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All Quiet on the Western Front
1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque
A Farewell to Arms
1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway
The Good Soldier Švejk
novel by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek
Catch-22
Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It was his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot.
Slaughterhouse-Five
'''''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death''''' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction–infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Alli
The Tin Drum
1959 novel by Günter Grass
Cat's Cradle
1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut
War with the Newts
novel by Karel Čapek
The Quiet American
1955 novel by Graham Greene
The Road Back
1931 novel by Erich Maria Remarque
The Forever War
1974 novel by Joe Haldeman
Johnny Got His Gun
1939 novel by Dalton Trumbo
Jingo
Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett
The Unknown Soldier
1954 war novel by Väinö Linna
The Word for World Is Forest
science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972; first published in English as a book, 1976, presumably expanded
On the Beach
1957 novel by Nevil Shute
Hiroshima
non-fiction work by John Hersey
From Here to Eternity
1951 novel by James Jones
Die Waffen nieder!
1889 novel by Bertha von Suttner
The Thin Red Line
novel by James Jones
Two Women
1958 Italian-language novel by Alberto Moravia
Billiards at Half-past Nine
novel by Heinrich Böll
Fires on the Plain
1951 novel
The Short-Timers
1979 novel by Gustav Hasford
To the End of the Land
2008 novel by David Grossman