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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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
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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
War and Peace
The Women

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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