History Literature / WarWithTheNewts

* TheManBehindTheMonsters: The elusive "Chief Salamander", who leads the war on humanity and makes threatening world-scale radio broadcasts. He is secretly a human, a World War veteran named Andreas Schultze [[note]]Whose initials ''A. Sch.'' just ''happen'' to be the same as in ''Adolf Schickelgruber'', Schickelgruber being the original surname of Adolf Hitler's father Alois, a fact widely known at the time of the novel's publication [[/note]].

* ShoutOut: Captain J Van Toch/ Jan Vantoch is clearly inspired by Jan "Eskimo" Welzel, who was something of a celebrity in inter-war Czechoslovakia. A globe-trotting adventurer who had spent long time in various sub-Arctic locations mostly in Canada and Siberia as a trapper, prospector and self-proclaimed honorary chieftan of several indigenous tribes, Welzel was discovered by renowned Czech journalists Bedřich Golombek and Edvard Valenta (Čapek's colleagues in the daily ''Lidové Noviny''), to whom he relayed his admittedly slightly tall tales in the same Moravian dialect Vantoch uses, richly interspersed with German and English words. The inspiration is lampshaded by Golombek and Valenta's being Van Toch's discoverers in the book, as they were Welzel's in reality. In fact the journalists even muse that Van Toch may become "a second Eskimo Welzel".

* TheManBehindTheMonsters: The elusive "Chief Salamander", who leads the war on humanity and makes threatening world-scale radio broadcasts. He is secretly a human, a World War veteran named Andreas Schultze [[note]]Whose initials ''A. Sch.'' just ''happen'' to be the same as in ''Adolf Schickelgruber'', Schickelgruber being the original sruname of Adolf Hitler's father Alois, a fact widely known at the time of the publication [[/note]].

* SameStoryDifferentNames: The general plot of ''War with the Newts'' is very similar to that of ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'', which Čapek had published 15 years earlier. However, the book's message is quite different: whereas in ''R. U. R.", Čapek warns against humanity's over-enthusiasm with technical progress and exposes its de-humanising potential, ''The War with the Newts'' is an intentionally transparent alegory of the rising totalitarianism and people's willingness to fall blindly in line behind a "strong leader". Ironically, compared to the older play, most of the novel is, at least on the surface, written in a much more light-hearted, almost burlesque style, despite its arguably even darker topic.

* SameStoryDifferentNames: The general plot of ''War with the Newts'' is very similar to that of ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'', which Čapek had published 15 years earlier.

* ShoutOut: Captain J Van Toch/ Jan Vantoch is clearly inspired by Jan "Eskimo" Welzel, who was something of a celebrity in inter-war Czechoslovakia. A globe-trotting adventurer who had spent long time in various sub-Arctic locations mostly in Canada and Siberia as a trapper, prospector and self-proclaimed honorary chieftan of several indigenous tribes, Welzel was discovered by renowned Czech journalists Bedřich Golombek and Edvard Valenta (Čapek's colleagues in the daily ''Lidové Noviny''), to whom he relayed his admittedly slightly tall tales in the same Moravian dialect Vantoch uses, richly interspersed with German and English words. The inspiration is lampshaded by Golombek and Valenta's being Vantoch discoverers in the book, as they were Welzel's in reality. In fact the journalists even muse that Van Toch may become "a second Eskimo Welzel".