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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Tom Paine's War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time
The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare
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The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
The Polymorph
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Family of Spies
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All the Broken Places
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
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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

Sun Tzu
Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ...more
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Kristin Hannah
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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