Books like Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

During World War II, Lieutenant Lance Winslow falls in love with Noelle Laurent in Paris, while freelance correspondent Josephine Hellinger battles wartime censorship to report the front lines. Their fates intertwine as the war escalates.

This moving, suspense-filled story about men at war, and after war, is a historical novel with all the drama and the verity of the best of its kind. But in one major respect it differs from other stories which vividly re-create exciting and meaningful events in the past: the difference is that we, of today, made the history of which this story grew. We know there were men in the American Army like Sergeant Dondolo and Major Willoughby, for whom World War II was chiefly a once-in-a-lifetime chance to feather their own nests in characteristic though quite dissimilar fashions. There were also unimaginative, methodical good eggs like Corporal Ambramovici, tired, honest, and frustrated officers like Colonel DeWitt, and flamboyant brass like General Farrish. And any one of us might have been Lieutenant David Yates, torn between his loyalty to his wife at home and his passion for a French girl, trying to determine, in the welter of conflict, whether he was involved in a Crusade or a Conquest. We might not know so well Sergeant Bing, fighting against his former countrymen, for whom the war was surely a personal crusade.Men, and often women, are the theme of this novel. The story lies in the development of people, especially of Bing and Yates, under the intensified emotions of war. Some of the people are connected with a Propaganda Intelligence Unit, some with an Armored Division; others are civilians on our side and on the enemy’s.“…Unquestionably the most important fiction to come out of World War II…only a writer of understanding and sympathy, combined with creative artistry, can clothe his characters in flesh and blood—and that is exactly what Heym has done.”—Capt. P. J. Searles, reviewer for the New York Herald Tribune, New York Times and Boston Post.

A son uncovers his WWII veteran father's hidden past—letters, a court-martial, and a concentration‑camp rescue—forcing him to confront buried family secrets and the true story of the man he never knew.

Three stories about soldiers in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War who were aided by combat dogs.