Project War

American Civil War

Charles Frazier – Cold Mountain, 1997

Sebastian Barry – Days without End, 2016

 

World War I

Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms, 1929

Dalton Trumbo – Johnny Got His Gun, 1939

Pat Barker – Regeneration, 1991

Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong,1993

Pat Barker – The Eye in the Door, 1995

Pat Barker – The Ghost Road, 1996

Ben Elton – The First Casualty, 2005

Pat Barker – Toby’s Room, 2012

 

World War II

Joseph Heller – Catch-22, 1961

Kurt Vonnegut – Mother Night, 1961

Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughter-house Five, 1969

Michael Ondaatje – The English Patient, 1992

Ian McEwan – Atonement, 2001

Philip Roth – The Plot Against America, 2004

Tan Twang Eng – The Garden of Evening Mists, 2011

Sebastian Faulks – A Possible Life, 1993

Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 2013

Anthony Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

Kate Atkinson – A God in Ruins, 2015

Emma Hooper – Etta and Otto and Russell and James, 2015

Michael Ondaantje – Warlight, 2018

Nicole Krauss – The History of Love, 2019

 

Korean War

James Salter – The Hunters, 1956

Toni Morrison – Home, 2012 [½]

 

Vietnam War

Graham Greene – The Quiet American, 1955

Viet Thanh Nguyen – The Sympathizer, 2015

Robert Olen Butler – Perfume River, 2016

 

 

The Troubles

Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, 1989

Brian Moore – Lies of Silence, 1990

Anna Burns – Milkman, 2018

 

 

Balkan War

Steven Galloway – The Cellist of Sarajevo, 2008

Téa Obreht – The Tiger’s Wife, 2011

 

Iraq War

(Ben Fountain – Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, 2012

Kevin Powers – The Yellow Birds, 2012

Nico Walker – Cherry, 2018

 

 

Afghan War

Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner, 2004

Atticus Lish – Preparation of the Next Life, 2014

 

 

African Conflicts

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006

Dave Eggers – What’s the What, 2006

Chris Cleave – Little Bee [The Other Hand], 2008

 

Other Wars

Ernest Hemingway – For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940

Stephen Dau – The Book of Jonas, 2012

Mohsin Hamid – Exit West, 2017

 

Terrorism

Mohsin Hamid – The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007

Kamila Shamsie – Home Fire, 2017