What are some good war books lit? I've only read
The Things they Carried - O'Brien
The Face of War - Gellhorn
In Pharaoh's Army-Tobias Wolff
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>>7695446
Also Storm of Steel.
>>7695446
Infantry Attacks (WW1, tactics heavy but autobiographical)
Read Storm of Steel and All Quiet on the Western Front together, both memoirs (WW1)
The collected works of Wilfred Owen (poetry, WWI)
Company Commander (WW2, memoir)
Catch-22 (WW2)
Platoon Leader (Vietnam, memoir),
Fields of Fire (Vietnam, fiction)
Trees of Smoke (Vietnam, fiction)
Dien Cai Dau (Vietnam, poetry)
Fiasco (Iraq, contemporary history)
I haven't read any fiction from recent wars. Lots of people recommend The Unforgiving Minute (Afghanistan, memoir) but as a lieutenant who served in Afghanistan, I think the author's a bitch.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk got decent reviews (Iraq, fiction) but I've never read it.
The Iliad
>>7695566
seconded
>>7695555
the guy who wrote dien cai dau is a graduate of my school
>>7695446
Read O'Briens other work if you liked the things they carried, I really did. Also, pic related is probably the best book about war that I've come across.
>>7695555
All Quiet on the Western Front
Gravity's Rainbow
Blood Meridian
>>7695555
I second Tree of Smoke.
>>7695446
Mother Courage and her Children
>>7695555
All Quiet on the Western Front is not a memoir. Good list nonetheless
>>7695689
This is the only book on war you need to read. Every other will try desperately to humanize or romanticize the phenomenon and McCarthy will disintegrate these notions utterly.
