Best 5 War books[2022]

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3 min readMar 31, 2022
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Without circling around about the right ones. here we have listed the best 5 let’s go:

All Quiet On The Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

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All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘Nothing New In the West’) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

Slaughterhouse-Five:

By Kurt Vonnegut

War

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

With the Old Breed

by E. B. Sledge

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“Eugene Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns the extremes of the war in the Pacific — the terror, the camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary — into terms we mortals can grasp.” — Tom Hanks

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Now a Hulu limited series starring Christopher Abbott, George Clooney, Kyle Chandler, and Hugh Laurie.

Guns Of August

by Barbara Tuchman

War

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’” — Newsweek

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

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