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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Biological War: A Scenario
Song for Another Home
The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood
City of Widows
The Spy Keeper of Marseille
On Your Six (Ellison #1)
The Crusader Armies, 1099–1187
Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941
Children of the Wild
The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece
Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
Alexander: God, King, Man
In the Likely Event
Light Wielder (Fire & Metal, #2)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Keeper of Lost Children
A Forsaken Prophecy (The Artisan Trilogy, #2)
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Foursome
All the Broken Places
The Fourth Option
Stolen by Shadows (Beasts of the Briar, #6)
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
We Do Not Part
The Sunflower House
The Director
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
1,671 books — 1,839 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Well-Written Holocaust Books
935 books — 3,021 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahTatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
440 books — 661 voters

The Killer Angels by Michael ShaaraGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Civil War by Shelby FooteCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Best American Civil War Books
1,024 books — 1,050 voters
An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,275 books — 2,114 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

John Steinbeck
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. ...more
John Steinbeck

Bill Watterson
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? ...more
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

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