Top 100 War & Military Fiction Books

📘 The Things They Carried

A collection of linked short stories that follows a platoon of American soldiers and their experiences, thoughts, and burdens during the Vietnam War.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Survival in Auschwitz, the Nazi assault on humanity

Primo Levi recounts his 10‑month imprisonment as a 25‑year‑old chemist in Auschwitz, detailing the brutal realities of the Holocaust and the stark survival odds.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun is a harrowing anti‑war tale told through the eyes of a young American soldier who, after a brutal injury in World War I, is left with no limbs, eyes, or ears, forcing him into a claustrophobic refuge of memory and imagination.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 The Sympathizer

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Soldier X

A 16‑year‑old German boy is conscripted into Hitler’s army and sent to the brutal Eastern Front, where he must devise a desperate plan to survive the horrors of war.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Regeneration

Regeneration follows two real soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital during World War I, exploring their shell‑shock, rehabilitation, and the intellectual debates that shaped postwar Britain.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 The wars

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 A town like Alice

During World War II, young Englishwoman Jean Paget endures a brutal Japanese death march in Malaya, survives, and later returns to both Malaya and a remote Australian outpost to honor the villagers who saved her, confronting new challenges with wartime resilience.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Naked and the Dead

Norman Mailer’s 1949 debut delivers a vivid, journalistic portrait of a fourteen‑man U.S. Marine platoon fighting on a Japanese‑held island in the South Pacific, exposing the brutal reality of World War II combat.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sharpe's Tiger

Richard Sharpe, a green private in the British army, infiltrates Tippoo Sultan’s Mysore to strike at a French-backed tyrant and save a Scottish spy, risking his life to survive the tyrant’s men‑eating tigers.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Cilka's Journal

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Boots, belts, berets

A young aspirant joins India’s National Defence Academy, befriends fellow cadets, overcomes training challenges, and ultimately graduates, capturing the camaraderie and discipline of military schooling.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944

An eleven‑year‑old boy experiences the terror and hope of World War II as he finds himself in the midst of the Battle of D‑Day.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Winds of War

Herman Wouk chronicles the Henry family’s life as they become entangled in the events leading to America’s entry into World II.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 At Night All Blood Is Black

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Galaxy in Flames (Horus Heresy)

A fictional civil war saga featuring Warmaster Horus, his legion allies, and the betrayal that sparks a great conflict.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Deserto dei tartari

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Stay Where You are and Then Leave

Nine‑year‑old Alfie Summerfield shines shoes at King's Cross when he learns his wartime father is suffering shell shock in a London hospital.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Flight of the Old Dog

The riveting story of America's desperate attempt to protect itself from the enemy's advanced technology, with the Old Dog Zero One as the unlikely hope of victory.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Tom Clancy's EndWar

In Tom Clancy's EndWar, David S. Michaels brings the high‑stakes drama of a fictional World War III to life with pulse‑pounding action, cutting‑edge military tech, and a relentless global conflict.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Woods Runner

Young Samuel, 13, lives in a remote frontier colony and must trek into enemy-held New York City to rescue his kidnapped parents during the early American Revolution.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války

A satirical chronicle of a simple, cheerful soldier whose ordinary life is absurdly twisted by the bureaucracy of war.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Freddie's war

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sharpe's Rifles

Richard Sharpe, an officer judged too low for his rank, faces mutinous soldiers and enemy cavalry while leading elite riflemen and local partisans in daring operations during the Peninsular War against Napoleon.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Tomorrow, when the war began (Tomorrow #1)

Seven Australian teenagers must hide in the bush to survive when their country is invaded during a camping trip.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 In Memoriam

In 1914, a young man falls in love with his best friend fighting in World War I, creating an epic tale of forbidden romance amidst war's horrors.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Arrival and Departure

Arrival and Departure is a 1943 English novel by Arthur Koestler that explores the moral dilemmas of war, featuring soldiers, prisoners of war, and revolutionaries amid the backdrop of World War II.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The absolutist

In September 1919, nineteen‑year‑old Tristan Sadler travels from London to Norwich to deliver letters to Will Bancroft’s sister, but the real purpose is to confess the truths of their shared war experience and a long‑hidden bond.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 From here to eternity

A novel of courage, violence, and passions set against the backdrop of World War II, focusing on soldiers and their bonds within the military setting.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Thin Red Line

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Lantern Bearers

Aquila, a young Roman officer, chooses to stay in Britain and joins Roman‑British leader Ambrosius to defend the land against invading Saxon hordes.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

A tale of the U.S. Army’s elite Ghost Recon operatives, armed with unparalleled stealth and combat skill as they confront global threats.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 One of Ours

A slice‑of‑life depiction of a Nebraska family in the early 20th century, showcasing everyday routines against the backdrop of growing tensions that will lead to World War I.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 My Secret War

A young girl in 1941 Long Island faces parental separation and fears the Pacific war, finding courage and friendship as events like Pearl Harbor unfold.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Kaputt

Kapit refers to Curzio Malaparte’s first-hand account of war, drawn from his perilous travels to the Eastern Front and other fronts during World War II.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sword Point

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Birds Without Wings

A novel about religious intolerance, nationalism, and the impact of World War I on the lives of ordinary soldiers and civilians, with a focus on the tragic love story of Philothei and Ibrahim.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns)

Winter Ihernglass disguises herself as a man to join the Vordanai Colonials, then climbs to a command post where she must ally with a king‑appointed colonel tasked with restoring order.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The Corps (Semper Fi / Call to Arms / Counterattack)

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The last war

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Saving Private Ryan

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sabre jet ace

A nonfiction e‑book chronicles the life of Joseph Christopher McConnell, Jr., the United States Air Force's top Korean War jet ace, who downed 16 MiG‑15s in F‑86 Sabres and earned the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Once An Eagle

A sweeping study of American soldiering across three 20th‑century wars through the lives of Sam Damon and Courtney Massengale.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The ghost road

The final volume of Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy, *The Ghost Road* follows the psychological toll of World War I on soldiers and their healers, and was awarded the 1995 Booker Prize.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Going after Cacciato

A young U.S. soldier abandons his rifle and embarks on a surreal journey from Vietnam’s jungles to Paris, confronting the battle between fear and heroism in himself and others.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Sharpe's company

Richard Sharpe faces a cruel winter, a career‑stealing rival, and his most ruthless foe yet as he vows to storm the strongly fortified town of Badajoz in hopes of redeeming himself.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Sharpe's Fury

Set in 1811 during the Napoleonic Wars, "Sharpe's Fury" follows Captain Richard Sharpe as he navigates political intrigue in Cadiz, confronts blackmailers, and ultimately battles in the historic Battle of Barrosa to defend Britain’s interests.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Thunder point

When Hitler enlists Martin Bormann’s escape to South America, a terrorist named Sean Dillon is coerced by Britons to recover the lost Nazi documents aboard a wrecked U‑boat in the Caribbean. The briefcase’s secrets could implicate the Duke of Windsor and alter the world.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sharpe's Prey

Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is sent to Copenhagen in 1807 to broker a bribe that could prevent war, but the city’s strategic fleet, Danish neutrality, and French ambitions turn his mission into a perilous game of spies and survival.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Sharpe's sword

In the peninsular battlefield of 1812, Captain Richard Sharpe confronts a deadly secret conflict while the British plan a decisive engagement that could alter the course of the war.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Across the river and into the trees

A war‑ravaged American colonel in Italy after World War II falls in love with a young Italian countess.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Milagro Beanfield War

John Nichols’s fiction novel explores the lives of Mexican Americans and the challenges of water rights in contemporary America.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The drowned cities

In a grim, war‑torn future America, orphan siblings Mahlia and Mouse flee the Drowned Cities, only to confront threats that test their bond and survival in a society unraveling under endless civil conflict.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The four feathers

British soldier Harry Feversham faces a crisis of honour when he abandons his regiment before leaving for the Sudan. To prove his bravery and clear his name, he must complete the mission he once refused.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The healer's war

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The Enormous Room

E. E. Cummings’s first‑hand account of his imprisonment in the French concentration camp La Ferté‑Mace during World I, detailing life as an American ambulance corps member and the conditions of the camp.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Night of the Fox

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Lisa's War

In Nazi‑occupied Denmark, teenage Jews, led by Lisa, join an underground resistance and must flee for their lives.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Silver Donkey

In World War I France, four children learn the value of honesty, loyalty and courage from an English deserter who tells them tales linked to his silver donkey charm.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Balkan trilogy

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sharpe's enemy

During the Peninsular War, Richard Sharpe confronts his ruthless nemesis, Obadiah Hakeswill, as both men clash in a siege on a mountain pass that holds captured British and French women.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

Boowie discovers his grandmother’s World War II diary, revealing her childhood in England during the D‑Day preparations and the story of her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, whose name carries a deeper family resonance.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Sloop of War

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Beasts of No Nation

A young boy named Agu is lured into a guerrilla unit amid a West African civil war, where he struggles with the loss of his father, the war’s brutality, and the paternal allure of his commander.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Prey

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Night soldiers

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Volokolamsk Highway

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The boyfriend war

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Water Song

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 The yellow birds

A poignant novel exploring the aftermath of war on a single Iraq war veteran.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The girl on the Via Flaminia

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The return of the soldier

Rebecca West’s wartime novel follows an English soldier with shell‑shock and three women, weaving a tight domestic setting with the upheaval of World War I and early twentieth‑century class shifts.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Fox Girl

Set after the Korean War, Fox Girl follows Hyun Jin—a disowned child of an American GI—and her friends Sookie and Lobetto as they navigate survival in wartime Korea.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Perang Dunia II

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Fly away Peter

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Soldier boys

Two German and American boys join opposing armies during World War II, but their paths cross in the Battle of the Bulge.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Cauldron

A speculative look at a global economic collapse that sparks a new era of trade wars, a Franco‑German “EuroCon” alliance, and ultimately a third World War.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Sayonara

Set during the Korean War, *Sayonara* follows an American U.S. Army officer who falls in love with a Japanese woman, exploring both romance and the complexities of conflict.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 When the World Was Ours

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Au revoir là-haut

After the Great War, two wounded French veterans navigate a society that has left them behind, resorting to cunning schemes to survive as they seek justice and redemption in post‑war France.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 The tenth man

In occupied France, a prison holds a grim lottery: one in every ten inmates faces execution. Rich lawyer Louis Chavel confronts the ultimate test of nerve as danger looms.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Rose Blanche

A young German girl's curiosity leads her to uncover the horrors of the concentration camps during World War II.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Soldiers' pay

William Faulkner’s first novel follows returning WWI soldiers as they encounter a war‑scarred pilot and witness his gradual decline amid complex romantic entanglements.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Girl at war

Ten‑year‑old Ana Juric loses her peaceful Croatian life to the 1991 civil war, endures guerilla fighting and child soldier experiences, then escapes to America and later grapples with hiding her traumatic past.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The red

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The colonels

The colonels recount the experiences of seasoned veterans who, after fighting in Europe, Korea, Greece, and Indochina, return to the United States to shape the next generation of American soldiers for future conflicts.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Someone Named Eva

A brave Jewish girl named Eva survives the war in Nazi‑occupied Czechoslovakia, subtly disguising herself as Aryan while hiding her true identity.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Boy at War

During the attack on Pearl Harbor, teenage Adam faces the chaos of war and seeks his missing father, a naval officer aboard the U.S.S. Arizona.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Thunder Below!

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Don't cry for me, sergeant-major

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The true story of Hansel and Gretel

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The Gallery

Set in occupied Naples in 1944, The Gallery follows U.S. soldiers and local residents as they convoke at the bombed Galleria Umberto, confronting war‑shattered ideals and the realities of gay military life.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Regeneration Tie In

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I Fiction

📘 Patriotism

A Japanese lieutenant returns home to his wife to reveal that his comrades have mutinied, and together they choose to end their lives by ritual seppuku, exploring themes of honor, loyalty, and the tragedy of war.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Twelve o'clock high!

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Brotherhood of war (New Breed / Aviators)

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 The captain

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 More Than Conqueror

When a college graduate meets her college‑classmate on the brink of a fatal war mission, their friendship turns into a profound love that must survive the impossible distance of war and a sudden proposal. Faith and honor guide them through uncertainty and choice.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 A wartime summer

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II Fiction

📘 Acts of War

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction