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Best war novels ITT.

The Thing Red Line

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Don't forget to post a pic.

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Contains war-related stories, some of the best ever, in my humble opinion.

"Soldier's Home"
"Big-Hearted River, Part I & II"

My favourite Hemingway book.

>> No.1679335

The Things They Carried
-Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong

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starting to read this tommorrow/today
pretty excited because i've heard great things

>> No.1679340

All Quiet on the Western Front
A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry
Catch 22
Slaughterhouse 5

>> No.1679343

and johnny got his gun

>> No.1679344

Not a novel, and I haven't even read it, and I forgot who wrote it, but "Dispatches". It's nonfiction about Vietnam and was the source of just about everything you see in movies about it.

>> No.1679349

>>1679343

I read that, but can't say it much about the war. It's not even much about being a trunkman without any senses left except your skin.

Failed to be an epic war book, failed to be an epic horror book. Son, I was disappoint. I saw the movie too, but nothing was as good as Metallica's version. Even though they got the facts wrong.

>facts

>> No.1679352

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

>> No.1679356

>>1679349
yeah definitely wasn't epic or anything like that. more of symbolic look at the effects of war on the individual