War Literature

Description
Literature that deals with war and its consequences. Please recommend good books on this topic and remove those that don't belong on the list.
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anglemark, varielle, thorold, aulsmith, thecoroner, electrice
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aulsmith: World War I on the Western Front
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anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963
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aulsmith: I personally find the misogyny in this book so bad as to make it unreadable, but others think it is an important book about war.
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varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411
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aulsmith: US Civil War battlefield.
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anglemark, thorold, thecoroner
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thorold: One of the best satirical accounts of war. Ever.
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thorold, ManWithAnAgenda
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thorold: For my money, this is the best English novel about WW1
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aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda
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aulsmith: I personally can't stand this book, but others think it's an important war novel.
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Dilara86, ahef1963
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varielle, thorold
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thorold, ahef1963
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varielle, ahef1963
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dara85, thecoroner
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thorold, aulsmith
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aulsmith: Civilians in the Thirty Years War.
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hipdeep
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thorold, thecoroner
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thorold: An account of Waterloo by someone who knew what war was really like.
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dara85
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dara85
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anglemark
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hipdeep
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thorold
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thorold
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hipdeep
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aulsmith
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thorold
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thorold
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thorold
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ahef1963
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thorold
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thorold
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thorold
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thecoroner, ahef1963,aulsmith
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aulsmith : More an urban revolution than a war.
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thorold
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thorold: Love it or hate it, it's definitely war and definitely literature...
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varielle, ahef1963,thorold ,aulsmith ,ManWithAnAgenda
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thorold : The War Trilogy is about the war; Brideshead is about what came before.
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aulsmith : While some of this got at the experience of being in occupied territory during the war, I thought on the whole the book was too fluffy, especially to be called literature.