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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Honor & Heresy
Ghosts of Sicily: The True Story of the Naval Intelligence Agents Who Courted the Mob to Fight Nazis in America and the Battlefields of Italy
Questions 27 & 28
Midnight, at the War
The Violence: My Family's Colombian War
The Shock of the Light
The Moonlight Runner
The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of America
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
The Girl with the List
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
Red Stones: A Graphic Account of the Salvadoran Civil War
Buckeye
In the Likely Event
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Keeper of Lost Children
Frozen by Stardust (Beasts of the Briar, #5)
The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
The Half-Hearted Queen (The Shattered King #2)
The Restoration Garden
The Quiet Librarian
Family of Spies
All the Broken Places
Skylark
The Director
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,822 books — 1,706 voters
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Best Christian Historical Fiction
1,667 books — 1,810 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,118 books — 1,497 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
705 books — 588 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
1,146 books — 540 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

Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. ...more
Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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