war fiction

Book Reviews

Bao Ninh: The Sorrow of War*
- a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier
John Biggins: The Emperor's Coloured Coat
- the adventures of an Austrian naval lieutenant in 1912-1914
John Biggins: A Sailor of Austria
- the exploits of an Austro-Hungarian submarine commander
Tom Clancy: Clear and Present Danger
- for afficionados of military hardware; not my cup of tea
Hugo Claus: The Sorrow of Belgium**
- an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
Duong Thu Huong: Novel Without a Name
- a North Vietnamese soldier's story
C.S. Forester: The General
- a short novel of the British Army in the Great War
C.S. Forester: Horatio Hornblower*
- classic age-of-sail naval fiction
Bruce Fulton, Ju-Chan Fulton: The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea
- stories by Pak Wan-so, O Chong-hui and Im Ch'or-u
Alan Furst: The Spies of Warsaw
- a novel of espionage against Germany in 1937
Jean Giono: To the Slaughterhouse
- a Provençal village in the Great War
Henry Green: Caught*
- a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope*
- a novel of the Korean war
Ha Jin: War Trash
- the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
Ismail Kadare: The General of the Dead Army*
- on a macabre quest in Albania
Ismail Kadare: The Siege
- a novel about an Ottoman army attacking an Albanian fortress
Thomas Keneally: Gossip from the Forest
- a novel about the signing of the armistice that ended WWI
Imre Kertesz: Fatelessness
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
Christopher J. Koch: Highways to a War
- a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
Gert Ledig: The Stalin Organ**
- a novel of the Russian Front in the Second World War
Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
Harry Mulisch: The Assault*
- a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
Irène Némirovsky: Suite Française
- a novel of France in 1940-1941
Der Nister: Regrowth
Seven Tales of Jewish Life Before, During, and After Nazi Occupation
Patrick O'Brian: The Aubrey/Maturin books
- a naval lieutenant and a penniless physician meet at Port Mahon in 1801...
C. Northcote Parkinson: The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower; Devil to Pay
- a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
Borislav Pekic: How to Quiet a Vampire**
- a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
- the classic novel of the First World War
Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan*
- one of the classic novels of Partition
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: August 1914*
- a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
Dido Sotiriou: Farewell Anatolia
- a panoramic tale of the end of Greek Asia Minor
C.K. Stead: Talking About O'Dwyer
- fifty years to resolve a Maori curse from World War II
S. Yizhar: Khirbet Khizeh*
- evicting a Palestinian village in 1948
S. Yizhar: Midnight Convoy and Other Stories
- alfalfa, the 1948 war, and childhood inspiration
Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary