Beyond All Quiet on The Western Front:
Novels about War
You'll find these books in Berkeley Public Library's fiction collections. This bibliography lists copyright date (c) and number of pages in each book. Check the ONLINE CATALOG for availability.
World War I |
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Author |
Title |
| Barker, Pat | The Eye in the Door ( c1994) 280p. |
| Second in a trilogy featuring historical persons and events in novel form. | |
| Barker, Pat | The Ghost Road (c1996) 277 p. |
| Third in the trilogy about poets and World War I. | |
| Barker, Pat | Regeneration (c1992 ) 251p. |
| First in a trilogy featuring American poets at war. | |
| Forester, C. S. | The African Queen(c1935) 307p. |
| The effects of World War I on the African interior. | |
| Frank, Rudolf | No Hero For the Kaiser (c1986) 222p. |
| A Polish boy joins invading Germans and experiences the battlefield. | |
| Hemingway, Ernest | A Farewell to Arms (c1929) 332p. |
| Love and war in Italy. | |
| McCutchan, Philip | The New Lieutenant (c1997) 181p. |
| From an author who has written many novels about both World Wars as they were fought at sea. | |
| Powers, Richard | Three Farmers On Their Way to a Dance (c1985) 352p. |
| A nearly century-long saga begins as Germany engages the world in the Great War. | |
| Pritchard, Caradog | One Moonlit Night (c1997) 176p. |
| A boy grows quickly to manhood when the Welsh become engaged in Britain's war with Germany. | |
| Rostkowski, Margaret I | After the Dancing Days (c1986) 217p. |
| Wartime disfigurements last long after the battlefield. | |
| Saroyan, William | The Human Comedy (c1971) 192p |
| The war at home is experienced by a family whose oldest son writes from his battle stations. | |
| Sholokhov, Mikhail | And Quiet Flows the Don (c1934) 755p. |
| For Russia, participation in the Great War was transcended by the beginning of the Russian Revolution. | |
| Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr | August 1914 (c1972) 854p. |
| Russia's Great War experience by the Nobel winning novelist. | |
| Trumbo, Dalton | Johnny Got His Gun (c1969) 309p. |
| A haunting novel about a gravely wounded soldier who is conscious of all the body parts and functions he has lost. | |
| Willard, Tom | The Sable Doughboys (c1997) 319p. |
| African Americans fought in segregated units in World War I (and II). | |
World War II |
|
Author |
Title |
| Baklanov, Grigorii | Forever Nineteen (c1989) 168p. |
| A young Russian soldier defends his country. | |
| Buchheim, Lother Gunther | The Boat (c1975) 463p. |
| Life aboard a German submarine. | |
| Cormier, Robert | Heroes (c1998) 135p. |
| A small town's golden boy returns disfigured - but was wartime action the cause? | |
| Endo, Shusako | The Sea and Poison (c1980) 167p. |
| A Japanese soldier and an American prisoner of war are patients in a Japanese hospital. | |
| Forester, C. S. | The Good Shepherd (c1955) 310p. |
| One of the author's many tales of wartime at sea. | |
| Heller, Joseph | Catch-22 (c1955) 463p. |
| Wartime's absurdities as experienced by an American soldier. | |
| Leffland, Ella | Rumors of Peace (c1979) 389p. |
| Fears of Japanese invasion as experienced by a community in the Bay Area. | |
| Jones, James | From Here to Eternity (c1951) 861p. |
| Just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, life on a Hawaiian army base includes love affairs and friendships. | |
| Taylan, Justin | No Place for a Picnic (c1994) 207p. |
| American soldiers in the Pacific theater, told in graphic novel format. | |
| Undaatje, Michael | The English Patient (c1992) 307p. |
| Four survivors of wartime come together in an Italian villa. | |
| Wouk, Herman | The Caine Mutiny (c1951) 616p. |
| A mine sweeper in the Pacific is the setting for a mutiny and its aftermath. | |
Vietnam |
|
Author |
Title |
| Bao, Ninh | The Sorrow of War (c1995) 233p. |
| Carroll, Gerry | No Place to Hide (c1995) 419p. |
| American naval operations during the Vietnamese conflict. | |
| Carroll, Gerry | Ghostrider One (c1993) 439p |
| American naval operations during the Vietnamese conflict. | |
| Cosey | In Search of Shirley, volumes 1 and 2 (c1991) 47p. and 54p. |
| Two volume graphic novel recounts the adventures of old war buddies. | |
| Deutermann, Peter | The Edge of Honor (c1994) 456p. |
| American naval operations during the Vietnamese conflict. | |
| Duong, Thu Huong | Novel Without a Name (c1999) 292p. |
| The Vietnamese conflict, translated from the original Vietnamese. | |
| Hillerman, Tony | Finding Moon (c1995) 319p. |
| By the author of the popular mystery series, featuring Navajo people. | |
| Lee, Gus | Honor and Duty (c1993) 425p. |
| West Point prepares new officers during the early days of American involvement in Vietnam. | |
| Mason, Bobbie Ann | In Country (c1985) 247p. |
| The daughter of a soldier killed in the war tries to learn about him to his death. | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels (c1988) 309p. |
| A year of combat duty through the eyes of a Harlem teenager. | |
| O'Brien, Tim | Going After Cacciato (c1978) 301p. |
| Prize winning novel by a war veteran. | |
| White, Ellen Emerson | The Road Home (c1995) 469p. |
| A combat nurse must learn to cope on the battlefield and upon returning to the States. | |