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
Keeper of Lost Children
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Lázár
A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams
The Foursome
All the Broken Places
The Fourth Option
We Do Not Part
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
The Sunflower House
The Rose Arbor
Still Life
Thorns & Fire (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #2)
1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
550 books — 765 voters
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
498 books — 792 voters

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
459 books — 634 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
1,029 books — 1,056 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

Neil Gaiman
There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous. ...more
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
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