Great War Stories (Fiction)
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now …
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Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
For use in schools and libraries only. The powerful story of a young boy and his tragic fate in World War I makes a terrifying …
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The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
The classic story of a sensitive boy under the strain of war moving from cowardice to courage.
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The Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker
The eye in the door: Drawing of the history of the Pemberton Billing libel trial in which all Britain's military troubles were laid at the …
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge …
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
A book about love and courage and decency and glory. It is written with a wisdom that washes the mind and cools it. With an …
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From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's …
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The Thin Red Line
by James Jones
They are the men of C-for-Charlie company—“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and …
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Whistle
by James Jones
This third volume of a trilogy about World War II deals with the effects of the war on the lives of four soldiers.
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a …
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Bomber
by Len Deighton
A reissue of the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 dramatization of Len Deighton's story, recounting the horror unleashed by RAF bombers on a town in Germany …
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War Story
by Derek Robinson
¿Derek Robinson does for the Royal Flying Corps what the War Poets did for frontline soldiers¿ ¿ Daily Telegraph ¿Beneath the insolent wit and ludicrous …
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The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
The story of a platoon of Marines stationed on the Japanese-held island of Anopopei in World War II.
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Cross of Iron
by Willi Heinrich
CROSS OF IRON is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. …
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War of the Rats
by David L. Robbins
For six months in 1942, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies—the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history …