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 Girls of the Glimmer Factory
The Outcast Mage (The Shattered Lands, #1)
Ace, Marvel, Spy
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
Among Serpents (Above the Black, #2)
The Boy I Love
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman's March and the Story of America's Largest Emancipation
Song of a Blackbird
Sisters in Science
The Rest Is Memory
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
The Things We Leave Unfinished
In the Likely Event
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
Hold Strong
The Little Liar
We Do Not Part
All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Prophet Song
The Goddess of Warsaw
The Booklover's Library
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
What the Light Touches
The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Drowning Faith (The Poppy War, #2.5)
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
437 books — 622 voters
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
523 books — 828 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Longest Day by Cornelius RyanAn Army at Dawn by Rick AtkinsonWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. Sledge
Best World War II History (nonfiction)
666 books — 494 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahTatiana and Alexander by Paullina Simons
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
411 books — 647 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanBirdsong by Sebastian FaulksA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayGoodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Great War
671 books — 730 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Book Thief
Slaughterhouse-Five
All the Light We Cannot See
Catch-22
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank
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
War and Peace
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

Plato
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato

George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell, 1984

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