 | Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Buy new: £5.92 / Used from: £0.01 Let's start with the Americans... they won the war, after all... a postmodernist classic--devastatingly funny
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 | History: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics) by Elsa Morante
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £8.77 Also the civilians were in the war... Italians too...
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 | The Big Show (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Pierre Clostermann
Buy new: £6.44 / Used from: £1.47 The war told by a fighter ace with a soul and some style
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 | Trial by Battle (Paladin Books) by David Piper
Buy used from: £0.01 It's a shame it's out of print--it reads like a thriller and hits like a bullet
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 | The Sword of Honour Trilogy: Men at Arms, Officers and by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £4.71 Vitriolic and unforgettable
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 | Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.74 Another US masterpiece
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 | Black Rain (Japan's Modern Writers) by Masuji Ibuse
Buy new: £4.81 / Used from: £2.93 Between fact and fiction: a Japanese classic
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 | Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics) by with an introduction by Dan Hofstadter Curzio Malaparte
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £4.16 The great Italian classic read all over the world and despised by Italian academicians--but does anybody care?
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 | With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E. B. Sledge
Buy used from: £4.90 A grim, honest memoir
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 | Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics) by Shohei Ooka
Buy used from: £7.43 The Great Japanese War Novel--a Must-Read
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| Flesh Wounds (Echoes of War) by David Holbrook
Buy used from: £0.01 Undeservedly out of print: A beautiful memoir
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 | The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 (Modern Library Chronicles) by Paul Fussell
Buy used from: £4.16 A polemic book written by a great critic who fought in W.W.II
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 | The Volga Rises in Europe by Curzio Malaparte
Buy used from: £19.88 1st-class war reportages
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 | Johnny the Partisan by Beppe Fenoglio
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £10.50 One of the best novels ever written about the partisans and their neglected war
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 | The Naked and the Dead (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Norman Mailer
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.48 A celebrated US war novel
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 | A Private Affair (Modern Voices) by Beppe Fenoglio
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.17 Another impressive performance by a great Italian writer
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 | The Thin Red Line by James Jones
Buy used from: £4.20 Classic war novel
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 | The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Vintage Classics) by Graham Greene
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.65 Not just a perfect thriller
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 | The Path to the Spiders' Nests (Vintage classics) by Italo Calvino
Buy used from: £2.84 Also Calvino has a war story to tell
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 | Das Boot (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Lothar Gunther Buchheim
Buy new: £5.09 / Used from: £0.01 An anti-militarist classic from Germany
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 | Skin (European Classics) by Malaparte
Unfortunately out of print--buy it used!
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 | The Sergeant in the Snow by Mario Rigoni Stern
Buy new: £12.45 / Used from: £12.98 Powerful, icy war memoir from the Eastern Front
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 | Empire of the Sun (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by J.G. Ballard
Buy new: £4.96 / Used from: £0.64 the war seen by a kid--a visionary account
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 | If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.46 They also fought a war, and managed to survive...
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 | Castle to Castle (French Literature) by Ralph Manheim
Buy new: £8.26 / Used from: £3.85 He was a Fascist, no doubt--but also a great writer. The story told by the losers.
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