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A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war. See history for specific wars.

In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
The Lives of Tao
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and the Pursuit of America's Enemies to the Ends of the Earth
Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3)
Racing for the Sun
July 1914: Countdown to War
Time to Kill: A Sniper Novel (Kyle Swanson Sniper, #6)
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Prisoner B-3087
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women
Mary Walker Wears the Pants: The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero
The Last Train: A Holocaust Story

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  • The Wailing by M.R. Graham
    The Wailing
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    The End of Sparta: A Novel
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    Now in paperback: The fiction debut from celebrated historian Victor Davis Hanson - an epic novel of war and freedom in ancient Greece, in the traditi…more View Details »
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    Dead Stars Part 1 (Emaneska #3)
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    The sky is falling...

    This summer will see the end of an epic series, a brutal finale to the whirlwind that has been the Emaneska Series.

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  • The Elite (The Selection, #2)
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    Promise Me Darkness
    The Yellow Birds
    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
    The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
    Quintana of Charyn (Lumatere Chronicles, #3)
    The Runaway King (The Ascendance Trilogy, #2)
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    The Kingmaker's Daughter (The Cousins' War #4)
    Suicide Note
    Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
    Article 5 (Article 5, #1)
    Escape From Davao by John D. LukacsUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandBerlin Diary by William L. ShirerA Bridge Too Far by Cornelius RyanWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge
    Best World War II history
    75 books — 73 voters
    The Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Ninth Orphan by James MorcanJurassic Park by Michael CrichtonSphere by Michael CrichtonErasure by A.T.H. Webber
    Best Technothrillers Ever
    292 books — 168 voters

    All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayWar Horse by Michael MorpurgoBirds Without Wings by Louis de BernièresThe Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker
    WWI Historical Fiction
    115 books — 41 voters
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
    Well Written Holocaust Books
    386 books — 1,416 voters

    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakIn Pursuit of Platinum by Vic RobbieThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferNight by Elie Wiesel
    Best WWII Fiction and Biography
    135 books — 158 voters

    Catch-22
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    The Things They Carried
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Night  (The Night Trilogy, #1)
    Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
    A Farewell to Arms
    Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    The Art of War
    Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
    Atonement
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    For Whom the Bell Tolls

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    War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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