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06-19-02, 03:37 AM
VivienneHa
"Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulkes ,brilliant novel set in France during WW1,one of the best novels i've ever read,I can't recommend it enough.Pat Barker's WWI Trilogy Regeneration,Eye in the Door and Ghost Road."All quiet on the Western Front" by Eric Maria Remarque.Two of the best books about WW1 are not novels but works of prose and they are "Goodbye to all That" by Robert Graves and "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" by Siegfried Sassoon.

06-19-02, 10:17 AM
FizzyChip
I really enjoyed "Catch 22" by Joseph Heller. I found it a bit of a struggle to get through, but once I'd finished I was awe struck.

VivienneHa's recommendations sound good too, I'm going to try and get hold of those now! smile

06-19-02, 01:11 PM

Ahoy - must pick Caine Mutiny, The Cruel Sea and Mister Roberts, but if I have to pick land based story, then probably Goodbye Darkness.

06-19-02, 01:49 PM
JerseyTomater
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute

06-20-02, 02:26 PM
coldfuse
A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

06-20-02, 02:32 PM
Kalena
the only war novel i have ever read was The Wars, and that was only because it was for my English class. However, i did enjoy the book, even though it was a little confusing and a little disturbing at times.

06-21-02, 04:54 PM
bedstor
3 of the best:
Colditz
Return to Colditz
The Wooden Horse cool

06-23-02, 01:38 PM
mahal
"A Farewell To Arms"--no contest. smile

06-23-02, 04:57 PM
newnickname
"Catch 22" and "Birdsong" have already been mentioned. How about; "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, "Parade's End" by Ford Madox Ford, "The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hasek and "If Not Now, When?" by Primo Levi. (Would "If This Is A Man" by Levi, about the Holocaust, count as a 'war novel'?).

06-23-02, 05:23 PM
Matiqua
I find that the trilogy by Kit Pearson (Guests of War Trilogy) is my favourite. Of course that may be because it's the only one I've read!

06-25-02, 06:17 PM
kittypal
Gone With the Wind!!!!

06-29-02, 03:15 PM
cattywampus
On the Beach was wonderful, but my absolute favorite is MRS. MINIVER. roll eyes roll eyes

07-22-02, 03:20 AM
hassia
i have 2,
all´s quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque
and just about anything from Heinrich Böll.

07-22-02, 11:02 AM
rubelline
I'm with hassia - "All Quiet On The Western Front" by Remarque. It's an excellent story about brotherhood in arms plus it's interesting to read about war from a German perspective. (And realize there isn't much difference.)

07-22-02, 02:32 PM
Koz
The Sorrow of War manages to convey not just the immediate horrors of war, but also the emotional damage it wreaks and the dislocation of lives it causes; it is one of the best war novels I have read.

07-22-02, 06:52 PM
juanruiz
Read "Sons." It deals with three generations in war: WWI, WWII, and Vietnam.

07-22-02, 10:06 PM
Ruthann
Night by Elie Weisel

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Or do the Holocust books count?

07-23-02, 12:48 AM
stanbee
"The Painted Bird" Kosinski, Jerzey.

War and the torturing of a child. Brutal. Easy read except emotionally.

07-23-02, 06:02 PM
christineell
Siegfried Sassoon' trilogy of his memoirs of World war One,starting with Memoirs of a Fox Hunting man and then Memoirs of an Infantry Officer,very harrowing.

07-24-02, 03:00 AM
hassia
What is your favourite war novel?
i remembered another:
"Draußen vor der Tür" or in english,
"the man outside" by Wolfgang Borchert

07-24-02, 04:14 AM
VivienneHa
I'm a huge admirer of Sassoon's,have you read Pat Barker's "Regeneration" which deals with Sassoon's time in Craiglockhart Hospital and his meeting there with Wilfred Owen? It's a great book. Robert Graves "Goodbye to all that",although later on they fell out,Graves book describes how he first met Sassoon in France and the great friendship that followed.Also the biography by Jean Moorcroft Wilson "Siegfried Sassoon Vol 1: The Making of a War Poet" covers with great detail his war years.
Viv.

07-24-02, 02:44 PM
christineell
Thanks Viv.I haven't read barker' book but will go to the library pronto!. Graves,yes,read his works.
Thanks for the info,
Chris.

08-14-02, 06:57 PM
dr.mlm
how about Red Badge of Courage...
I disliked What they Carried by Tim O'Brien, but others have loved it (Vietnam)

08-14-02, 11:07 PM
Johnny Velo
My favorite WW11 novel is "The Execution of Private Eddie Slovik". Shows how the govenment can really screw up. frown

08-28-02, 06:57 AM
chanceygardner
"The Blue Max"

09-01-02, 05:11 PM
Tree
I have to fully agree with
Jersey Tomater

"On the Beach" by Nevile Shute

Very realistic and eerie!

09-14-02, 01:45 AM
Abish
I would have to say that I agree with some of the people who already posted. My two favorite war novels are "A Farewell to Arms" (you can't beat Hemingway) and "Gone With the Wind"

09-16-02, 08:35 AM
dr.mlm
Red Badge of Courage -- without a doubt --
Also, an interesting twist -- War and Wine by Don and Petie Kladstrup regarding how the French protected their vines and the best vintages (some of them) from the Germans during WWII.

09-16-02, 03:11 PM
Di
"House Divided" by Ben Ames Williams. It covers the Civil War between the North and South. A lot of detail and historical information. Truly gripping. It was written in 1947 so very probably out of print but you might check with your local library.

09-27-02, 06:15 PM
Prothero
Though I favor tales of the sea, I just recalled a book of combat, with humor - Chickenhawk - excellent work.

09-27-02, 07:26 PM
Kelleygirl
How about two Russian
classics----

"Dr. Zhivago"
&
"War and Peace"

11-03-02, 09:31 PM
Leppi
the yougest partisan, it's about a teenager who joins the partisan's fighting against the nazi's.
-yafa

11-20-02, 07:05 PM
simply, me
ANYTHING but Johnny Tremain!! So far I'm reading a book called Stones in Water, so far it's about 4 boys getting kidnapped and forced to work for the army. Sorry I can't provide the author!!

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