War Novels

Enjoyable, but it's more about friendship than about war, Catch 22 or Slaughterhouse 5 are pretty great imo

>>9065740
The Unknown Soldiers by Vainno Linna
Matterhorn
Storm of Steel and On the Marble Cliffs
Sharpe Novels
The Erl King
The Siege of Krishnapur
The Underdogs by Azuela
All You Need is Kill
The Black March
Life and Fate


On Killing, The Black Jacobins, and Shake Hands with the Devil are good non-fic that arent direct war histories.

> the german unit goes to a "brothel" in France
> it's literally just a house of regular French women whose men are dead or dying somewhere else
> everybody gets laid

war never changes

All of Remarque's novels are worth reading, I've always felt he's a bit overlooked

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>>9065814
France never changes

>>9065814
>when he had to spend the night in no mans land with the dying Frenchman who just won't die
Had to pause the chapter to be honest

>>9065828
i feel like alot of meaning is lost in translation tho

If you're looking for something similar to All Quiet, The Things They Carried might be good for you.

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This is the best war book i have ever read

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This is the best Vietnam war novel that i have read

>>9067433
Shouldn't it be "The Kind Ones"? Isn't kindly an adverb? What am I missing?>>9067468
Could a title be more cliché?
>>9065740
Iliad. Another kind of war and warrior, sure. Still, a great part of it is universal.

>>9067780
Read them
The Kindly Ones is an amazing book-just read it
Fields of fire is probably cliched but it is still a great book

The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer.

The things they carried by Tim O'Brien

Parade's End, The Good Soldier, The Middle Parts of Fortune

IN-parenthesis by david jones