war fiction

Book Reviews

Bao Ninh: The Sorrow of War*
- a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier
John Biggins: The Emperor's Coloured Coat
- the adventures of an Austrian naval lieutenant in 1912-1914
John Biggins: A Sailor of Austria
- the exploits of an Austro-Hungarian submarine commander
Tom Clancy: Clear and Present Danger
- for afficionados of military hardware; not my cup of tea
Hugo Claus: The Sorrow of Belgium**
- an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
Duong Thu Huong: Novel Without a Name
- a North Vietnamese soldier's story
C.S. Forester: Horatio Hornblower*
- classic age-of-sail naval fiction
Henry Green: Caught*
- a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
Hwang Sun-won: Trees on a Slope*
- a novel of the Korean war
Ha Jin: War Trash
- the story of a Chinese prisoner-of-war in Korea
Ismail Kadare: The General of the Dead Army*
- on a macabre quest in Albania
Thomas Keneally: Gossip from the Forest
- a novel about the signing of the armistice that ended World War I
Imre Kertesz: Fatelessness
- a teenager in Buchenwald concentration camp
Christopher J. Koch: Highways to a War
- a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
- a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
Harry Mulisch: The Assault*
- a Dutch novel about recovery from wartime trauma
Irène Némirovsky: Suite Française
- a novel of France in 1940-1941
Patrick O'Brian: The Aubrey/Maturin books
- a naval lieutenant and a penniless physician meet at Port Mahon in 1801...
C. Northcote Parkinson: The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower; Devil to Pay
- a fictional biography of CS Forester's naval hero
Borislav Pekic: How to Quiet a Vampire**
- a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
- the classic novel of the First World War
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: August 1914*
- a fictional account of the battle of Tannenberg
C.K. Stead: Talking About O'Dwyer
- fifty years to resolve a Maori curse from World War II
Béla Zsolt: Nine Suitcases*
- a novel of the Holocaust in Hungary