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"

Keeper of Lost Children
The Riveter
Mists over the Channel Islands
The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War
The Star Society
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Tom Paine's War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time
The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of Modern Warfare
Buckeye
In the Likely Event
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
The Polymorph
Keeper of Lost Children
The Restoration Garden
Skylark
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
When the World Fell Silent
Family of Spies
A Crown of Ruin (Blood and Ash #6.5)
All the Broken Places
The Quiet Librarian
Thorns & Fire (The Ashes of Thezmarr, #2)
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Best Literature About the Vietnam War
332 books — 639 voters
War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
254 books — 462 voters

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Best Gay Soldiers
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Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
408 books — 630 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

Mark Twain
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark Twain

Lewis Carroll
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Lewis Carroll

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