![]() | A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $8.29 / Used from: $2.89 An American classic about an individualist's view of World War II. All he wants his a good glass of wine and a beautiful woman. During war, you can have neither...
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![]() | War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.50 A graphic tale of Napoleon's butcher of eastern Europe in his attempt to take over the world seen through the eyes of every day Russians who are forced to defend themselves.
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![]() | The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics) by Stephen Crane
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.01 Perhaps the first novel about the Civil War that reveals the emotions experienced by the soldiers. The protagonist experiences gripping moments of "flight or fight." Amazingly realistic.
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![]() | A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.50 Two infantry troops--one American, the other German--are staking each other out in the cold German Alps during WWII. The Germans want to surrender, the Americans are about to respond--then...
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![]() | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy used from: $0.01 The war to end slavery and hold the Union together is the backdrop to this epic about a southern belle who endures her own battle scars.
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![]() | Animal Farm (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.04 Civil war broke out in Spain, Stalin was butchering millions of his own people. George Orwell, a devout socialist, realized the true horror that comes with Marxist Revolution.
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![]() | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.49 Who's good and who's bad? Joseph Heller keeps us guessing as we venture into this satirical novel of World War II. Written during the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement.
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![]() | The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics) by Virgil
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.65 Those butchering Greeks have taken Troy and put an end to the Trojan War. Frightened Troyites flee in despair and land in a strange, more peaceful land.
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![]() | The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.67 Herman Wouk's masterpiece about a close-knit family just as America is about to get dragged into Europe's World War II.
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![]() | Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A futuristic tale about the two super powers battling it out using the most high-tech weaponry systems. Many of Tom Clancy's technological predictions have come true.
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![]() | The Odyssey by Homer
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.75 Another great war epic about those dasterly Greeks.
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![]() | All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A shockingly anti-war novel considering it was published right after World War I. It is written from the German perspective by a German.
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![]() | The Last of the Mohicans (Bantam Classics) by James Fenimore Cooper
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.01 Desperate to escape the French and Indian wars, the protagonist escapes to live among the natives.
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![]() | The Caine Mutiny: A Novel by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.88 The novel that earned Herman Wouk the Pulitzer in fiction. A neurotic sea captain and his leery midshipmen come to blows.
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![]() | The Iliad (Dover Thrift Editions) by Homer
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 A profoundly deep penetration into the Greek wars. Poetic and bloody.
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![]() | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.48 Modern, surreal prose highlights this classic novel about an American prisoner of war trapped inside Germany during heavy allied bombardment.
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![]() | War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.88 A brilliant sequel to "The Winds of War." This time we see the same family preceding World War II.
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![]() | Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Buy used from: $0.01 The "great" socialist revolution has Russia by an icy grip, and innocent people are being imprisoned for merely disagreeing with the state. But the last victims of Soviet tyranny are the tyrants.
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![]() | Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 Euope's clash between ethnicities sees a glimmer of tolerance when a wealthy industrialist attempts to save his Jewish workers from the Nazis. A true story.
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![]() | Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $3.53 The author of this novel resented the sitcom for portarying war negatively. He believed it was a necessary evil. The Klinger in his novel is no noble crossdresser, but a worthless coward.
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![]() | Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $0.01 Winner of the National Book Award, this novel takes on imagery from "The Odyssey," only instead of the Trojan War, it's the Civil War.
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![]() | A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 The British overtake the Hindus and, despite budding friendships between the British and Hindu soldiers, war must go on....
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![]() | The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition by Norman Mailer
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.79 Considered by many to be the best novel of WWII, Norman Mailer's epic about a group of American soldiers fighting off the Japanese in the Pacific.
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![]() | For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.05 Ernest Hemingway depicts the Spanish Civil War and how it broke the spirit of revolutionairies--yet kept the dictators in power for generations.
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![]() | The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $1.01 What minority goup HASN'T Europeans tried to kill off? The National Socialist Party of Germany (NAZIs) places pink triangles on suspected gay men in order to differentiate them from others.
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