Best Modern War Novels - April 2024

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

• ASIN: 0385333846
• ASIN: 0385333846
• ISBN: 0812988523
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

WAR

• ASIN: B0035II95C
• ASIN: B0035II95C
• Manufacturer: Twelve

Next Year in Havana

A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK"A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice."--Reese WitherspoonAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolut... [Read More]

• ASIN: B072BLV8Y9
• ASIN: B072BLV8Y9
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Refugee

A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America . . .MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545880831
• ASIN: 0545880831
• ISBN: 9780545880831
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyOne of the Best Books of the Year:The Christian Science MonitorNPRThe Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago TribuneA New York Times Notable BookThe Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.At the center of it all was Lawrence himself. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307476413
• UPC: 884729379209
• ASIN: 0307476413
• ISBN: 9780307476418
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

• ASIN: B0054LJGWS
• ASIN: B0054LJGWS
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

• ASIN: 0060883286
• ASIN: 0060883286
• ISBN: 9780060883287
• Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

CIRCE

• ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
• ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

These Truths: A History of the United States

• ASIN: 0393635244
• ASIN: 0393635244
• ISBN: 0393635244
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

1984

• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• ASIN: B003JTHWKU
• Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alexander Hamilton

A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is “a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143034758
• ASIN: 0143034758
• ISBN: 0143034758
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

The Kite Runner

The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over.   The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159463193X
• ASIN: 159463193X
• ISBN: 9781594631931
• Brand: Riverhead Books
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hur... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061120065
• ASIN: 0061120065
• ISBN: 0061120065
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

This Scorched Earth: A Novel of the Civil War and the American West

An amazing tour de force depicting a family’s journey from devastation to rebirth following the American Civil War, from New York Times bestselling author William Gear.The Hancocks of Arkansas were true American pioneers: tough, enterprising, eager to make their own destinies.Then came the Civil War, the deadly, murderous conflict that sundered the bonds between brothers, destroyed most of a generation, and cast the Hancocks to the winds…Against this bloody backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the struggle to rebuild, William Gear draws his readers irresistibly into the hopes, drea... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071NRPBZV
• ASIN: B071NRPBZV
• Manufacturer: Forge Books

My Ishmael (Ishmael Series Book 3)

• ASIN: B002PXFYHY
• ASIN: B002PXFYHY
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II (Hardcover)

It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending

• UPC: 52705326
• Rating: 5.0

The Killer Angels : The Classic Novel of the Civil War

Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at

• UPC: 470118
• Rating: 4.433

Last Shot (Star Wars) : A Han and Lando Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Han Solo and Lando Calrissian are reunited on the Millennium Falcon in a galaxy-spanning novel inspired by Solo: A Star Wars Story. But even the fastest ship in the universe

• UPC: 372047475
• Rating: 3.667

Matterhorn : A Novel of the Vietnam War

An incredible publishing story--written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a "New York Times" best seller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next and a "USA Today" best seller--"Matterhorn"

• UPC: 15226643
• Rating: 4.625

Shatterpoint: Star Wars Legends : A Clone Wars Novel

In the first of six novels set during the era of the Clone Wars, Master Mace Windu returns to his Separatist-occupied homeworld to investigate the disappearance of his former Padawan, Depa Billaba, who had been

• UPC: 2456702
• Rating: 3.429

501st: Star Wars Legends (Imperial Commando) : An Imperial Commando Novel

A #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers more Stormtrooper action tofans of the hugely popular Star Wars: Republic Commando books.

• UPC: 10763981
• Rating: 5.0

Ghost Fleet : A Novel of the Next World War

Two authorities on future warfare join forces to create a taut, convincing novel—set in 2026—about a besieged America battling for its very

• UPC: 48587051
• Rating: 3.25

A Boy at War : A Novel of Pearl Harbor

While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father,

• UPC: 1877323
• Rating: 3.833

The Last Full Measure : A Novel of the Civil War

Follows the continuing showdown between Grant and Lee on the battlefields of the Civil

• UPC: 743272
• Rating: 3.769

The Killer Angels : The Classic Novel of the Civil War

Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at

• UPC: 469078
• Rating: 4.433

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Best Selling Book by Heather Morris - Paperback

• UPC: 372464544340
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 4 GBP