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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The Star Society
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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 – The Anti-Nuclear President, the Bomb Decision, and Cold War History
Buckeye
In the Likely Event
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
The Polymorph
Burn Down Master's House
The Restoration Garden
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Skylark
Family of Spies
All the Broken Places
Last Twilight in Paris
The Quiet Librarian
The Women of Arlington Hall
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
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Best American History Books
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Howard Zinn
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn

Madeline Miller
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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