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.
Memoirs
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
This blog is written by
the author of Bally and Bro, Motherdarling
and The Kids of God
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