War: books about war reviewed in this blog

 Books about war in this blog:

Histories

• Invasion 1940 by Peter Fleming
• The End by Ian Kershaw: A history of the last few months of Nazi Germany
• The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• Berlin by Antony Beevoir: A history of the last few months of the Nazi regime

Memoirs

• Memoir of the Bobotes by Joyce Cary: A memoir of a Red Cross worker on the front in the pre WW1 and almost forgotten Balkan Wars
• A Detail on the Burma Front: a memoir of a nurse working in Burma during World War Two
• A Moment of War by Laurie Lee: about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Stunning.
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Fictions

• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque: an antiwar novel by a world war one soldier
• Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle: a novel about a Japanese Prisoner of War camp
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: the classic black comedy about US airmen in the second world war
• At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop: about African soldiers fighting for France in WW1
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene: a classic novel of love and betrayal set against the background of the Vietnam insurgency in French Indochina
• The Ice Cream War by William Boyd: a Booker Prize winner about conflict is East Africa
• Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Nobel laureate also writes about conflict in East Africa

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