War

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.
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New Releases Tagged "War"

The Young Will Remember
Palaces of the Crow
The Brunswick
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
Questions 27 & 28
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
Midnight, at the War
The Violence: My Family's Colombian War
In the Likely Event
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Keeper of Lost Children
The Foursome
The Restoration Garden
The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
The Venice Sketchbook
The Quiet Librarian
All the Broken Places
Family of Spies
We Do Not Part
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash, #6.5)
The Director
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,230 books — 2,721 voters

A Pyrrhic Victory by Ian CrouchThe Daisy Chain by Al CampbellWatership Down by Richard  AdamsTo Sing Like a Mockingbird by Jan NotzonAn Angel in Los Angeles by A.M. Sardar
Best Books You Might Have Missed
630 books — 386 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,718 books — 1,465 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangHuế  1968 by Mark BowdenWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
War has no winners
1,150 books — 543 voters
Redeeming Love by Francine RiversA Voice in the Wind by Francine RiversAn Echo in the Darkness by Francine RiversAs Sure as the Dawn by Francine RiversThe Silent Governess by Julie Klassen
Best Christian Historical Fiction
1,693 books — 1,848 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Book Thief
Slaughterhouse-Five
All the Light We Cannot See
Catch-22
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Things They Carried
The Art of War
The Nightingale
Night
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
A Farewell to Arms
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Women
War and Peace

Malcolm X
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
Malcom X

Mark Twain
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain

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