THE WAR ROOM

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Books that will fit the War Room 2024 Challenge in the 75 Book Challenge Group
2
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,739 members
282 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
Billhere, CORMALLEN, avatiakh, amanda4242, atozgrl, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
amanda4242: WWI fiction
3
The Eagle of the Ninth
by Rosemary Sutcliff
3,663 members
72 reviews
4
9 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, amanda4242, atozgrl, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, mckenziecoleman
Explanations
avatiakh: children's fiction, Roman Britain
4
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,672 members
511 reviews
½ 4.3
8 Members
Billhere, CORMALLEN, avatiakh, amanda4242, atozgrl, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: Napoleonic Wars fiction
5
The Killer Angels
by Michael Shaara
9,839 members
197 reviews
½ 4.3
8 Members
Billhere, labfs39, amanda4242, atozgrl, RBeffa, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, Chris.White
Explanations
labfs39: Civil War
amanda4242: American Civil War, fiction
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
13,576 members
245 reviews
4.1
8 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, atozgrl, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, mckenziecoleman
7
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
4,151 members
80 reviews
4
6 Members
alcottacre, CORMALLEN, amanda4242, RBeffa, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction
8
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
21,618 members
223 reviews
3.9
9 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, amanda4242, atozgrl, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
amanda4242: Spanish Civil War fiction
9
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
6,537 members
165 reviews
4
6 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
avatiakh: WW1 fiction
10
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,097 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
Billhere, avatiakh, amanda4242, atozgrl, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: American Civil War fiction
11
A Town Like Alice
by Nevil Shute
4,096 members
151 reviews
4
7 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
avatiakh: WW2 fiction
12
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
by David Halberstam
2,050 members
44 reviews
4.1
6 Members
alcottacre, Billhere, RBeffa, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, PedroCurtoSimoes
13
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,745 members
206 reviews
4
6 Members
amanda4242, RBeffa, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
amanda4242: Vietnam War fiction
14
The Return of the Soldier
by Rebecca West
1,721 members
82 reviews
3.9
7 Members
alcottacre, avatiakh, amanda4242, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWI fiction
15
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
10,634 members
357 reviews
4
6 Members
avatiakh, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
avatiakh: WW2 fiction
16
Gods and Generals
by Jeff Shaara
3,571 members
36 reviews
3.9
5 Members
Billhere, mahsdad, atozgrl, PaulCranswick, Chris.White
Explanations
mahsdad: Civil War - fiction
17
Storm of Steel
by Ernst Jünger
2,832 members
74 reviews
4.1
5 Members
alcottacre, CORMALLEN, avatiakh, PaulCranswick, PedroCurtoSimoes
Explanations
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Regeneration
by Pat Barker
4,898 members
123 reviews
4
5 Members
mahsdad, amanda4242, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
mahsdad: WWI - fiction
19
The Rape of Nanking
by Iris Chang
4,069 members
96 reviews
4.1
5 Members
Billhere, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
20
The Guns of August
by Barbara Tuchman
7,603 members
144 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
Billhere, CORMALLEN, atozgrl, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
Explanations
atozgrl: WWI, nonfiction
21
Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson
12,672 members
130 reviews
3.8
6 Members
avatiakh, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
23
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T. E. Lawrence
5,362 members
65 reviews
4
5 Members
CORMALLEN, amanda4242, RBeffa, PaulCranswick, michauddaniel
Explanations
amanda4242: WWI non-fiction
24
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
13,010 members
172 reviews
3.8
6 Members
Billhere, avatiakh, atozgrl, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
25
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,324 members
121 reviews
3.8
4 Members
Billhere, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, PedroCurtoSimoes
26
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
7,109 members
130 reviews
4.1
5 Members
alcottacre, avatiakh, amanda4242, EllaTim, PaulCranswick
Explanations
avatiakh: Spanish Civil War, nonfiction
27
Hiroshima (expanded edition)
by John Hersey
5,042 members
80 reviews
4
5 Members
atozgrl, RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
28
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis De Bernières
8,543 members
159 reviews
3.9
5 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
29
Testament of Youth
by Vera Brittain
2,429 members
54 reviews
4.1
4 Members
RBeffa, Kristelh, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
30
Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
5,962 members
101 reviews
4
5 Members
Billhere, CORMALLEN, RBeffa, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
31
A Stillness at Appomattox
by Bruce Catton
2,111 members
11 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
Billhere, labfs39, atozgrl, PaulCranswick
Explanations
labfs39: Civil War
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The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
3,073 members
64 reviews
4
4 Members
mahsdad, amanda4242, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
Explanations
mahsdad: WWI - fiction
33
The Hiding Place
by Corrie ten Boom
12,490 members
165 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
dara85, atozgrl, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
34
War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo
4,516 members
133 reviews
4
4 Members
avatiakh, amanda4242, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWI children's fiction
35
Bomber
by Len Deighton
812 members
23 reviews
4
3 Members
HugoNebula, PaulCranswick, Chris.White
36
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
3,724 members
163 reviews
4
4 Members
RBeffa, Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
37
The Balkan Trilogy
by Olivia Manning
1,277 members
33 reviews
4.1
4 Members
alcottacre, avatiakh, PaulCranswick, PedroCurtoSimoes
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Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
2,909 members
74 reviews
4
4 Members
CORMALLEN, amanda4242, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
amanda4242: First Anglo-Afghan War fiction
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Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
1,994 members
29 reviews
3.8
3 Members
Kristelh, PaulCranswick, ManWithAnAgenda
40
King Rat
by James Clavell
3,188 members
49 reviews
4
4 Members
avatiakh, RBeffa, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
avatiakh: WW2 fiction
41
Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
12,231 members
281 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ManWithAnAgenda
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,191 members
543 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
atozgrl, vancouverdeb, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
atozgrl: WWII, fiction
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The Enormous Room
by E. E. Cummings
1,669 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
Kristelh, PaulCranswick, ManWithAnAgenda
44
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
by Antony Beevor
3,496 members
62 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Billhere, labfs39, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
labfs39: WWII
45
Flashman at the Charge
by George MacDonald Fraser
1,271 members
21 reviews
4.2
4 Members
CORMALLEN, amanda4242, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
Explanations
amanda4242: Crimean War fiction
46
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,301 members
779 reviews
4.1
4 Members
alcottacre, Billhere, CORMALLEN, amanda4242
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction
47
The Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan
2,749 members
53 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Billhere, CORMALLEN, labfs39, PaulCranswick
Explanations
labfs39: WWII
48
War and Turpentine
by Stefan Hertmans
1,013 members
44 reviews
4
3 Members
alcottacre, EllaTim, PaulCranswick
49
Under Fire
by Henri Barbusse
897 members
25 reviews
3.9
3 Members
alcottacre, avatiakh, PaulCranswick
Explanations
50
Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes
3,129 members
138 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
alcottacre, labfs39, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
Explanations
alcottacre: Vietnam War
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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
by Winston Groom
347 members
9 reviews
4.1
4 Members
alcottacre, Billhere, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
Explanations
alcottacre: WWI. Recommended in Nancy Pearl's "Book Lust"
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1776
by David McCullough
14,920 members
265 reviews
4.1
3 Members
Billhere, atozgrl, RBeffa
Explanations
atozgrl: American Revolution, nonfiction
53
Half of a Yellow Sun
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
7,922 members
317 reviews
4.2
4 Members
Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick, ahef1963
54
Knight Crusader
by Ronald Welch
154 members
2 reviews
3.9
3 Members
avatiakh, PaulCranswick, ArlieS
Explanations
ArlieS: children's fiction: wars of religion
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The Charioteer
by Mary Renault
1,266 members
37 reviews
4.1
3 Members
alcottacre, amanda4242, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction
56
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J. G. Farrell
2,305 members
74 reviews
4
4 Members
CORMALLEN, avatiakh, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
Explanations
avatiakh: Colonial Wars: fiction, India
57
The Eye in the Door
by Pat Barker
2,318 members
55 reviews
4
3 Members
mahsdad, amanda4242, PaulCranswick
Explanations
mahsdad: WWI - fiction
58
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
4,176 members
74 reviews
4
3 Members
alcottacre, amanda4242, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWI non-fiction
59
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,444 members
579 reviews
4.1
4 Members
Billhere, CORMALLEN, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
60
The Bridge over the River Kwai
by Pierre Boulle
1,652 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
avatiakh, RBeffa, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
61
The Black Arrow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
4,370 members
60 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
avatiakh, atozgrl, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
avatiakh: War of the Roses
62
The Good Soldier Švejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
3,970 members
72 reviews
4
3 Members
avatiakh, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
63
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945
by Rick Atkinson
1,790 members
52 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
RBeffa, PaulCranswick, Chris.White
64
Lionheart
by Sharon Kay Penman
1,001 members
58 reviews
3.9
4 Members
amanda4242, RBeffa, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
RBeffa: Crusades
65
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,076 members
969 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
amanda4242, RBeffa, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction
66
Shiloh
by Shelby Foote
884 members
19 reviews
3.9
3 Members
labfs39, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
Explanations
labfs39: Civil War
67
The Last of the Wine
by Mary Renault
1,843 members
30 reviews
4.1
3 Members
amanda4242, PaulCranswick, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
amanda4242: Peloponnesian War, fiction
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The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
by John Keegan
3,066 members
32 reviews
4
3 Members
Billhere, PaulCranswick, ArlieS
Explanations
ArlieS: Non-fiction. General (so fits wildcard), but with specific coverage of Agincourt (n/a), Waterloo (Napoleonic) and The Somme (WW I).
70
The Cruel Sea
by Nicholas Monsarrat
1,403 members
35 reviews
4.2
3 Members
CORMALLEN, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
71
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor
4,800 members
65 reviews
4.2
3 Members
Billhere, labfs39, PaulCranswick
Explanations
labfs39: WWII
72
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
16,506 members
414 reviews
4.2
3 Members
Kristelh, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
Kristelh: Vietnam War
73
Where Eagles Dare
by Alistair MacLean
1,838 members
48 reviews
3.8
3 Members
atozgrl, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
74
The Tunnels of Cu-Chi
by Tom Mangold
537 members
8 reviews
3.8
2 Members
labfs39, TJDoran
Explanations
labfs39: Vietnam War
75
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
8,126 members
100 reviews
4.1
3 Members
alcottacre, amanda4242, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction
76
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
2,103 members
54 reviews
4
3 Members
alcottacre, PaulCranswick, Chris.White
Explanations
alcottacre: American Civil War
77
The History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
8,976 members
70 reviews
4
3 Members
Billhere, Kristelh, PaulCranswick
78
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by Tom Holland
2,420 members
40 reviews
4
3 Members
alcottacre, CORMALLEN, PaulCranswick
79
War and Remembrance
by Herman Wouk
2,995 members
43 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
alcottacre, Billhere, RBeffa
80
And No Birds Sang
by Farley Mowat
534 members
12 reviews
3.9
2 Members
vancouverdeb, PaulCranswick
Explanations
vancouverdeb: WW11, memoir by Canadian
81
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
by Bernard Cornwell
938 members
27 reviews
4.1
2 Members
PaulCranswick, TJDoran
82
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
14,402 members
618 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
atozgrl, Tess_W
Explanations
atozgrl: WWII, nonfiction
83
The Warrior Queens
by Antonia Fraser
1,394 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
amanda4242, PaulCranswick, ManWithAnAgenda
84
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
by Margalit Fox
249 members
11 reviews
3.8
2 Members
alcottacre, PaulCranswick
Explanations
alcottacre: WWI. Escape from Turkish prison camp.
85
The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan
by Artyom Borovik
233 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
labfs39, PaulCranswick
86
Look Down in Mercy
by Walter Baxter
47 members
2 reviews
3.8
3 Members
alcottacre, amanda4242, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction
88
When Christ and His Saints Slept
by Sharon Kay Penman
2,230 members
64 reviews
4.2
3 Members
amanda4242, Tess_W, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: The Anarchy fiction
89
The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally
755 members
38 reviews
4
3 Members
alcottacre, labfs39, Tess_W
Explanations
90
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
by Max Hastings
1,868 members
36 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
atozgrl, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
91
Waiting: A Novel of Uganda's Hidden War
by Goretti Kyomuhendo
59 members
4.2
3 Members
amanda4242, vancouverdeb, PaulCranswick
Explanations
vancouverdeb: colonialism, Uganda war,
92
A Long, Long Way
by Sebastian Barry
1,356 members
63 reviews
4
2 Members
vancouverdeb, PaulCranswick
93
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
by Rick Atkinson
3,212 members
72 reviews
4.2
3 Members
Billhere, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
95
Pied Piper
by Nevil Shute
983 members
40 reviews
4.1
3 Members
avatiakh, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
Explanations
avatiakh: WW2, fiction
96
If Not Now, When?
by Primo Levi
1,624 members
20 reviews
4.1
2 Members
EllaTim, PaulCranswick
97
For the King
by Ronald Welch
40 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
PaulCranswick, ArlieS
Explanations
ArlieS: children's fiction: English civil war
98
Run Silent, Run Deep
by Edward L. Beach
555 members
9 reviews
4.1
3 Members
atozgrl, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
Explanations
atozgrl: WWII, fiction
99
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
by James D. Hornfischer
784 members
28 reviews
4.2
3 Members
Billhere, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
100
The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
3,945 members
122 reviews
3.9
3 Members
amanda4242, RBeffa, PaulCranswick
Explanations
amanda4242: WWII fiction