War Booklists

American Revolution
(1775-1783)

Try:
Jimmy Carter ~ The Hornets Nest
Ron Carter
James Fenimore Cooper ~ The Spy
Bernard Cornwell ~ Redcoat
Walter D. Edmonds ~ Drums Along the Mohawk
Howard Fast
Thomas Fleming ~ Dreams of Glory
Robert Graves ~ The Sergent Lamb Series
Dewey Lambdin
Patrick McGrath ~ Martha Peake
Robert Morgan ~ Brave Enemies
James L. Nelson ~ The Revolution at Sea Series
Jeff Shaara ~ The Glorious Cause / Rise to Rebellion
Karen Swee ~ Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Murder
Janet Tinney ~ Bunker Hill
M.D. Winston ~ Independent Action
Richard Woodman ~ The Nathaniel Drinkwater Series


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Napoleonic War
(1802-1815)

See Also The French Revolution

Try:

Bernard Cornwell ~ The Sharpe Series
R.F. Delderfield
Arthur Conan Doyle ~ The Brigadier Gerard Series
C.S. Forester ~ The Hornblower Series
Floyd Kemske ~ The Third Lion
Allan Mallinson ~ A Close Run Thing
Brian Moore ~ The Magician's Wife
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick Rambaud ~ The Battle
Jake Thoene ~ Heart of Allegiance
Leo Tolstoy ~ War and Peace
Barry Unsworth ~ Losing Nelson
Patricia Veryan ~ The Riddle Series
Jeanette Winterson ~ The Passion


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War of 1812
(1812-1814)

Try:
John S. Anderson ~ Marblehead Neck
Janice Doyle Collins ~ Beyond the Thunder of the Waters
Sara Donati ~ Fire along the Sky
C.S. Forester ~ The Captain from Connecticut
Robert H. Fowler ~ Voyage to Honor
Robert Jordan ~ The Fallon Pride
David Nevin ~ 1812
Patrick O'Brian ~ The Far Side of the World / The Fortune of War
Eugenia Price ~ Bright Captivity
Linda Rae Rao ~ Of Eagles and Ravens
John Richardson ~ The Canadian Brothers
Kenneth Lewis Roberts ~ The Arundel Series
Jake Thoene ~ Hands of Deliverance
William H. White ~ The War of 1812 Trilogy
Jon Williams ~ Macedonian


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Civil War
1861-1865

Try:
Howard Bahr
Russell Banks ~ Cloudsplitter
Bernard Cornwell ~ The Starbuck Chronicles
Harold Coyle
Stephen Crane ~ The Red Badge of Courage
Thomas Dyja ~ Play for a Kingdom
Shelby Foote ~ Shiloh
Charles Frazier ~ Cold Mountain
Robert Hicks ~ The Widow of the South
William Johnstone ~ Talons of Eagles
Mackinlay Kantor
Michael Kilian
Robert N. Macomber
Ann McMillan
Kirk Mitchell ~ Fredericksburg
David Poyer ~ That Anvil of our souls
James M. Reasoner
Jeff Shaara ~ Gods and Generals / Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure
William R. Trotter ~ The Sands of Pride
Stephen Wright ~ The Amalgamation Polka

Links:
The Civil War Book Review



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World War I
(1914-1918)

Try:
Pat Barker
Sebastian Barry ~ A Long, Long Way
John Biggins ~ Ottokar Prohaska Series
Vincente Ibanez Blasco ~ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Cindy Bonner ~ Right From Wrong
John Buchan ~ The Thirty-Nine Steps
Catherine Cookson ~ The Cinder Path
Annabel Davis-Goff ~ The Fox's Walk
Marc Dugain ~ The Officers' Ward
Sebastian Faulks ~ Birdsong
Timothy Findley ~ The Wars
C.S. Forester ~ The African Queen
Alexander Fullerton
Mark Helprin ~ A Soldier of Great War
Ernest Hemingway ~ A Farewell to Arms
John Hersey ~ A Bell for Adano
Frances Itani ~ Deafening
Judith Claire Mitchell ~ The Last Day of the War
Connie Monk ~ On the Wings of the Storm
Gilber Morris ~ The Flying Cavalier
Robert O'Connell ~ Fast Eddie
Heather Parkinson ~ Across Open Ground
Anne Perry ~ No Graves as Yet
Michael Phillips ~ Heathersleigh Homecoming / Wayward Winds
Belva Plain ~ The Golden Cup
Erich Maria Remarque ~ All Quiet on the Western Front
Siegfried Sassoon ~ Memoirs of George Sherston
Jeff Shaara ~ To the Last Man
Wilbur Smith ~ The Burning Shore
Charles Todd ~ A Test of Wills
Harry Turtledove ~ The Great War Series
Edith Wharton ~ A Son at the Front
Tom Willard ~ The Sable Doughboys


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World War II
(1939-1945)

See Also Pearl Harbor

Try:
Edward L. Beach
Ken Follett
Marianne Fredriksson ~ Hanna's Daughters / Simon's Family
Alan Furst
W.E.B. Griffin
Jack Higgins
Joseph Kanon
Thomas Keneally
Alistair MacLean
David L. Robbins
Angela Thirkell
Barrett Tillman
Evelyn Waugh
Herman Wouk


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Pearl Harbor

Try:
Steve Brown ~ Of Love and War
Warren Burke ~ A Time of Innocence
Daniel Houston ~ On a Blood Stained Sea
James Jones ~ The Pistol
Otohiko Kaga ~ Riding the East Wind
Martin Cruz Smith ~ December 6
Harry Turtledove ~ Days of Infamy
Randall Wallace ~ Pearl Harbor
Richard Ziegler ~ Red Sun


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Korean War
(1950-1953)

Try:
James Brady
Ben DeWitt ~ No Other Way
W.D. Ehrhart ~ Retrieving Bones
W.E.B. Griffin ~ Under Fire / Retreat, Hell
John Halkin ~ Hantu
John H. Harding ~ Shortchanged
James Richard Hickey ~ Chrysanthemum in the Snow
Rolando Hinojosa ~ The Useless Servants
Richard Hooker ~ MASH Series
Ahn Junghyo ~ Silver Stallion
Ward S. Just ~ A Family Trust
Chu-yong Kim ~ The Sound of Thunder
John McAleer ~ Unit Pride
James A. Michener ~ The Bridges at Toko Ri
Willie Morris ~ Taps
Ty Pak ~ Cry Korea Cry
Chaim Potok ~ I am the Clay
James Salter ~ The Hunters
Joanna Catherine Scott ~ The Lucky Gourd Shop
Edward Howard Simmons ~ Dog Company Six
William Styron ~ The Long March
Trooper ~ Korean Raider


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Vietnam War
(1965-1975)

Try:
Richard Aellen ~ The Crux
Mark Berent
Larry Brown ~ Dirty Work
Philip Caputo ~ Delcorso's Gallery / A Rumor of War
Stephen Coonts ~ The Jake Grafton Series
W.E.B. Griffin ~ The Berets / The Generals
Larry Heinemann ~ Close Quarters / Paco's Story
Stephen Hunter
Ward Just ~ A Dangerous Friend
Jim Kesey ~ What am I doing here?
Franklin Allen Lieb ~ The Fine Dream / Valley of the Shadow
Bobbie Ann Mason ~ In Country
Tim O'Brien ~ Going After Cacciato
Donald Pfarrer ~ The Fearless Man
H.Jay Riker ~ Seals:The Warrior Breed Series
Leonard B. Scott
Robert Stone ~ Dog Soldiers
Ralph Wetterhahn
Tom Willard ~ The Stone Ponies


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Gulf War
(1991)

Try:
James W. Blinn ~ The Aardvark is Ready for War
Patrick Sheane Duncan ~ Courage Under Fire
Frederick Forsyth ~ The Fist of God
Terrence D. Haynes ~ Desert Norm
G.Richard Holt ~ Rising Storm
Gabe Hudson ~ Dear Mr. President
Andrew Huebner ~ We Pierce
Harold Livingston ~ To Die in Babylon
John J. Nance ~ Scorpion Strike
Bob Newman ~ Trenches and Hard-Points
Tom Paine ~ The Pearl of Kuwait
R.J. Pineiro ~ Retribution
David Poyer ~ Black Storm
Charles Sheehan-Miles ~ Prayer at Rumayla
Michael Skinner ~ First Air
Grant Sutherland ~ The Consignment
Peggy Tibbetts ~ Rumors of War
Trooper ~ Nurse in Conflict
Tom Willard ~ Sword of Valor


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Air Force

Try:
Walter J. Boyne ~ The Eagles Series
Dale Brown
Miles Burford ~ Days of a Fledgling / Fledgling No More
Patrick A. Davis ~ The Colonel
Jim DeFelice ~ Coyote Bird
Laurie Graham ~ The Future Homemakers of America
Richard Herman
James Michener ~ The Bridges at Toko Ri
Michael Salazar
James Salter ~ Cassada / The Hunters
Tom Willard ~ Wings of Honor


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Marines

Try:
G.F. Borden ~ When the Poor Boys Dance
James Brady
Bill Frash ~ Hunter Hunted
W.E.B. Griffin ~ The Corps Series
Thomas Keneally ~ The Playmaker
John R. McCormick ~ The Right Kind of War
C.X. Moreau ~ Distant Valor
Anton Myrer ~ The Big War
Oliver North ~ Mission Compromised
Tom Paine ~ The Pearl of Kuwait
Edward Howard Simmons ~ Dog Company Six
Leon Uris ~ O'Hara's Choice
Penny Vincenzi ~ No Angel


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Navy
(Modern)

Click here for War at Sea (historical)

Try:
Ward Carroll ~ Punk's War / Punk's Wing
James H. Cobb
P.T. Deutermann ~ Darkside
Michael DiMecurio
John J. Gobbell
Dee Henderson ~ The Uncommon Heroes Series
Gordon Kent ~ Hostile Contact / Top Hook
Jim R. Lane
David E. Meadows
Douglas Reeman ~ Battlecruiser
Patrick Robinson


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Prisoners of War

Try:
Richard Aellen ~ Crux
Robert Bausch ~ On the Way Home
Tom Clancy ~ Without Remorse
James Clavell ~ King Rat
Wes Demott ~ The Walking K
Joanna Higgins ~ A Soldier's Book
Paulette Jiles ~ Enemy Women
John Katzenbach ~ Hart's War
Jim Lehrer ~ The Special Prisoners
Ian MacMillian ~ The Village of a Million Spirits
Ralph Peters ~ The Perfect Soldier
J.C. Pollack ~ Mission MIA
Kenneth Roberts ~ Captain Caution
Joseph Roth ~ Hotel Savoy
Steven D. Salinger ~ Behold the Fire
Joanna Scott ~ Charlie and the Children
Ralph Wetterhahn ~ The Shadowmakers
Michael C. White ~ A Brother's Blood


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SEALs

Try:
Jed L. Babbin ~ The Legacy of Valor
Suzanne Brockmann ~ Troubleshooter Series
Joe Buff ~ Deep Sound Channel
Phil Gothro ~ Dawn Strike
S.M. Gunn ~ SEALs Sub Rescue / SEALs Sub Strike
David Hagberg ~ By Dawn's Early Light
Bruce Kendall ~ Command and Control
Mike Murray
H. Jay Riker ~ The Seals the Warrior Breed Series
Larry Simmons ~ Broken Seals / Silent Option


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War at Sea

Try
David Donachie
C.S. Forester
Alexander Fullerton ~ The Everard Naval Series
Alexander Kent
Dewey Lambdin
William P. Mack
Robert N. Macomber
Frederick Marryat
Jan Needle ~ The Sea Officer William Bentley Series
James L. Nelson
Patrick O'Brian
C.Northcote Parkinson ~ The Richard Delancey Novels
Dudley Pope ~ The Ramage Series
David Poyer ~ That Anvil of our Souls
Douglas Reeman
Julian Stockwin Richard Woodman

Links:
Nautical Fiction
Sea Fiction

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