Did you know that #antiwar novel Catch-22 is based (& would not have existed) on another #book? 40 years before #Catch22, another anti-war book was published: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. In it, #Czech everyman Švejk (pronounced "sch-waik") hears about Franz Ferdinand's assassination & immediately understands that things are going to get real, and soon. The reality of regular people is that the #systemic powers will make them do what they want & Švejk decides to get himself out of that hamster wheel (of being enlisted, going to the front, dealing with authority) in any way he can! Much hilarity & cunning ensues & a work that Bertold Brecht felt to be THE next candidate for world #literature unfolds. If you want a book about the Eastern Front (for a change) & something about #WWI, this one's it. It was not finished by the author though (he died of heart failure after book 3).