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War Literature Books
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,001 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,957,605 ratings — published 2005
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,051,675 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,517,669 ratings — published 1969
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.82 — 364,265 ratings — published 1929
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.15 — 354,049 ratings — published 1990
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 900,852 ratings — published 1961
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,188 ratings — published 2001
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,300,314 ratings — published 1947
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,798,847 ratings — published 2007
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.30 — 111,558 ratings — published 1894
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.99 — 325,315 ratings — published 1940
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 997,463 ratings — published 2006
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,640 ratings — published 1991
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,413 ratings — published 1939
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.11 — 85,221 ratings — published 1993
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,208,358 ratings — published 2018
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 167,205 ratings — published 1982
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,312 ratings — published 1868
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.86 — 141,607 ratings — published 1992
The Painted Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.90 — 28,893 ratings — published 1965
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.09 — 74,696 ratings — published 1938
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.19 — 826,898 ratings — published 2008
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,554 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,583,822 ratings — published 2003
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 529,373 ratings — published -750
The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,586 ratings — published 1995
Dispatches (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,425 ratings — published 1977
In Memoriam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.49 — 87,631 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,533 ratings — published -500
The Road Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,715 ratings — published 1931
Girl at War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,594 ratings — published 2015
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,324,767 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 — 384,035 ratings — published 1986
Storm of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 23,063 ratings — published 1920
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.98 — 128,133 ratings — published 1962
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,334 ratings — published 1979
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,440 ratings — published 2006
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.14 — 184,271 ratings — published 1974
The Return of the Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.69 — 9,598 ratings — published 1918
The Eye in the Door (Regeneration, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,067 ratings — published 1993
Kamienie na szaniec (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 3.76 — 21,461 ratings — published 1943
War Horse (War Horse, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.16 — 60,732 ratings — published 1982
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,509 ratings — published 1932
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.44 — 400,272 ratings — published 2021
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.37 — 925,040 ratings — published 1946
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,589 ratings — published 2010
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,228 ratings — published 2015
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.44 — 405,522 ratings — published 2017
Hana (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as war-literature)
avg rating 4.67 — 13,124 ratings — published 2017
“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
