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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Burn Down Master's House
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Tom Paine's War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time
The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age
Buckeye
In the Likely Event
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
The Polymorph
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
The Restoration Garden
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Burn Down Master's House
Last Twilight in Paris
Skylark
The Women of Arlington Hall
All the Broken Places
Family of Spies
The Quiet Librarian
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
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Best Literature About the Vietnam War
331 books — 638 voters
War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
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War has no winners
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Best American Civil War Books
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Best Gay Soldiers
530 books — 693 voters


There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
Albert Dietrich, Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich

George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell, 1984

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