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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New Releases Tagged "War"

Son of Nobody
The Shock of the Light
The Moonlight Runner
The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of America
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
The Girl with the List
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History
I Hope You Find What You're Looking For
Nonesuch
The Riveter
Each and Every Spark
The Chosen and The Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States
The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War
Buckeye
In the Likely Event
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Keeper of Lost Children
The Polymorph
The Shattered King (The Shattered King, #1)
The Half-Hearted Queen (The Shattered King #2)
Dawn of the North (The Ashen, #3)
The Restoration Garden
Family of Spies
The Water Women: A Novel
All the Broken Places
The Director
Skylark
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Best Books Involving Forbidden Love
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The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
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702 books — 585 voters

The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Huế  1968 by Mark BowdenThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
War has no winners
1,146 books — 540 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,701 books — 1,450 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
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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

J.K. Rowling
There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. "Is this the moment?" Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. "OI! There's a war going on here!" ...more
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Adolf Hitler
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Adolf Hitler

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