War and Conflict Novels

The War and Conflict category may seem like its only for guys, but girls too need to read about the realities of war. Perhaps you have heard the saying "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." – George Santayana

After the First Death by Robert Cormier

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub

B for Buster by Iain Lawrence

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose

Black Hawk Down: a Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden

A Boy at War: a Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer

Boy Kills Man by Matt Whyman

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima by James Bradley With Ron Powers

Ghost Soldiers: the Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides

Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn

Heroes by Robert Cormier

In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff

In the Company of Men: a Woman at the Citadel by Nancy Mace & Mary Jane Ross

In the Night, On Lanvale Street by Jane Leslie Conly

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

Kipling’s Choice by Geert Spillebeen

The Last Mission by Harry Mazer

Light Years by Tammar Stein

Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence

The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall

Making Up Megaboy by Virginia Walters

Master and Commander by Patrick O’brian

Pagan’s Crusade: the Pagan Chronicles by Catherine Jinks

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Real Time by Pnina Moed Kass

The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff

Shooter by Walter Dean Myers

Slaughterhouse-Five; Or, the Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut

Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes

Soldier X by Don Wulffson

Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen

Troy by Adele Geras

Under a War-Torn Sky by L. M. Elliott