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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New Releases Tagged "War"

The Young Will Remember
Palaces of the Crow
The Brunswick
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
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
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
Midnight, at the War
The Violence: My Family's Colombian War
In the Likely Event
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Keeper of Lost Children
Angel Down
The Restoration Garden
The Foursome
The Faith of Beasts (The Captive's War, #2)
The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
The Quiet Librarian
All the Broken Places
Family of Spies
The Director
We Do Not Part
The Wind Knows My Name
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
431 books — 656 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,222 books — 2,629 voters

A Pyrrhic Victory by Ian CrouchThe Daisy Chain by Al CampbellWatership Down by Richard  AdamsTo Sing Like a Mockingbird by Jan NotzonAn Angel in Los Angeles by A.M. Sardar
Best Books You Might Have Missed
629 books — 395 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
World War II Fiction
1,470 books — 2,197 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
496 books — 790 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

Kristin Hannah
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Bill Watterson
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? ...more
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages, 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue

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