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World War II gave rise to a new boom in contemporary war novels. Unlike World War I novels, a European-dominated genre, World War II novels were produced in the greatest numbers by American writers, who made war in the air, on the sea, and in key theatres such as the Pacific Ocean and Asia integral to the war novel.
He went on to write a number of detective novels; Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier; Robert A. Heinlein, Lt., graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Served in U.S. Navy aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Roper (DD-147), Philadelphia Navy Yard (Stranger in a Strange Land) Joseph Heller, served in 12th Air Force
Winston Churchill – The River War, The Gathering Storm; Robert M. Citino – German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943; Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force; Carl von Clausewitz – military ...
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War (2004) is a novel written by Jeff Shaara that uses perspectives from the generals and the doughboys and from the Allies and the Germans. The 2011 novel The Absolutist was written by John Boyne , the story featuring two teenage friends who enlist in the British army together and experience the war ...
From George Orwell's '1984' to Andy Weir's 'The Martian,' here are some of the best sci-fi books ever written. ... of an entire state during war) no longer feels, well, like fiction. The work ...
Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War by Steven Pressfield; The Palaeologian Dynasty. The Rise and Fall of Byzantium by George Leonardos; Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (the Battle of Thermopylae) Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (World War I and Greco-Turkish War) The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault (Athens in the ...
Sleeping Beauties. Around the world a sleeping sickness plunges women into a strange, cocooned state. If awakened, they turn homicidal. King and his son screw this global story down to a small ...