Absurdity of War

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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,341 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,064 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,324 ratings
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1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,641 ratings
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings
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MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1)
MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors (M*A*S*H, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 9,911 ratings
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Candide
Candide
by: Voltaire
3.76 avg rating — 294,534 ratings
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The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier Švejk 4.10 avg rating — 20,524 ratings
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Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating — 46,253 ratings
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels 3.59 avg rating — 293,925 ratings
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Lysistrata
Lysistrata 3.87 avg rating — 52,371 ratings
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3) 4.09 avg rating — 122,070 ratings
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The Absolutist
The Absolutist 4.10 avg rating — 22,493 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,962 ratings
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Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato 3.91 avg rating — 14,427 ratings
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Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating — 47,423 ratings
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The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam
The March Of Folly: From Troy To Vietnam 4.02 avg rating — 7,165 ratings
18.
The Damned Balkans: A Refugee Road Trip
The Damned Balkans: A Refugee Road Trip 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,896 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,439 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
Alas, Babylon
by: Pat Frank
4.09 avg rating — 47,859 ratings
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The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4)
The Looking Glass War (George Smiley, #4) 3.73 avg rating — 17,792 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,493 ratings
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Peeling the Onion
Peeling the Onion 3.86 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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The First Casualty
The First Casualty
by: Ben Elton
3.95 avg rating — 6,599 ratings
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Meeting Murder (The Meeting Mysteries Book 1)
Meeting Murder (The Meeting Mysteries Book 1) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Gallipoli
Gallipoli 4.07 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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L'Œuvre au noir
L'Œuvre au noir 4.02 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
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Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel
Johnny Mad Dog: A Novel 3.92 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Sergeant Cuddlington and The War At Sea
Sergeant Cuddlington and The War At Sea it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Jackboot Britain
Jackboot Britain 3.63 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Complicity (The CCCCC Conspirators Code #1)
Complicity (The CCCCC Conspirators Code #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog
Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Les Chevaux à la fenêtre / Mais qu'est-ce qu'on fait du violoncelle?
Les Chevaux à la fenêtre / Mais qu'est-ce qu'on fait du violoncelle? 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Birdsong on Holbeck Moor
Birdsong on Holbeck Moor 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Allah Is Not Obliged
Allah Is Not Obliged 3.68 avg rating — 2,317 ratings
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The Lie
The Lie 3.64 avg rating — 4,239 ratings
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The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War
The Pentagon Papers: The Secret History of the Vietnam War 3.97 avg rating — 527 ratings
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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You 3.86 avg rating — 6,375 ratings
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam 4.24 avg rating — 12,399 ratings
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De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog: In het achterland (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #1)
De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog: In het achterland (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Human Aggression
Human Aggression 3.60 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Two Women
Two Women 4.08 avg rating — 3,745 ratings
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Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force 3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings
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De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ; Aan het front (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #2)
De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ; Aan het front (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Debacle (Les Rougon-Macquart, #19)
The Debacle (Les Rougon-Macquart, #19) 4.04 avg rating — 1,817 ratings
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The Company
The Company 4.27 avg rating — 6,144 ratings
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Seasons Of War
Seasons Of War 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ; In krijgsgevangenschap (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #3-4)
De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk in de wereldoorlog ; In krijgsgevangenschap (De lotgevallen van de brave soldaat Švejk, #3-4) 4.06 avg rating — 443 ratings
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Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto 4.13 avg rating — 4,029 ratings
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Numba One - Numba Ten: A Vietnam War Novel
Numba One - Numba Ten: A Vietnam War Novel 4.40 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Aardvark Is Ready for War: A Novel
The Aardvark Is Ready for War: A Novel 3.39 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Walnut Tree (Bess Crawford, #4.5)
The Walnut Tree (Bess Crawford, #4.5) 3.78 avg rating — 3,929 ratings
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Islands of Silence: A Novel
Islands of Silence: A Novel 4.04 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Gifts of War
Gifts of War 3.57 avg rating — 556 ratings
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Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam
Boot: A Sorta Novel of Vietnam 4.53 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Pork Chop Hill
Pork Chop Hill 3.58 avg rating — 167 ratings
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,417 ratings
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A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Where Is The Number?
Where Is The Number? 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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I Am the Clay
I Am the Clay 3.63 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating — 209,878 ratings
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,745 ratings
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Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves 3.71 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia 4.33 avg rating — 8,765 ratings
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Charnel House
Charnel House 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Rose for the ANZAC Boys
A Rose for the ANZAC Boys 4.03 avg rating — 2,224 ratings
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Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857
Our Bones Are Scattered: The Cawnpore Massacres and The Indian Mutiny Of 1857 4.15 avg rating — 105 ratings
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The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum 3.95 avg rating — 45,958 ratings
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Valentine Joe (Rose #1)
Valentine Joe (Rose #1) 3.94 avg rating — 429 ratings
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Story of the War in South Africa
Story of the War in South Africa 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Foreshadowing
The Foreshadowing 3.80 avg rating — 2,372 ratings
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The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War 4.25 avg rating — 2,794 ratings
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The Train Was on Time
The Train Was on Time 3.88 avg rating — 3,684 ratings
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Simpson and the Donkey: The Making of a Legend
Simpson and the Donkey: The Making of a Legend 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant 3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Silent Angel
The Silent Angel 3.67 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
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Eventual Poppy Day
Eventual Poppy Day 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
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A Soldier's Legacy
A Soldier's Legacy 3.55 avg rating — 513 ratings
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My Father's War
My Father's War 3.77 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman 3.87 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I
Eye-Deep In Hell: Trench Warfare In World War I 4.03 avg rating — 624 ratings
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Flora's War
Flora's War 3.79 avg rating — 71 ratings
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In Flanders Fields: Passchendaele 1917
In Flanders Fields: Passchendaele 1917 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 373 ratings
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In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae 4.28 avg rating — 280 ratings
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1916 (Australia's Great War, #3)
1916 (Australia's Great War, #3) 3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings
87.
Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon
Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon 4.31 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade 4.18 avg rating — 563 ratings
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The Animals' VC: For Gallantry or Devotion: The PDSA Dickin Medal - Inspiring stories of bravery and courage
The Animals' VC: For Gallantry or Devotion: The PDSA Dickin Medal - Inspiring stories of bravery and courage 3.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 4.17 avg rating — 48,563 ratings
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The Horses Didn't Come Home
The Horses Didn't Come Home 4.23 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Fall of Saigon: Scenes From the Sudden End of a Long War
The Fall of Saigon: Scenes From the Sudden End of a Long War 3.87 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 4.32 avg rating — 40,055 ratings
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Generals Die in Bed
Generals Die in Bed 3.82 avg rating — 1,632 ratings
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Cruel April: The Fall Of Saigon
Cruel April: The Fall Of Saigon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Stories of World War One
Stories of World War One 3.77 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Birdsong
Birdsong 4.11 avg rating — 82,679 ratings
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Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy 3.22 avg rating — 315 ratings
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Only Remembered
Only Remembered
by: Ian Beck
4.10 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Best Christmas Present in the World
The Best Christmas Present in the World 4.30 avg rating — 570 ratings
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