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War Literature Books
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 523,113 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,899,198 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,994,718 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,491,464 ratings — published 1969
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.15 — 347,253 ratings — published 1990
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 356,106 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 890,164 ratings — published 1961
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,218,871 ratings — published 1947
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.95 — 566,265 ratings — published 2001
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,750,856 ratings — published 2007
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.30 — 110,445 ratings — published 1894
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 320,015 ratings — published 1940
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 975,057 ratings — published 2006
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,937 ratings — published 1991
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 49,090 ratings — published 1939
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 84,290 ratings — published 1993
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,178,016 ratings — published 2018
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 166,115 ratings — published 1982
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 139,780 ratings — published 1992
The Painted Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 28,537 ratings — published 1965
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 815,318 ratings — published 2008
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,372,176 ratings — published 1956
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 368,134 ratings — published 1869
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,515,764 ratings — published 2003
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,388 ratings — published 1995
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,937 ratings — published 1977
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 72,216 ratings — published 1938
In Memoriam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.50 — 77,851 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 576,569 ratings — published -500
The Road Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 10,400 ratings — published 1931
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,906 ratings — published 2015
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,164,828 ratings — published 2015
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 377,373 ratings — published 1986
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,912 ratings — published 1962
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 94,695 ratings — published 1979
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 185,148 ratings — published 2006
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 181,348 ratings — published 1974
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,374 ratings — published 1918
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.93 — 513,724 ratings — published -800
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,877 ratings — published 1993
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 59,611 ratings — published 1982
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,252 ratings — published 1932
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.44 — 377,612 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.37 — 889,660 ratings — published 1946
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,979 ratings — published 2010
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 139,513 ratings — published 2015
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 392,035 ratings — published 2017
Hana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.67 — 12,576 ratings — published 2017
Corelli’s Mandolin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.03 — 93,036 ratings — published 1994
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 21,966 ratings — published 1920
“War does not only kill men.
Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”
― Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
Sometimes it quietly takes away their future children.”
― Love in Communism: A Young Woman's Adult Story
“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target against the monotonous landscape, drawing German pilots toward whatever appeared below.
Twice already, the exhausted and terrified prisoners were strafed by Junkers aircraft returning from their missions, deciding to use up their remaining ammunition. At the command of the group leader — a State Security lieutenant — everyone scattered in all directions. Yet despite this, nearly twenty people, including soldiers, were killed by the bullets of the German vultures.
Roughly the same number were executed by the guards themselves. Anyone seriously wounded, anyone unable to keep walking, was shot on the spot.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During the first weeks of the German–Soviet War in 1941, prisoners and soldiers are driven across the open steppe. Caught between German air attacks and Soviet security forces, the weak and wounded are systematically eliminated. The scene exposes the brutal logic of total war on the Eastern Front.”
― Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
Twice already, the exhausted and terrified prisoners were strafed by Junkers aircraft returning from their missions, deciding to use up their remaining ammunition. At the command of the group leader — a State Security lieutenant — everyone scattered in all directions. Yet despite this, nearly twenty people, including soldiers, were killed by the bullets of the German vultures.
Roughly the same number were executed by the guards themselves. Anyone seriously wounded, anyone unable to keep walking, was shot on the spot.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During the first weeks of the German–Soviet War in 1941, prisoners and soldiers are driven across the open steppe. Caught between German air attacks and Soviet security forces, the weak and wounded are systematically eliminated. The scene exposes the brutal logic of total war on the Eastern Front.”
― Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
