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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.

New Releases Tagged "War"

The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse

Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall-and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill

The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West

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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

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The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2)

Only Time Will Tell (The Clifton Chronicles, #1)

D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944

The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy, #2)

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Lists

World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction

527 books — 513 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson

Best Civil War Books

649 books — 747 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Best War Novels

772 books — 756 voters

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class

904 books — 869 voters

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

YA Holocaust & WWII Novels

228 books — 528 voters

Best Non-fiction War Books

969 books — 1,388 voters

Popular War Books

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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Author Interviews

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

The author of The Devil in the White City takes on history's worst villains with In the Garden of Beasts, his new nonfiction opus about the Nazi ascendance in 1933 Berlin.

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Quotes Tagged “War”

“ Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ”
― Herbert Hoover

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“ A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

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