Top 100 War & Military Fiction Books

📘 Survival in Auschwitz, the Nazi assault on humanity

This book describes Primo Levi's experiences in the concentration camp at Auschwitz during the Second World War. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in Auschwitz before the camp was liberated by the Red Army. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his shipment, Levi was one of only twenty who left the camp alive.

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

📘 The Sympathizer

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Regeneration

A historical fiction novel set during World War I, documenting characters based on real people and their experiences with shell shock and recovery at the CraigLockhart Hospital.

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

📘 The wars

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

📘 A town like Alice

Nevil Shute's most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children.

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

📘 Sharpe's Tiger

In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops.The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944

In this book there is a massive war with the Nazis and eleven year old boy is caught in the middle of it.

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)

Having made a miraculous recovery from the grevious injuries he suffered on Davin, Warmaster Horus now leads the triumphant Imperial forces against the rebel world of Isstvan III.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Deserto dei tartari

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Stay Where You are and Then Leave

Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.

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

A new phenomenon begins.Created by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom ClancyBased on the bestselling video game, this new series will take readers onto the battlefields of World War III with the technical savvy and explosive action that Clancy fans have come to expect.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Woods Runner

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel's parents are taken away, prisoners.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Freddie's war

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

📘 Sharpe's Rifles

As if being cut off from the army and surrounded by enemy cavalry is not bad enough, this officer who in the eyes of his society does not belong to his rank, Richard Sharpe has to deal with mutinous soldiers as well! It is only when he meets with a band of partisans that things become tolerable at best.

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** (1943) is the third novel of Arthur Koestler’s trilogy concerning the conflict between morality and expedience (as described in the postscript to the novel’s 1966 Danube Edition).

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II 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

Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius to fight against the Saxon hordes. Historical fiction.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

The U.S. Army’s Special Forces are known for their highly specialized training and courage behind enemy lines. But there’s a group that’s even more stealthy and deadly. It’s comprised of the most feared operators on the face of the earth—the soldiers of Ghost Recon.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 One of Ours

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed. "Ralph, Ralph, get awake! Come down and help me wash the car." "What for?" "Why, aren't we going to the circus today?" "Car's all right. Let me alone.

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

📘 My Secret War

It is the Fall of 1941 and Madeline Beck is living with her mother at Mrs. Hawkins' Mansion-by-the-Sea, a boarding house on Long Island. Her father has been sent off to guard the Pacific coast on an aircraft carrier, and Madeline is very scared of all that she hears about the impending War in the Pacific.

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

📘 Kaputt

"Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss, which became an international bestseller when it was published after the war.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War II 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 poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she's promoted to a command post.

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

📘 Sabre jet ace

Fictional story about Korean war triple jet ace Joseph Christopher McConnell, Jr. (30 January 1922 – 25 August 1954) He was a United States Air Force fighter pilot who was the top American flying ace during the Korean War.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The ghost road

**From Amazon.com:** **The final book in the Regeneration Trilogy and winner of the 1995 Booker Prize.** *The Ghost Road* is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy. The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts.

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

📘 Going after Cacciato

In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Sharpe's company

Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of actionThe Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the authorIt was a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it was the worst he could remember. He had lost his command to a wealthy man – a man with money to buy the promotion Sharpe coveted.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Sharpe's Fury

For more than twenty years, Richard Sharpe, the brave and dashing officer who rose from rags on the street to a commission in his majesty's army, has been thrilling audiences on both the page and on screen.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Thunder point

The day before Hitler commits suicide, he arranges for Nazi leader Martin Bormann to flee to South America in a German U-boat. Terrorist Sean Dillon is saved from a Yugoslavian firing squad --- if he agrees to help the British government retrieve the long-lost documents of Martin Bormann.

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

📘 Sharpe's Prey

The eighteenth novel in this bestselling series takes Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen.It is 1807 and Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, newly returned to England, now wants to leave the army. He is offered one last job: go to Copenhagen, help deliver a bribe and so stop a war. It seems very easy.But nothing is easy in a Europe stirred by French ambitions.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Sharpe's sword

Having forced their way into spain in 1812, the british plan a battle that will be more decisive then any that has gone on before during the fight in spain in terms of strategic effects. Meanwhile captain Sharpe finds himself in the middle of the secret war.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Across the river and into the trees

The story of Richard Cantwell, a war-ravaged American colonel stationed in Italy at the close of the Second World War, and his love for a young Italian countess.

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

📘 The Milagro Beanfield War

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The drowned cities

In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The four feathers

British guardsman Harry Feversham stuns his friends when, just before he is scheduled to ship off to the Sudan, he quits his regiment. In shocked retaliation for this dastardly act of cowardice, Harry is presented with four feathers: one from each of his three closest regimental friends and the fourth-and the most devastating-from his fiancée.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The healer's war

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The Enormous Room

The Enormous Room is Cummings’s autobiographical narrative of the time he spent in La Ferté Mace, a French concentration camp a hundred miles west of Paris.

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

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Lisa and other teenage Jews become involved in an underground resistance movement and eventually must flee for their lives.

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

📘 Balkan trilogy

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

📘 Sharpe's enemy

A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage on a strategic mountain pass. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.

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

📘 Sloop of War

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Beasts of No Nation

In this stunning debut novel, Agu, a young boy in an unnamed West African nation, is recruited into a unit of guerrilla fighters as civil war engulfs his country. Haunted by his father's own death at the hands of militants, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Volokolamsk Highway

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

📘 The boyfriend war

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 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

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also embodies in its characters the shifts in England's class structures at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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

📘 Fox Girl

"Set in the aftermath of the Korean War, Fox Girl is the story of its forgotten victims, the abandoned children of American GIs who live in a world where life is about survival.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 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

Larry Bond's insight into a hypothetical economic downturn so severe it began the end of free trade and another world war was not only an interesting and telling story when this book was written, but over 15 years later it still can teach us a lot.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Sayonara

From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with deep sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. Army man who, against all odds, falls for a fascinating Japanese woman

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Au revoir là-haut

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: World War I 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

<p><i>Soldiers’ Pay</i> is <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-faulkner">William Faulkner’s</a> first published novel. It begins with a train journey on which two American soldiers, Joe Gilligan and Julian Lowe, are returning from the First World War.

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

📘 Girl at war

When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, ten-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 The red

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The colonels

They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the United States to forge a new type of American soldier--one to be tested on the beaches of Cuba and in a new war yet to come...

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Someone Named Eva

The story of a young fictionalized girl raised near Prague whose village is destroyed by the Germans in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi official (true event). "Eva" is jewish but appears to meet the aryan sterotype. She is one of thousands of children taken from their families and given to Nazi families to raise (true event).

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

John Horne Burns brought *The Gallery* back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans.

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

📘 Regeneration Tie In

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

📘 Patriotism

A lieutenant in the Japanese army comes home to his wife and informs her that his closest friends have become mutineers. He and his beautiful loyal wife decide to end their lives together. In unwavering detail Mishima describes Shinji and Reiko making love for the last time and the couple's seppuku that follows.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Twelve o'clock high!

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

📘 The captain

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

📘 More Than Conqueror

Blythe Bonniwell was finished with college and settling in at home, finding her place in various activities to support the boys fighting overseas. She had her small group of friends, among them lifelong friend Dan Seavers. Although Dan was her frequent escort, she counted him only a good friend.

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

📘 Fires on the plain

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

📘 A Prayer for the Ship

Small, quick-moving torpedo boats played a vital role in protecting the Allied convoys in the English Channel and the North Sea during World War II, and Sub-Lieutenant Clive Royce is newly assigned to MTB 1991, joining a crew already seasoned by death and fear.

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

📘 Standing at the scratch line

The story opens in 1916 in the steamy bayous of Louisiana. Young LeRoi "King" Tremain and his uncle Jake attempt a raid on a rival family's compound. In doing so, Jake dies, but not before LeRoi kills two corrupt white deputies.

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

📘 Red Cap

A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when he's captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Tamar

When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before.

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

📘 The spoils of war

A war of alliances faces a threat from within the ranks of its allies.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The Saboteurs

A gripping adventure novel about the OSS and the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II.

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

📘 Honor Bound / Behind the Lines / The Murderers

Three Griffin novels in the same series, featuring likable characters and historical elements.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Hugh Wynne, free Quaker

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Brotherhood of war : the Lieutenants, the Captains, the Majors

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The Ten Thousand

When a newly independent Ukraine defies Russia's demand to hand over its nuclear missiles, American forces must assault the arsenal, secure the weapons, and send them by air to an American base in Germany.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Chân dung tướng ngụy Sài Gòn

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 A soldier of the great war

A Roman student is torn from his carefree life when World War I breaks out, and fifty years later, recounts the triumphs and tragedies of his existence to an illiterate factory worker.

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

📘 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

"A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war.

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

📘 The 13th valley

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 Hitler's war

A thrilling alternate history novel that takes the world in a different direction if Chamberlain had not signed the Munich Accord, changing the course of World War II and the world as we know it.

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

📘 The remaining

In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: Military Fiction

📘 The button war

Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable.

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

📘 The Great War

An anthology of stories inspired by objects from the First World War. It is a collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. Each object illuminates an aspect of life during the war, and each story reminds us of the millions of individual lives that were changed forever by the fighting.

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

📘 The Triumph of the Sun

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories

📘 Leigh Ann's Civil War

Leigh Ann Conners is spunky and determined. Although she often finds herself in trouble, she loves her two older brothers dearly and would do anything to make them proud. When the Yankees arrive in Roswell, Georgia, Leigh Ann places a French flag upon the family’s mill.

Genre: War & Military Fiction Subgenre: War Stories