Classic War Literature
Tolstoy's Borodino unfolding across hundreds of pages, Stephen Crane's Henry Fleming running from his first volley, Ernst Jünger in the Flanders mud, Robert Graves saying goodbye to all of it. War as literature, from the Napoleonic campaigns through the Great War — character avatars across regiments and generations, click-to-explain for every rank and forgotten weapon, and chapter music that quiets for the dugout and swells for the advance.
40 books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Iliad by Homer

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant

My Four Weeks in France by Ring Lardner

John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

Hadji Murád by Leo Tolstoy

Commentaries on the Gallic War by Julius Caesar

A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes

Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. Wells

Greenmantle by John Buchan

Soldiers’ Pay by William Faulkner

Yashka by Maria Bochkareva

The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt

Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

In the Midst of Life by Ambrose Bierce

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Clerambault by Romain Rolland

With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz

One of Ours by Willa Cather

A Man Could Stand Up— by Ford Madox Ford

Some Do Not … by Ford Madox Ford

Trafalgar by Benito Pérez Galdós

The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings

Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester

Disenchantment by C. E. Montague

The Last Post by Ford Madox Ford

The Deluge by Henryk Sienkiewicz

No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford

William—An Englishman by Cicely Hamilton

Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw

The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

Pan Michael by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Lay Down Your Arms by Bertha von Suttner

Theodore Savage by Cicely Hamilton
