The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker, includes characters based on real people. Check out these works written by and about those historical figures.
Heidi Stettedahl, 2018
Meera Atkinson, 2017
Susan Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau, 2011
Philip Tew and Rod Mengham, 2006
James Acheson and Sarah C. E. Ross, 2005
Martin Löschnigg and Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, 2014
Stuart Sillars, 2007
John H Johnston, 2015
Janis P. Stout, 2005
Ann-Marie Einhaus and Katherine Isobel Baxter, 2017