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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: War (35 books)

The best classic books from the War genre.

The Killer Angels

The Killer Angels

Michael Shaara

War
4.4 (5)

<b>1. THE SPY</B><BR><BR>He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted.

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A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice

Nevil Shute

War
4.5 (4)

James MacFadden died in March 1905 when he was forty-seven years old; he was riding in the Driffield Point-to-Point.

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From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

James Jones

War
5.0 (2)

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.

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In Our Time

In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

War
4.33 (3)

The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight.

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Good Night, Mr. Tom

Good Night, Mr. Tom

Michelle Magorian

War
5.0 (1)

"Yes," said Tom bluntly, on opening the door. "What d'you want?"

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The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer

War
5.0 (1)

Nobody could sleep. When morning came, assult craft would be lowered and a first wave of troops would ride through the surf and charge ashore on he beach at Anopopei. All over the ship, all through the convoy, there was a knowledge that in a few hours some of them were going to be dead.

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History of the Peloponnesian War

History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

War
4.0 (2)

Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and more worth writing about than any of those which had taken place in the past.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

War
4.0 (2)

Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair.

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An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

War
4.5 (2)

If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my house becomes visible between the tops of two gingko trees.

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The Good Soldier Svejk

The Good Soldier Svejk

Jaroslav Hasek

War
3.5 (2)

'And so they've killed our Ferdinand', said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and now lived by selling dogs - ugly, mongrel monstrosities whose pedigrees he forged."Nii nad tapsidki meie Ferdinandi," ütles virtin härra Švejkile, kes oli aastate eest vabanenud sõjaväeteenistusest, kui kroonuarstide komisjon ta lõplikult lolliks tunnistas, ja elatas ennast nüüd sellega, et müütas mingeid jõledaid segaverelisi koerapeletisi, võltsides nende sugupuud.

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