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 Brunswick
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
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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
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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

Howard Zinn
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn

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

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