold in Alex (1958), and was seen as the personification of Britain at war, conveying heroism and humility.

Movies about World War II continued for the rest of the 20th century and into the 21st century, though less in number and included Schindler's List (1993 film), The boy in the Striped Pajamas (2009 film), The Thin Red Line (1998), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Red Tails (2012) about the African-American Air Fighter pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen. Movies and television programs about the war continued to be made into the 21st century, including the television mini-series Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Dunkirk. The majority of World War II films are portrayed from the Allied perspective. Some exceptions include Das Boot (1981), Downfall (2004), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Stalingrad (1993), Joy Division (2006), and Cross of Iron (1977). World War II used to provide most of the material for the History Channel (United States). Mel Brooks used the theme in the fictitious musical "Springtime for Hitler" which appears in his film The Producers (1968), later the basis for the 2001 musical, .

Many television comedy sitcoms have used the war as a setting, e.g. Hogan's Heroes from America, which follows the actions of a group of Allied POWs involved in covert activities. Three British sitcoms from David Croft are Dad's Army which satirizes the British Home Guard, an anti-invasion force of men who are mostly too old to join the forces; It Ain't Half Hot Mum about a Forces Concert Party entertaining troops in India and Burma, and 'Allo 'Allo! which finds humour in the French Resistance. In "The Germans" episode of Fawlty Towers, Basil Fawlty (John Cleese) repeatedly insists his staff be polite to their German guests ("don't mention the War!") which he signally fails to demonstrate himself. In 2009, an anime adaptation of the webcomic Hetalia: Axis Powers was released and parodies the characters as countries and their transactions in the war through social adult issues.

Many non-war-related TV shows in the United States, such as The Simpsons, South Park, The Looney Tunes Show and Seinfeld frequently make references to World War II-related persons and subjects, such as Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, battles during the war, The Holocaust and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During the war several Donald Duck shorts were also propaganda films.
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Traditional board wargaming has replicated World War II from the tactical to the grand strategic levels. Axis & Allies and other such games continue to be popular. Avalon Hill and other wargame companies produced such complex games as Squad Leader and PanzerBlitz in the 1970s. Other popular World War II games still in production include Australian Design Group's World in Flames and Decision Games reproductions of SPI World War II games.

World War II has also been replicated through miniatures tabletop wargaming. Games like Flames of War, Command Decision, Spearhead, BlitzkriegCommander and others have become popular among historical miniature wargamers. A novelty is the upcoming of free internet based wargames in high quality such as Final Round.

World War II has long been a popular setting for video games. In fact, the first historically-based war video game was Computer Bismarck (1980), a turn-based game which focused on the last battle of the battleship Bismarck. The war has been one of the most popular settings for video games and the setting of some of the most popular games, though the proportion of war video games in a modern setting increased following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Some of the most prominent World War II game series include Medal of Honor, Battlefield and Call of Duty, though these series eventually branched out beyond that setting. Certain games are set entirely in one battle or operation (such as Attack on Pearl Harbor), certain games are set in one theater (such as Medal of Honor: Rising Sun) and certain games take place in multiple theaters (such as Battlefield 1942). The setting has appeared in diverse genres of video games but is used most often for first-person shooters, real-time tactics games and flight simulators.