Novels set during World War II

1957 historical novel by Boris Pasternak

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, 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

Maus, often published as '''''Maus: A Survivor's Tale''', is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice, Germans as cats and Poles as pigs. Critics have classified Maus'' as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992, it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

2006 novel by Markus Zusak

1968 film directed by Brian G. Hutton

2001 novel by Ian McEwan

1949 novel by Agatha Christie

1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje

1958 novel by Chinghiz Aitmatov

1941 novel by Agatha Christie

novel by Evelyn Waugh

1950 novel by Ernest Hemingway

satirical, epistolary Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis

2006 novel by Jonathan Littell

2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño

1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon

2006 novel by Thomas Harris

2014 novel by Anthony Doerr

novel by Norman Mailer

novel by Pierre Boulle

short story written in early 1942 by Vercors

1954 war novel by Väinö Linna

1962 novel by Erich Maria Remarque

novel by Kurt Vonnegut

book by Jerzy Kosinski

HHhH is the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle. The book is a metafictional novel depicting Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II, along with the writing of the novel. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman.

Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, drawing thematic parallels between wartime secrecy and modern information control, emphasizing the role of information in political, military, and personal domains.

Crabwalk (2002), published in German as Im Krebsgang, is a novella by German author Günter Grass, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. Born in 1927 in the Free City of Danzig (now known as Gdańsk, Poland), Grass explores the effects of the past on the present: in this novel, he interweaves various strands and combines fact and fiction in exploring the lack of attention to German victimhood in their losses in World War II.

1942 novella by John Steinbeck

2000 novel by Jo Nesbø

novel by Vasily Grossman

planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky

1947 novel by Hans Fallada

1975 novel by Jack Higgins

1962 novel by James Clavell

1951 novel by James Jones

novel by Graham Greene

James Charles Bigglesworth, nicknamed "Biggles", is a fictional pilot and adventurer, the title character and hero of the Biggles series of adventure books, written for young readers by W. E. Johns (1893–1968). Biggles made his first appearance in the story "The White Fokker", published in the first issue of Popular Flying magazine and again as part of the first collection of Biggles stories, The Camels Are Coming (both 1932). Johns continued to write "Biggles books" until his death in 1968. The series eventually included nearly a hundred volumes – novels as well as short story collections – m

novel by Jurek Becker (1969)

novel by Aleksandr Fadejev

1984 novel by J. G. Ballard

1947 novel by Compton Mackenzie

novel by Ken Follett

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novel by James Jones

1993 novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

book by Patrick Modiano

novel by Herman Wouk

2014 novel by Richard Flanagan

novel by Ken Follett

literary work by Heinrich Böll

novel by Ken Follett

novel by Ken Follett

novel by Ken Follett

1983 novel by Hugo Claus

1955 novel by Stanislav Lem

1971 novel by Herman Wouk

novel by Anna Seghers

1945 novel by Alexander Bek