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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 545,104 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,997,772 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,085,165 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,536,898 ratings — published 1969
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 369,839 ratings — published 1929
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.15 — 358,240 ratings — published 1990
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 908,468 ratings — published 1961
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,836,375 ratings — published 2007
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 581,620 ratings — published 2001
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,356,591 ratings — published 1947
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.30 — 112,360 ratings — published 1894
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 329,561 ratings — published 1940
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,102 ratings — published 1991
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,360 ratings — published 1939
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,012,784 ratings — published 2006
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 86,005 ratings — published 1993
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 380,844 ratings — published 1868
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 143,139 ratings — published 1992
The Painted Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,165 ratings — published 1965
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 76,562 ratings — published
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,228,369 ratings — published 2018
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,431,178 ratings — published 2015
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 168,125 ratings — published 1982
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 836,185 ratings — published 2008
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 388,379 ratings — published 1986
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,411,595 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,632,933 ratings — published 2003
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 542,839 ratings — published -750
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,728 ratings — published 1995
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,798 ratings — published 1977
In Memoriam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.48 — 94,567 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 603,549 ratings — published -500
The Road Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,998 ratings — published 1931
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,122 ratings — published 2015
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,959 ratings — published 1920
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,884 ratings — published 1962
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 95,847 ratings — published 1979
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 194,506 ratings — published 2006
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 186,291 ratings — published 1974
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,824 ratings — published 1918
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,204 ratings — published 1993
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 61,535 ratings — published 1982
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,475 ratings — published 1932
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.43 — 414,674 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 950,919 ratings — published 1946
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 21,070 ratings — published 2010
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 145,917 ratings — published 2015
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.44 — 414,019 ratings — published 2017
Hana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.66 — 13,559 ratings — published 2017
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,718 ratings — published 1946
“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
“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
