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
Lone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseGeneration Kill by Evan WrightThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Modern Day Military Accounts
441 books — 592 voters

War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
253 books — 461 voters
Watership Down by Richard  AdamsAtonement by Ian McEwanBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFear of Flying by Erica JongNever Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Books You Might Have Missed
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The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysOperation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper
YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
495 books — 790 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Huế  1968 by Mark BowdenThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
War has no winners
1,142 books — 537 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

Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

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