The Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers, 2012
An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a […]
War Fiction
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne, 2006
Nine-year- old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the ‘Fury’? Why did he make them leave their nice home in […]
The English Patient, Novel by Michael Ondaatje, 1992
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end […]
The Book Thief, Novel by Markus Zusak, 2005
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak’s unforgettable story is about the ability of books to […]
Atonement, Novel by Ian McEwan, 2001
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year- old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the […]
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo, 2003
A stunning edition of this modern classic of World War One, featuring an introduction by the author and insightful testimonies from soldiers. Told in the […]
The Nightingale, Novel by Kristin Hannah, 2015
The Nightingale is a historical fiction novel, written by Kristin Hannah and published in 2015. It tells the story of two sisters, just coming of […]
All Quiet on the Western Front, Novel by Erich Maria Remarque, 1929, WW I
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. ‘In the West Nothing New’) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a […]
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien, 1990, Vietnam War
The Things They Carried is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam […]