War Novels

The War Lover

by John Hersey

2019

In the immediate sense, this long, eventful and agonizingly suspenseful novel shows what fear, secret hidden fear, can do to even one of those seeming heroes, a war lover. In the longer view, however, this may come to be regarded as the gre…

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The Bronze Horseman

by Paullina Simons

2009

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who…

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The Winds of War

by Herman Wouk

2008

Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all t…

The Sorrow of War

by Bao Ninh

1993

This is the semi-autobiographical account of a soldier's experiences. The hero of the story, Kien, is a captain. After 10 years of war and months as a MIA body-collector, Kien suffers a nervous breakdown in Hanoi as he tries to re-estab…

Four Soldiers

by Hubert Mingarelli

2018

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must always have existed, a classic of writing about the human condition…

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The Secret Battle (Historical Novel)

by A P Herbert

2021

The Secret Battle is a novel about a soldier executed for cowardice. The novel follows the career of a young officer, Harry Penrose. A sensitive, educated young man, Penrose had enlisted in the ranks in 1914, immediately after completing hi…

Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

by Olivia Manning

2014

In The Levant Trilogy Olivia Manning returns to the story of the young English couple Guy and Harriet Pringle, last seen, at the end of The Balkan Trilogy, departing from Athens ahead of the invading Nazi army. Now, in the spring of 1941, t…

Between Mountains

by Maggie Helwig

2004

This is a novel about transgressing moral, personal, ethical and social boundaries with tragic results - as a simultaneous translatpr a the War Crimes tribunal gets too close to a journalist who reports from former Yugoslavia. Dan is a war …

English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918-39

by John Onions

1990

This book is the first detailed study of British fiction about the Great War. It examines the literature which radically altered our understanding of war and which, in the late twenties, created public controversy and a publishing phenomeno…

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West

2007

A soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West’s groundbreaking debut novel Jenny has been waiting for the return of her cousin, Lieutenant Chris Baldry, from the far…

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

2026

"The Naked and the Dead" is a powerful and visceral exploration of combat and the human condition during World War II. Set on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei in the Pacific, the narrative follows a platoon of American soldier…

Korean War Novel

by Suk Koo Rhee

2024

The Korean War Novel examines the ways that novels written by Korean and Asian American writers have represented the Korean War. By studying the ideological contours of works by Richard E. Kim, Ahn Junghyo, Susan Choi, Ha Jin, Choi In-hun a…

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