Thanks Cabbie1 for mentioning Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1923 to 1999) who was a great satirical novelist with a unique style and brand of humour. Other very good books by Joseph Heller that I have read, enjoyed & recommend include God Knows, Good As Gold, Something Happened, Picture This, Closing Time and No Laughing Matter. Catch 22 is correctly (IMHO) regarded as the best WW2 satire but far less well known is the great WW1 satire The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek (a book that I highly recommend). Another great satire that I highly recommend is The Yawning Heights by Alexander Zinoviev (a Russian philosopher and writer who was expelled from the Soviet Union for his anti-communist writings, so he was luckier than others who were killed or imprisoned in the gulags for their principled opposition to the tyranical soviet dictatorships of Stalin and his successors).
