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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Burn
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Precipice
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The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Things We Leave Unfinished
The Rose Arbor
The Little Liar
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Prophet Song
All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
The Wind Knows My Name
The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)
Burn
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The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
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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  (The Night Trilogy, #1)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
A Farewell to Arms
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
War and Peace
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

George Orwell
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell, 1984

G.K. Chesterton
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G.K. Chesterton

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