Best War Novels (Fiction & Nonfiction)
Book
The Unfinished Work
by Frank Meredith
After the Civil War's opening battle in Manassa, VA, young Jake Becker escorted teens Eliza and Kathleen Bigler to stay with their relatives in his …
Book
Code Talker
by Joseph Bruchac
This deeply affecting novel honors all the young men who dared to serve in World War II, and it honors the culture and language of …
Book
When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work …
Book
Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes
Young Marine lieutenant and platoon commander Waino Mellas and his battalion learn about life, loss, and the horrors of war during their thirteen-month tour in …
Book
Letters from the Front Lines
by Stuart Franklin Platt (Rear Admiral.)
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have served in the Middle East, putting their lives on the line and fighting for not only the future of …
Book
Operation Mincemeat
by Ben Macintyre
Chronicles World War II's pivotal deception by two British naval officers who successfully fed false intelligence to the Nazis about where Allied forces were planning …
Book
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “remarkable” (Ken Burns), “utterly absorbing” (Forbes) Civil War classic that inspired the film Gettysburg, with …
Book
The Untold War
by Nancy Sherman
In a book that draws from interviews with soldiers from all major 20th-and 21st-century conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan, the author illuminates the extent to …
Book
Heaven in the Midst of Hell
War exposes the divide between who we think we are and how we behave in extreme situations. Sheri Snively, who served as a Quaker chaplain …
Book
Beyond Band of Brothers
by Dick Winters
“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride …
Book
The Occupied Garden
by Kristen den Hartog
The Occupied Garden is the powerful true story of a market gardener and his fiercely devout wife who were living a simple life in Holland …
Book
The Coldest War
by James Brady
America's "forgotten war" lasted just thirty-seven months, yet 54,246 Americans died in that time -- nearly as many as died in ten years in Vietnam. …
Book
A Vietcong Memoir
by Truong Nhu Tang
"An absorbing and moving autobiography...An important addition not only to the literature of Vietnam but to the larger human story of hope, violence and disillusion …
Book
In Deadly Combat
by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann
In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Herbert Bidermann served in that lethal …
Book
Black Edelweiss
by Johann Voss
When a 20-year old Waffen-SS veteran of two years' combat against the Soviets and Americans is confronted with the awful, undeniable truth of the Holocaust, …
Book
Dreams in a Time of War
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Recounts the story of the author's childhood, covering his early years in World War II-era Kenya as the fifth child of a third wife, his …
Book
Once a Marine
by Nick Popaditch
Known as "The cigar marine" from an AP photograph taken April 9, 2003, this is the story of Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch from his tours …
Book
Civil War
The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it's time to choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more …
Book
Lee
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles …
Book
The Luck of the Draw
by C. Kenneth Ruiz
The author recalls his wartime experiences first aboard the cruiser USS Vincennes, which was attacked and sunk by a surprise Japanese attack, and later on …
Book
Palace Cobra
by Ed Rasimus
Picking up where the acclaimed "When Thunder Rolled" leaves off, the author pens a riveting memoir of his service as an experienced combat pilot in …