Lincoln City Libraries - War Stories: A Selection of War Fiction

Interested in adventures set during the Trojan War? Want a good novel set during the Crimean War? Do you thrill to the military adventures of soldiers, sailors and fighter pilots from any or all war-time eras? Then perhaps you'll be interested in this extensive list of "War Stories" fiction, set from 1200 B.C. through the 2000s. The majority of the novels, short story collections or anthologies on this list focus on war-time stories involving military personnel (a.k.a. "military fiction"), with a few pure "adventure" novels thrown in. We have not included mystery novels with war-time settings in this list.

The library owns literally thousands of novels of war-time action, set during nearly every war known to man. This list merely scratches the surface...identifying some popular "War Stories" that have stood the test of time, as well as more recent fare from within the past 20 years or so. Most of the following novels are "stand alones", while many are entries in on-going series. We've included a few titles in this list which are not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries, just to highlight some classics that may have gone out-of-print. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department. To see lists of additional titles, do a Subject Search in our online catalog, using the name of the war followed by "-- Fiction" (i.e. "Napoleonic Wars -- Fiction" ). This is especially true in the categories of World War I, World War II and Vietnam War fiction.

War Stories

Use the following index links to jump straight to a particular section of this list:

The Trojan War [circa 1200 B.C.]	The Russian Revolution [1917-1921]
The Crusades [1096-late 1200s]	The Spanish Civil War [1936-1939]
The Hundred Years War [1339-1453]	World War II [1939-1945]
The Seven Years War [1756-1763]	The Korean War [1950-1953]
The American Revolutionary War [1775-1783]	The Cold War [1950s to the 1980s]
The Napoleonic Wars [1800-1815]	The Vietnamese Conflict [1961-1975]
The War of 1812 [1812-1815]	The Persian Gulf War [1991]
The Crimean War [1853-1856]	The Yugoslav War [1991-1995]
The American Civil War [1861-1865]	The Iraq War [2003]
The Franco-Prussian War [1870-1871]	World War III [near future military/technothrillers]
The Spanish-American War [1898]	War in Science Fiction settings
The Anglo-Boer War [1899-1902]	General Works involving War
World War I [1914-1918]

The Trojan War [circa 1200 B.C.]

Charles Rowan Beye	Odysseus: A Life [2004]
Marion Zimmer Bradley	The Firebrand [1987]
Linda Cargill	To Follow the Goddess [1991]
Sarah B. Franklin	Daughter of Troy: A Novel of History, Valor and Love [1998]
Mark Merlis	An Arrow's Flight [1998]
Phillip Parotti	The Greek Generals Talk [1986] The Trojan Generals Talk: A Memoir of the Greek War [1988]
Barry Unsworth	The Songs of the Kings [2003]
Virgil	The Aeneid [uncertain]

The Crusades [1096-late 1200s]

Gillian Bradshaw	The Wolf Hunt [2001]
Linda Chaikin	Swords and Scimitars [1993]
Evan S. Connell	Deus lo Volt! A Chronicle of the Crusades [2000]
Umberto Eco	Baudolino [2002]
Michael Alexander Eisner	The Crusader [2001]
Cecilia Holland	Jerusalem [1996]
Stephen R. Lawhead	The Iron Lance [1998]
James Patterson & Andrew Gross	The Jester [2003]
Stephen J. Rivelle	A Booke of Days: A Novel of the Crusades [1996]
Robert Shea	The Saracen: Land of the Infidel [1989]
Susan Shwartz	Cross and Crescent [1997]
Judith Tarr	The Dagger and the Cross [1991] Pride of Kings [2001]
Leslie Turner White	The Winged Sword [1955]
Frank Yerby	The Saracen Blade [1952]

The 100 Years War [1339-1453]

Bernard Cornwell	The Archer's Tale [2001] Heretic [2003] Vagabond [2002]
Arthur Conan Doyle	The White Company [1891]
Hella Haasse	In a Dark Wood Wandering [1989 translation]

The Seven Years War [1756-1763]

James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans [1826] The Pathfinder [1839]
Harold Coyle	Savage Wilderness [1987]
Robert Moss	The Firekeeper [1995]
Beverly Swerling	Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War and the Birth of America [2004]

American Revolutionary War [1775-1783]

Harriette Simpson Arnow	The Kentucky Trace [1978]
Johnny D. Boggs	The Despoilers [2002]
James Boyd	Drums [1928]
Christian Cameron	Washington and Caesar [2004]
Jimmy Carter	The Hornet's Nest [2003]
Ron Carter	Our Sacred Honor [1998]
Winston Churchill	Richard Carvel [1914]
James Fenimore Cooper	Red Rover [unknown]
Bernard Cornwell	Redcoat [1987]
Walter D. Edmonds	Drums Along the Mohawk [1936]
Earl Faine	Green Mountain Man: The Odyssey of Ethan Allen [1997]
Howard Fast	April Morning [1961] The Hessian [1972] Seven Days in June [1994] The Unvanquished [1942]
Thomas J. Fleming	Dreams of Glory [1983] Liberty Tavern [1976]
Inglis Fletcher	Toil of the Brave [1978]
Esther Forbes	Johnny Tremain [1943]
Robert H. Fowler	Jeremiah Martin [1989]
Janice Holt Giles	The Kentuckians [unknown]
Harvey Haislip	Sea Road to Yorktown [1960]
MacKinlay Kantor	Valley Forge [1975]
Alexander Kent	The "Richard Bolitho" series [1975-present]
Katherine Kurtz	Two Crowns for America [1996]
Dewey Lambdin	The King's Coat [1989]
Bruce Lancaster	Blind Journey [1953]
William Martin	Citizen Washington [1999]
Van Wyck Mason	Guns for Rebellion [1977]
Patrick McGrath	Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution [2000]
Stephen Molstad	The Patriot (based on the screenplay by Robert Rodat) [2000]
Kenneth Roberts	Arundel [1933]
Jeff Shaara	The Glorious Cause [2002] Rise to Rebellion [2001]
Edouard Stackpole	Nantucket Rebel [1963]
Beverly Swerling	City of Dreams [2001]
David Taylor	Lights Across the Delaware [1954]
James Alexander Thom	Long Knife [1976]
Agnes Sligh Turnbull	The Day Must Dawn [1942]

Napoleonic Wars [1800-1815]

Bernard Cornwell	The "Sharpe" series
C.S. Forester	The "Horatio Hornblower" series
Alexander Kent	The "Richard Bolitho" series
Dewey Lambdin	The "Alan Lewrie" series
Patrick O'Brian	The "Aubrey-Maturin" series
Dudley Pope	The "Ramage" series
Patrick Rambaud	The Battle [1997]
Rafael Sabatini	The Snare [1917]
Robert Louis Stevenson	St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England [1897]
William Makepeace Thackery	Vanity Fair [1890s]
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace [unknown]
Barry Unsworth	Losing Nelson [1999]
Richard Woodman	The "Nathaniel Drinkwater" series
Jay Worrall	Sails on the Horizon [2005]

The War of 1812 [1812-1815]

Eric Flint	The Rivers of War [2005]
Robert H. Fowler	Voyage to Honor [1996]
Robert Jordan	The Fallon Pride [1981]
Willard Mosher Wallace	Jonathan Dearborn [1967]

Crimean War [1853-1856]

Beryl Bainbridge	Master Georgie [1998]
Emma Drummond	Forget the Glory [1985]
George MacDonald Fraser	Flashman at the Charge [1973]
Catherine Gavin	The Fortress [1964]
Gilbert Morris	God's Handmaiden [2004]
Douglas Reeman	Badge of Glory [1982]
Ivan Turgenev	On the Eve [1859]

American Civil War [1861-1865]

Richard George Adams	Traveller [1988]
Chris Adrian	Gob's Grief [2000]
Howard Bahr	The Year of Jubilo [2000]
Kevin Baker	Paradise Alley [2002]
Allen B. Ballard	Where I'm Bound [2000]
John Calvin Batchelor	American Falls [1985]
Fred Bean	Lorena [1996]
Ambrose Bierce	Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories [1891]
James Carlos Blake	Wildwood Boys [2000]
Geraldine Brooks	March [2005]
Dee Brown	Conspiracy of Knaves [1986]
Frederick Busch	The Night Inspector [1999]
Max Byrd	Grant [2000]
Winston Churchill	The Crisis [1901]
Bernard Cornwell	The "Starbuck Chronicles" series
Harold Coyle	Look Away [1995] Until the End [1996]
Stephen Crane	The Red Badge of Courage [unknown]
Barbara Croft	Moon's Crossing [2003]
Jack Cummings	Rebels West! [1987]
Jack Dann	The Silent [1998]
Tom Dyja	Play for a Kingdom [1997]
Berry Fleming	The Affair at Honey Hill [1981]
Thomas J. Fleming	When This Cruel War is Over [2001]
Shelby Foote	Shiloh [1952]
William R. Forstchen	We Look Like Men of War [2001]
Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain [1997]
Kaye Gibbons	On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon [1998]
Newt Gingrich	Grant Comes East [2004] Never Call Retreat [2005]
Caroline Gordon	None Shall Look Back [1937]
Allen Gurganus	The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All [1989]
Nora Hague	Letters From an Age of Reason [2001]
Harry Harrison	The Stars and Stripes Forever [1998]
Josephine Humphreys	Nowhere Else on Earth [2000]
John Jakes	North and South [1982] On Secret Service [2000] Savannah [2004]
Paulette Jiles	Enemy Women [2002]
William W. Johnstone	Talons of Eagles [1995]
Ted Jones	Hard Road to Gettysburg [1993]
MacKinlay Kantor	Andersonville [1955] If the South Had Won the Civil War [2001] Long Remember [1934]
Thomas Keneally	Confederates [1980]
Benjamin King	A Bullet for Lincoln [1993] A Bullet for Stonewall [1990]
Al Lacy	The "Battles of Destiny" series
Jim Lehrer	No Certain Rest [2002]
Jeffrey Lent	In the Fall [2000]
David Madden	Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War [1996]
Van Wyck Mason	Armored Giants [1980]
Donald McCaig	Jacob's Ladder: A Novel of Virginia During the War [1998]
Kevin McColley	The Other Side [2000]
Sharyn McCrumb	Ghost Riders [2003]
Howard Means	Confederate States of America [1998]
Margaret Mitchell	Gone With the Wind [1936]
Gilbert Morris	The "Appomattox Saga"
Robert J. Mrazek	Unholy Fire [2003]
P.G. Nagle	Galveston [2002]
Owen Parry	A Faded Coat of Blue [1999]
Richard Parry	That Fateful Lightning [2000]
David Poyer	A Country of Our Own [2003] Fire on the Waters [2001]
James Reasoner	The "Civil War Battles" series
John Reed	A Small Still Voice [2000]
Marie R. Reno	When the Music Changed [1980]
Douglas Savage	The Courtmartial of Robert E. Lee [1993]
Jeff Shaara	Gods and Generals [1996] The Last Full Measure [1998]
Michael Shaara	The Killer Angels [1974]
James Sherburne	The Way to Fort Pillow [1972]
Robert Skimin	Ulysses: A Biographical Novel of U.S. Grant [1994]
Joseph Skvorecky	The Bride of Texas [1992]
Frank Slaughter	In a Dark Garden [1946] Storm Haven [1954]
James Howell Street	Captain Little Ax [1956]
Elswyth Thane	Yankee Stranger [1944]
William R. Trotter	The Sands of Pride [2002]
Harry S. Turtledove	The Guns of the South [1992]
Bert Underwood	The Privilege of Darkness [1985]
Robert Penn Warren	Wilderness [1961]
Richard S. Wheeler	The Exile [2003]
Tom Wicker	Unto This Hour [1984]
Ben Ames Williams	House Divided [1947]
Connie Willis	Lincoln's Dreams [1987]
Frank Yerby	McKenzie's Hundred [1985]
James D. Yoder	Sarah of the Border Wars [1993]
Marly Youmans	The Wolf Pit [2001]

Franco-Prussian War [1870-1871]

Emile Zola

The Debacle [unknown]

Spanish-American War [1898]

Douglas C. Jones	Remember Santiago [1988]
Elmore Leonard	Cuba Libre [1998]

Anglo-Boer War [1899-1902]

John Kenny Crane	The Legacy of Ladysmith [1986]
Emma Drummond	A Distant Hero [1997]
Giles Foden	Ladysmith [2000]
Philip McCutchan	Halfhyde Goes to War [1986]
Christopher Nicole	The Regiment [1988]
Joanna Trollope	The Steps of the Sun [1983]

World War I [1914-1918]

The Lincoln City Libraries own more than 190 novels or short story collections set during the era of World War I, of which the following are a representative sampling. To see more, search in our on-line catalog under the Subject heading -- "World War -- 1914-1918 -- Fiction" or its various subheadings.

Patricia Anthony	Flanders [1998]
Pat Barker	Regeneration [1991]
John Biggins	The Emperor's Coloured Coat [1992]
Martin Booth	Islands of Silence [2003]
William Boyd	An Ice-Cream War [1983]
Gloria Broder	Remember This Time [1983]
John Buchan	Greenmantle [1916] The Thirty-Nine Steps [1915]
David Butler	Lusitania [1982]
Taylor Caldwell	The Balance Wheel [1951]
James Carroll	Supply of Heroes [1986]
Willa Cather	One of Ours [unknown]
Linda Chaikin	Arabian Winds [1997]
e.e. cummings	The Enormous Room [1922]
Elizabeth Darrell	At the Going Down of the Sun [1984]
Louis DeBernieres	Birds Without Wings [2004]
John Dos Passos	Chosen Country [1951] Three Soldiers [1921]
Clive Egleton	A Falcon for the Hawks [1982]
Carol Emshwiller	Leaping Man Hill [1999]
Louise Erdrich	The Master Butcher's Singing Club [2003]
William Fairchild	No Man's Land [1988]
William Faulkner	A Fable [1954]
Sebastian Faulks	Birdsong [1993]
Timothy Findley	The Wars [1977]
Thomas Flanagan	The End of the Hunt [1994]
Thomas J. Fleming	Over There [1992]
Ken Follett	The Man From St. Petersburg [1982]
Ford Madox Ford	The Good Soldier [1915] No Enemy [1929]
John Galsworthy	The Burning Spear [1923]
Ernest K. Gann	In the Company of Eagles [1966]
Mark Goodman	Hurrah For the Next Man Who Dies [1985]
Jaroslav Hasek	The Good Soldier: Schweik (Svejk) [1930]
Michael Hastings	The Devil's Spy [1988]
Mark Helprin	A Soldier of the Great War [1991]
Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms [1929]
Max Hennessy	The Bright Blue Sky [1983]
Jonathan Hull	Losing Julia [2000]
Evan Hunter	Sons [1969]
Frances Itani	Deafening [2003]
Donald Jack	The "Bandy Papers" series
Sebastian Japrisot	A Very Long Engagement [1991]
Guy Johnson	Standing at the Scratch Line [1998]
Malcolm Macdonald	His Father's Son [1989]
Joe Maggio	Company Man [1972]
Van Wyck Mason	American Men at Arms [1964]
John Masters	Now, God Be Thanked [1979]
W. Somerset Maugham	Ashenden; or The British Agent [1941]
Liam O'Flaherty	Return of the Brute [1998]
William Patrick	Blood Winter [1990]
Anne Perry	No Graves as Yet [2003] Shoulder the Sky [2004]
Robert H. Pilpel	To the Honor of the Fleet [1979]
Peter Pouncey	Rules For Old Men Waiting [2005]
Piers Paul Reid	Alice in Exile [2001]
Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front [1928]
Derek Robinson	War Story [1988]
Kate Saunders	Night Shall Overtake Us [1994]
Jeff Shaara	To the Last Man [2004]
C.L. Skelton	Beloved Soldiers [1984]
Helen Zenna Smith	Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War [1930]
Wilbur Smith	The Burning Shore [1985]
Alexander Solzhenitsyn	August 1914 [1971]
William Stanley	Bomber Patrol [1973]
Dalton Trumbo	Johnny Got His Gun [1939]
Jane Urquhart	The Stone Carvers [2002]
Edith Wharton	A Son at the Front [1923]
Tom Willard	The Sable Doughboys [1997]
Jonathan Wilson	A Palestine Affair [2003]
Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs [2003]
Donald Zochert	Yellow Dogs [1989]
Arnold Zweig	The Case of Sergeant Grischa [1927]

All Quiet on the Western Front book cover

Russian Revolution [1917-1921]

Nathasha Borovsky	A Daughter of the Nobility [1985]
Elizabeth Darrell	The Gathering Wolves [1980]
Carol J. Kane	Blood and Sable [1988]
Arthur Koestler	Darkness at Noon [1941]
Robert Littell	The Revolutionist [1988]
Boris Pasternak	Dr. Zhivago [1958]
Ayn Rand	We the Living [1936]
Victor Serge	Midnight in the Century [1981]
Mikhail Alexsandrovch Sholokhov	Quiet Flows the Don [1996]
R.T. Stevens	The Summer Day is Done [1976]

Spanish Civil War [1936-1939]

Jose Maria Gironella	The Cypresses Believe in God [1955]
Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls [1940]
Stephen Hunter	Tapestry of Spies [1985]
Andre Malraux	Man's Hope [1938]
Bruce Palmer	They Shall Not Pass [1971]
Milton Wolff	Another Hill [1994]

World War II [1939-1945]

The Lincoln City Libraries own more than 700 novels or short story collections set during the era of World War II, of which the following are a representative sampling. To see more, search in our on-line catalog under the Subject heading -- "World War -- 1939-1945 -- Fiction" or its various subheadings.

Maynard Allington	The Fox in the Field: A World War II novel in India [1994]
John Altman	A Gathering of Spies [2000]
Elliott Arnold	Proving Ground [1973]
Sholem Asch	Tales of My People [1948]
J.G. Ballard	Empire of the Sun [1984]
Giorgio Bassani	The Garden of the Finzi Continis [1977]
Edward L. Beach	Cold is the Sea [1978] Run Silent, Run Deep [1953]
George Bernau	Black Phoenix [1994]
Heinrich Boll	Absent Without Leave [1965] A Soldier's Legacy [1985]
Jenna Blum	Those Who Save Us [2004]
Tadeusz Borowski	This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen [1967]
Pierra Boulle	The Bridge Over the River Kwai [1954]
Walter J. Boyne	Eagles At War [1991]
James Brady	Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines [2002]
Harry Peter M'Nab Brown	A Walk in the Sun [1970]
L. Buchheim	The Boat (Das Boot) [1975]
Bartle Bull	A Cafe on the Nile [1998]
Italo Calvino	The Path to the Spiders' Nests [1947]
Agatha Christie	N or M? [1941]
Tom Clancy	The Cardinal of the Kremlin [1988]
James Clavell	King Rat [1962]
Jon Cleary	A Very Private War [1980]
Larry Collins	Fall From Grace [1985]
Max Allan Collins	Windtalkers [2001] [movie novelization]
James Gould Cozzens	Guard of Honor [1948]
John Creasey	Dangerous Journey [1974]
Robert Crichton	The Secret of Santa Vittoria [1966]
Robert Daley	The Innocents Within [1999]
Jan De Hartog	The Trail of the Serpent [1983]
Len Deighton	Goodbye Mickey Mouse [1982] SS-GB [1979]
Robert Denny	Night Run [1992]
William Diehl	27 [1990]
John Dunning	Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime [2001]
Clive Egleton	The Bormann Brief [1974]
Leslie Epstein	King of the Jews [1979]
J.G. Farrell	The Singapore Grip [1979]
Thomas J. Fleming	Loyalties [1994]
Ken Follett	The Eye of the Needle [1978] Hornet Flight [2002] Jackdaws [2001] Triple [1979]
Colin Forbes	The Leader and the Damned [1984]
Frederick Forsyth	The Odessa File [1972]
David Fraser	The Blitz [1979] Fortunes of War [1985]
George MacDonald Fraser	The General Danced at Dawn [1970]
Ladislav Fuks	The Cremator [1984]
Alan Furst	Dark Voyage [2004] The Polish Officer [1995]
Sarah Gainham	Night Falls on the City [1967] To the Opera Ball [1975]
Paul Gallico	The Snow Goose [1940]
Thomas Gifford	The Man From Lisbon [1977]
J.D. Gilman & John Clive	KG 200 [1977]
John J. Gobbell	The Last Lieutenant [1995]
Gerald Green	Holocaust [1978]
Roger Grenier	Another November = Le Pierrot Noir [1998]
W.E.B. Griffin	Battleground [1991] and many, many more!
Robert Harris	Enigma [1995]
John Hawkesworth	Danger UXB [1978] TV miniseries available on DVD
Thomas Heggen	Mister Roberts [1946]
Joseph Heller	Catch-22 [1955]
John Hersey	The War Lover [1959]
Jack Higgins	Cold Harbour [1990] The Eagle Has Flown [1991] The Eagle Has Landed [1975] Night of the Fox [1987]
Reginald Hill	The Collaborators [1989]
Yoel Hoffmann	Bernhard [1998]
Harry Homewood	O God of Battles [1983]
John Hooker	The Bush Soldiers [1984]
Richard Hough	Wings Against the Sky [1979]
Jack D. Hunter	The Blood Order [1979] The Potsdam Bluff [1991]
Masuye Ibuse	Black Rain [1969]
Greg Iles	Black Cross [1995]
Stuart Jackman	A Game of Soldiers [1981]
Robert Jackson	Hurricane Squadron [1984]
Haynes Johnson	The Landing [1986]
James Jones	From Here to Eternity [1951] The Thin Red Line [1962] Whistle [1978]
Tristan Jones	Dutch Treat [1978]
Joseph Kanon	The Good German [2001]
Thomas Keneally	Schindler's List [1982]
Hans Hellmut Kirst	Forward, Gunner Asch! [1956] Last Stop Camp 7 [1969] The Nights of the Long Knives [1976]
Jerzy Kosinksi	The Painted Bird [1965]
Agota Kristof	The Notebook [1988]
W.S. Kuniczak	The March [1979] The Thousand Hour Day [1966]
Anatolii Kuznetsov	Babi Yar [1967]
Derek Lambert	The Golden Express [1984] The Judas Code [1984]
David Leavitt	While England Sleeps [1993]
Primo Levi	If Not Now, When? [1985]
Richard Llewellyn	None But the Lonely Heart [1943]
Robert Ludlum	The Rhinemann Exchange [1974]
Arnost Lustig	A Prayer for Katerina Horovitzova [1973]
Alistair MacLean	The Guns of Navarone [1957] Where Eagles Dare [1967]
Norman Mailer	The Naked and the Dead [1948]
Andre Malraux	The Walnut Trees of Altenburg [1989]
Olivia Manning	The Balkan Trilogy The Levant Trilogy
Stephen Marlowe	The Valkyrie Encounter [1978]
Margaret Mayhew	Our Yanks [2001]
Philip McCutchan	The "Cameron" series The "Halfhyde" series
William P. McGivern	Soldiers of '44 [1979]
Milena McGraw	After Dunkirk [1998]
Ib Melchior	Eva [1984]
Charles E. Mercer	Pacific [1981]
James Michener	Tales of the South Pacific [1947]
Nicholas Monsarrat	The Cruel Sea [1951]
Elsa Morante	History [1977]
Walter F. Murphy	The Roman Enigma [1981]
Anton Myrer	Once an Eagle [1958]
E.M. Nathanson	The Dirty Dozen [1965]
Richard L. Newhafer	The Last Tallyho [1964]
Frederick W. Nolan	Wolf Trap [1983]
Janos Nyiri	Battlefields and Playgrounds [1995]
Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient [1992]
Julie Otsuka	When the Emperor Was Divine [2002]
Donn Pearce	Nobody Comes Back: A Novel of the Battle of the Bulge [2005]
Theodor Plievier	Stalingrad [1948]
J.C. Pollock	Goering's List [1993]
Dudley Pope	Decoy [1985]
Anthony Powell	A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement [1968]
Tim Powers	Declare [2001]
Bill Pronzini, ed.	A Treasury of World War II Stories [1985] [813.08 Tre]
Thomas Pynchon	Gravity's Rainbow [1973]
James Reasoner	Battle Lines: The Last Good War [2001]
Douglas Reeman	His Majesty's U-Boat [1973] Torpedo Run [1981]
Christopher Reich	The Runner [2000]
Erich Maria Remarque	Arch of Triumph [1945]
David L. Robbins	The End of War: A Novel of the Race for Berlin [2000] Liberation Road: A Novel of World War II and the Redball Express [2005]
Anatoli Rybakov	The "Children of Arbat" trilogy
Robert St. John	The Man Who Played God [1962]
Ferrol Sams	When All the World Was Young [1991]
Thomas Sanchez	Day of the Bees [2000]
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer	Anya [1974]
Chris Scott	Hitler's Bomb [1985]
Douglas Scott	Eagle's Blood [1985]
Henry Searls	Kataki [1987]
Steve Shagan	The Formula [1979]
Irwin Shaw	The Young Lions [1982]
Stephen Sheppard	Monte Carlo [1983]
Daniel Silva	The Unlikely Spy [1996]
Claude Simon	The Flanders Road [1985]
Robert Skimin	Renegade Lightning [1992]
Ian Slater	MacArthur Must Die [1994]
David R. Slavitt	Ringer [1982]
Martin Cruz Smith	December 6 [2002] Stallion Gate [1986]
Wilbur Smith	Power of the Sword [1986]
James Spencer	The Pilots [2003]
Dorothy Stroup	In the Autumn Wind [1987]
J.N. Stroyar	The Children's War [2001]
Janet Tanner	Women at War [1987]
Andrew Taylor	Second Midnight [1987]
Fred Taylor	Walking Shadows [1984]
Lawrence Thornton	Under the Gypsy Moon [1990]
Hendrik Tikkanen	The 30 Years' War [1987]
Barrett Tillman	Hellcats: A Novel of War in the Pacific [1996]
John Toland	Gods of War [1985]
William R. Trotter	Winter Fire [1993]
Patrick Turnbull	The Claws of the Gryphon [1986]
Leon Uris	Battle Cry [1953] Exodus [1958] QB VII [1970]
Laurens Vanderpost	The Seed and the Sower (a.k.a. "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence") [1963]
Philippe Vanrjndt	Last Message to Berlin [1984] The Trial of Adolph Hitler [1978]
Nina Vida	Return From Darkness [1986]
Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse Five; or The Children's Crusade [1969]
Tom Wakefield	War Paint [1993]
Ken Wales	Sea of Glory: A Novel [2001]
Irving Wallace	The Seventh Secret [1985]
Randall Wallace	Pearl Harbor [2001] [movie novelization]
Paul Watkins	Night Over Day Over Night [1988]
Evelyn Waugh	Men at Arms [1952]
Mary Wesley	The Camomile Lawn [1984]
David Westheimer	Lighter Than a Feather [1972] Song of the Young Sentry [1968] Von Ryan's Express [1964]
Jeane Eddy Westin	Love and Glory [1985]
Theodore H. White	The Mountain Road [1958]
Elie Wiesel	Dawn [1985] The Oath [1973]
Richard Wiley	Soldiers in Hiding [1986]
F. Paul Wilson	Black Wind [1988]
Robert Wilson	The Company of Strangers [2001]
Walter Winward	Hammerstrike [1979] 7 Minutes Past Midnight [1980]
Herman Wouk	The Caine Mutiny [1979] The Winds of War [1971] War and Remembrance [1971]

Korean War [1950-1953]

Junghyo Ahn	Silver Stallion [1990]
Larry Bond	Red Phoenix [1996]
James Brady	The Marines of Autumn [2000]
C.D.B. Bryan	P.S. Wilkinson [1965]
Frederick Busch	War Babies [1989]
John Campbell	Raid on Truman [1991]
Pat Frank	Hold Back the Night [1952]
Dorothy Gilman	Incident at Badamya [1990]
W.E.B. Griffin	The Captains [1983] Under Fire [2002]
James Hickey	Chrysanthemum in the Snow [1990]
John Hooker	Standing Orders [1987]
Richard Hooker	MASH* [1968]
Ha Jin	War Trash [2004]
James Michener	The Bridges at Toko-Ri [1953]
Willie Morris	Taps [2001]
Joe Porcelli	The Photograph [1995]
Chaim Potok	I Am the Clay [1992]
Ed Ruggero	38 North Yankee [1990]
Edwin H. Simmons	Dog Company Six [2000]
Mark Spragg	An Unfinished Life [2004]

Cold War [1950s to the 1980s]

William F. Buckley	The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joseph McCarthy [1999]
Eugene Burdick	Fail-Safe [1962]
James Carroll	Secret Father [2003]
Tom Clancy	The Hunt for Red October [1984]
Richard Condon	The Manchurian Candidate [1959]
John Crowley	The Translator [2002]
Len Deighton	The "Harry Palmer" series
Clive Egleton	In the Red [1990]
Adam Hall	The "Quiller" series
Michael Hetzer	The Forbidden Zone [1999]
Noel Hynd	Truman's Spy [1990]
Jack Higgins	Year of the Tiger [1996]
James Leasor	Passport to Oblivion [1965]
John LeCarre	The Secret Pilgrim [1990]
Roderick MacLeish	Crossing at Ivalo [1990]
Ian McEwan	The Innocent [1990]
Tim Powers	Declare [2001]
H. Jay Riker	The Silent Service: Grayback Class [2000]
S.K. Wolf	The Harbinger Effect [1989]

Vietnamese Conflict [1961-1975]

The Lincoln City Libraries own more than 220 novels or short story collections set during the era of the Vietnam War, of which the following are a representative sampling. To see more, search in our on-line catalog under the Subject heading -- "Vietnamese Conflict -- 1961-1975 -- Fiction" or its various subheadings.

James Amos	The Memorial [1989]
Kent Anderson	Sympathy For the Devil [1987]
Kenneth Waymon Baker	Alone in the Valley [1992]
Vivian Vie Balfour [ed.]	The Perimeter of Light: Short Fiction and Other Writing About the Vietnam War [813.08 Bal] [1992]
Mark Berent	Rolling Thunder [1989]
Donald Bodey	F.N.G. [1985]
Martyn Burke	Laughing War [1980]
Robert Olen Butler	A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain: Stories [2001]
Tom Campbell	The Old Man's Trail [1995]
Gerry Carroll	North SAR: A Novel of Navy Combat Pilots in Vietnam [1991]
Tom Clancy	Without Remorse [1993]
Stephen Coonts	Flight of the Intruder [1986] The Intruders [1993]
William Crapser	Remains [1988]
John M. Delvecchio	The 13th Valley [1982]
Nelson Demille	Up Country [2002] Word of Honor [1985]
P.T. Deuterman	The Edge of Honor [1994]
Ed Dodge	Dau [1984]
Thu Huong Duong	Novel Without a Name [1995]
Dale Dye	Platoon (based on the screen play by Oliver Stone) [1986] [movie novelization]
Joseph Ferradino	Firefight [1987]
Donald A Gazzaniga	A Few Good Men [1989]
Allan Glick	Winters Coming, Winters Gone [1984]
Beverly Gologorsky	The Things We Do to Make It Home [1999]
Zalin Grant	Over the Beach [1986]
W.E.B. Griffin	The Aviators [1989] The Berets [1995] and many, many more...
David Grinstead	Promises of Freedom [1991]
Winston Groom	Better Times Than These [1978]
David H. Hackworth	The Price of Honor [1999]
David Halberstam	One Very Hot Day [1968]
Joe Haldeman	1968 [1995]
Gustav Hasford	The Phantom Blooper [1990]
Larry Heinemann	Paco's Story [1986]
G.C. Hendricks	The Second War [1990]
John Irving	A Prayer for Owen Meany [1989]
John Jacob	Long Ride Back [1988]
Philip Jennings	Nam-a-Rama [2005]
Wayne Karlin, ed. [813.01 Kar]	Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans [1973]
Stephen King	Hearts in Atlantis [1999]
George LaFountaine	The Long Walk [1986]
Franklin Allen Leib	Fire Dream [1989] Valley of the Shadow [1991]
Chuck Logan	The Price of Blood [1997]
Tim Mahoney	We're Not Here [1988]
Karl Marlantes	The Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War [2010]
Ron Martin	To Be Free! [1988]
Bobbie Ann Mason	In Country [1986]
John P. McAfee	A Slow Walk in a Sad Rain [1993]
Gene D. Moore	The Killing at Ngo Tho [1967]
Tim O'Brien	Going After Cacciato [1978] The Things They Carried [1990]
Stewart O'Nan	The Names of the Dead [1996]
Michael Peterson	A Bitter Peace [1996] A Time of War [1990]
Donald Pfarrer	The Fearless Man [2004]
Reynolds Price	Noble Norfleet [2002]
Thomas Richards	Zero Tolerance [1997]
Elizabeth Scarborough	The Healer's War [1988]
Leonard B. Scott	Charlie Mike [1985] Solemn Duty [1997]
Danielle Steel	Message From Nam [1990]
Donald Tate	Bravo Burning [1986]
Lucian K. Truscott	Army Blue [1989]
James H. Webb	Fields of Fire [1978]
Joe Weber	Rules of Engagement [1991]
Morris West	The Ambassador [1965]
Ralph Wetterhahn	Shadowmakers [2002]
Stephen Wright	Meditations in Green [1983]

Persian Gulf War [1991]

David Alkman	When the Almond Tree Blossoms [1993]
Dale Brown	Chains of Command [1993] Fatal Terrain [1997] Plan of Attack [2004] Shadows of Steel [1996]
Phillip Caputo	Exiles: Three Short Novels [1997]
Ward Carroll	Punk's War [2001]
William Christie	Warriors of God [1992]
Patrick Steane Duncan	Courage Under Fire [1996]
James Ferro	Death Wish [2002] Fort Apache [2000]
Sean Flannery	Kilo Option [1996]
Vince Flynn	Executive Power [2003] Separation of Power [2001]
Frederick Forsyth	The Fist of God [1994]
Jo Franklin	Wing of the Falcon [1995]
George Galdorisis	For Duty and Honor [2004]
Jack Higgins	Eye of the Storm [1992]
Charles Jaco	Dead Air [1998]
Gordon Kent	Rules of Engagement [1999]
Chuck Logan	After the Rain [2004]
Ian McEwan	Saturday [2005]
John J. Nance	Scorpion Strike [1992]
Tom Paine	Pearl of Kuwait [2003]
R.J. Pinero	Retribution [1995] Ultimatum [1994]
David Poyer	Black Storm [2002] The Gulf [1990]
Timothy Rizzi	Phalanx Dragon [1994]
Patrick Rogers	Target Zone [1993]
Roger L. Simon	Director's Cut [2005]
Michael Skinner	First Air [1991]
Grant Sutherland	The Consignment [2003]
Robin White	Angle of Attack [1992]

The Yugoslav War [1991-1995]

Tom Foley

This Way to Heaven [2000]

Iraq War [2003]

Vince Flynn	Executive Power [2003] Separation of Power [2001]
Dee Henderson	True Valor [2001]
Ian McEwan	Saturday [2005]
David Poyer	Black Storm [2002]
Roger L. Simon	Director's Cut [2005]

World War III [near future contemporary]

Jimmie H. Butler	The Iskra Incident [1990]
Harold Coyne	Team Yankee [1987]
General Sir John Hackworth	The Third World War, August 1985 [1978] [355.48 Hac] The Third World War, the Untold Story [1982] [355.48 Hac]

War in Science Fiction [various time period settings]

Kevin J. Anderson	The "Saga of the Seven Suns" series
Karel Capek	War With the Newts [1937]
Orson Scott Card	Ender's Game [1985]
Tony Daniel	Metaplanetary: A Novel of Instellar Civil War [2001]
David Drake	Hammer's Slammers [1993] and many, many more...
Joe Haldeman	The Forever War [1974]
Robert A. Heinlein	Starship Troopers [1959]
George Lucas	Star Wars (A New Hope) [1977]
Sean McMullen	The Miocene Arrow [2000]
Walter M. Miller	A Canticle for Leibowitz [1959]
Elizabeth Moon	The "Serrano Suiza" series
Frederick Pohl	The Cool War [1980]
Alistair Reynolds	Absolution Gap [2004]
John Ringo	The "Posleen War" series
Fred Saberhagen	The "Berserker" series
David Sherman & Dan Cragg	The "Starfist" series
A.E. VanVogt	The War Against the Rull [1959]
David Weber	The "Honor Harrington" series and many more...
H.G. Wells	The War of the Worlds [1898]
813.08 Com	Combat S.F. [1975]
813.08 Faw	The Far Stars War [1990]
813.08 Sch	War and Peace: Possible Futures from Analog [1983]

General Works [various time period settings]

Robert Asprin	The Cold Cash War [1977]
Alan Furst	Night Soldiers [1988]
Van Wyck Mason	American Men at Arms [1968]
Ralph Peters	Red Army [1989]
Quentin J. Reynolds	Known But to God [1960]
813.08 Jen	Soldiers and Civilians: Americans At War and At Home [1986]

Original printed list Jun 1991 bwc
Updated and expanded for the Web August 2005 sdc/rs -- Last updated May 2010 sdc

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