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Category:  War (Sorted by Author's last name)


In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat (2004) - Rick Atkinson (-)    (Grade:B)

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (2002) - Rick Atkinson (-)    (Grade:A)

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) (2007) - Rick Atkinson (-)    (Grade:A)

Empire of the Sun (1984) - J. G. Ballard (11/15/1930 -4/19/2009)    (Grade:A+)

The Ghost Road (1995) - Pat Barker (5/08/1943 -)    (Grade:F)

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (story) (1890) - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842 -1914?)    (Grade:B)

Civil War Stories () - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (6/24/1842 -1914?)    (Grade:B)

The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) - Pierre Boulle (1912-1994)    (Grade:A+)

Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War (1999) - Mark Bowden (1951 -)    (Grade:A+)

Hitler Stopped by Franco (2001) - Burt Boyar (11/30/1927 -04/04/2018)    (Grade:A)

Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War (2003) - Walter J. Boyne (-)    (Grade:B+)

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (2007) - Matthew Brzezinski (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Lessons of Terror : A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again (2002) - Caleb Carr (8/02/1955 -)    (Grade:C-)

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1998) - Iris Chang (-)    (Grade:A)

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (2004) - Paul Clayton (1948-)    (Grade:B)

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003) - Stanley Cloud (-)    (Grade:A)

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-)    (Grade:A-)

Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (1998) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)    (Grade:A)

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) - Stephen Crane (11/01/1871 -6/05/1900)    (Grade:B+)

Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life (2002) - Carlo D'Este (1936-)    (Grade:A)

The Rat Patrol (1966) - Norman A. Daniels (06/03/1905-07/19/1995)    (Grade:B+)

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939 -)    (Grade:A+)

The USA Trilogy: (The 42nd Parallel, 1930; Nineteen Nineteen, 1932; The Big Money, 1936) () - John Dos Passos (1/14/1896 -9/28/1970)    (Grade:C)

The Pity of War : Explaining World War I (1998) - Niall Ferguson (-)    (Grade:A+)

The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II (2001) - Thomas Fleming (-)    (Grade:A+)

Civil War () - Shelby Foote (11/17/1916 -6/27/2005)    (Grade:A+)

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1948) - C.S. Forester (8/27/1899 -4/02/1966)    (Grade:A)

Cold Mountain (1997) - Charles Frazier (11/04/1950 -)    (Grade:C)

Sergeant Lamb's America (1940) - Robert Graves (7/24/1895 -12/07/1985)    (Grade:B+)

The Quiet American (1956) - Graham Greene (10/02/1904 -4/03/1991)    (Grade:A)

Last Journey: A Father and Son in Wartime (2009) - Darrell Griffin (-)    (Grade:A)

The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? (2000) - Stephanie Gutmann (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Bridge at No Gun Ri : A Hidden Chapter from the Korean War (2001) - Charles J. Hanley (-)    (Grade:D)

The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny (1999) - Victor Davis Hanson (9/05/1953 -)    (Grade:A+)

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - Chris Hedges (-)    (Grade:C)

Mister Roberts (1946) - Thomas Heggen (-)    (Grade:B+)

Catch-22 (1961) - Joseph Heller (05/01/1923 -12/12/1999)    (Grade:A)

A Bell for Adano (1944) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)    (Grade:B+)

Hiroshima (1946) - John Hersey (6/17/1914 -3/24/1993)    (Grade:B)

War and the Liberal Conscience (Trevelyan Lectures) (1978) - Michael Eliot Howard (11/29/1922-)    (Grade:A)

The Thin Red Line (1962) - James Jones (11/06/1921 -5/09/1977)    (Grade:C)

The First World War (1998) - John Keegan (-)    (Grade:B+)

Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War (1993) - Michael Kelly (-)    (Grade:A+)

Schindler's List (1982) - Thomas Keneally (-)    (Grade:A)

Fredericksburg : Squandered Courage and Uncertain Allegiance (2004) - Wyatt Kingseed (-)    (Grade:B)

The Battle of Marathon (2010) - Peter Krentz (-)    (Grade:B)

The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory (2002) - Derek Leebaert ( -)    (Grade:A-)

Vietnam: The Necessary War: Grand Strategy, Domestic Politics, and the American War for Indochina () - Michael Lind (-)    (Grade:C)

Day of Infamy (1957) - Walter Lord (1917-)    (Grade:A)

June 1941: Hitler and Stalin (2006) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924 -)    (Grade:B-)

Eastern Approaches (1949) - Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean (03/11/1911-06/15/1996)    (Grade:A)

The Naked and the Dead (1948) - Norman Mailer (01/31/1923 -11/10/2007)    (Grade:D)

The Volga Rises in Europe (1951) - Curzio Malaparte (6/09/1898 -7/19/1957)    (Grade:C+)

Three War Stories (2013) - David Mamet (11/30/1947-)    (Grade:B-)

Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France (2000) - Ernest May (-)    (Grade:B+)

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (2006) - Mark Moyar (5/12/1971 -)    (Grade:A+)

1812: A Novel (1997) - David Nevin (-)    (Grade:B+)

The Sorrow of War (1991) - Bao Ninh (10/18/1952-)    (Grade:C)

H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)    (Grade:A+)

Post Captain (1972) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914 -01/02/2000)    (Grade:A+)

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003) - Lynne Olson (-)    (Grade:A)

The English Patient (1992) - Michael Ondaatje (9/12/1943 -)    (Grade:C)

The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2000) - Richard J. Overy (-)    (Grade:A)

Flying Tigers over Cambodia: An American Pilot's Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift (2001) - Larry Partridge (1936-)    (Grade:B)

The War in 2020 (1991) - Ralph Peters (1952-)    (Grade:C+)

A Time of War (1990) - Michael Peterson (-)    (Grade:C+)

Killing Rommel: A Novel (2008) - Steven Pressfield (September 1943 -)    (Grade:A+)

Torture and Democracy (2007) - Darius Rejali (-)    (Grade:C+)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) - Erich Maria Remarque (6/22/1898 -9/25/1970)    (Grade:C)

The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999) - Robert V. Remini (1921-)    (Grade:B+)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-)    (Grade:C)

The War of the Rats (1999) - David L. Robbins (-)    (Grade:C)

The Hunters (1956) - James Salter (6/10/1925 -06/19/2015)    (Grade:A)

The Death and Life of Dith Pran (1980) - Sydney H. Schanberg (1/17/ 1934 -7/09/2016)    (Grade:C+)

Farewell to the King (1969) - Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-)    (Grade:B)

The Killer Angels (1974) - Michael Shaara (6/23/1928 -5/05/1988)    (Grade:A+)

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) - Neil Sheehan (-)    (Grade:C)

A Better War : The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999) - Lewis Sorley (1934-)    (Grade:A)

The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (11/27/1957 -)    (Grade:A+)

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003) - Anthony Swofford (-)    (Grade:A-)

The Nightingale's Song (1995) - Robert Timberg (-)    (Grade:B-)

Johnny Got His Gun (1939) - Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976)    (Grade:F)

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (1977) - Michael Walzer ( -)    (Grade:D+)

Arguing About War (2004) - Michael Walzer ( -)    (Grade:A)

The Return of the Soldier (1918) - Rebecca West (1892-1983)    (Grade:A+)

The Last Battle : The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War (2001) - Ralph Wetterhahn ( -)    (Grade:A)

Night (1958) - Elie Wiesel (1928-)    (Grade:A)

Ride With the Devil [aka : Woe to Live On] (1987) - Daniel Woodrell (-)    (Grade:B-)

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing (2007) - Bob Woodruff (08/18/1961-)    (Grade:A)