List of books with anti-war themes
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An anti-war book is a book that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. Below are lists of some fiction and non-fiction titles for adults, teens and children with anti-war themes.
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Adult fiction
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel
- Celestial Matters - Richard Garfinkle science fiction novel
- Company K - William March novel
- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
- The Forever War - Joe Haldeman science fiction novel
- From Here to Eternity - James Jones novel
- Generals Die in Bed - Charles Yale Harrison novel
- The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hašek novel
- Hiroshima - John Hersey novel
- Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo novel, 1938
- Lay Down Your Arms! - Bertha von Suttner novel
- Lysistrata - Aristophanes play, 411 BCE
- The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer novel
- On the Beach - Nevil Shute novel
- Passport to Hell - Robin Hyde novel
- Plumes - Laurence Stallings novel
- Shabdangal - Malayalam novel, 1947
- The Short-Timers - Gustav Hasford novel
- Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel
- The Thin Red Line - James Jones novel
- The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien, 1990
- The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass novel
- The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich) - novel by Heinrich Böll, 1949
- The War Prayer - Mark Twain short story, c.1910
- Two Women - Alberto Moravia novel, 1958
- Broken Under Interrogation (novel) - Jeffrey M. Hopkins, 2008
- The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane novel, 1895
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Adult non-fiction
- An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era - Charles DeBenedetti, 1990
- Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic autobiography
- Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War - Pat Buchanan
- Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience - Robert A. Seeley, 1994
- Collateral Damage : America's War Against Iraqi Civilians - Chris Hedges, 2008
- War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges, 2003
- The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War - Frederick Downs, 1978
- The Kingdom of God is Within You - Leo Tolstoy, 1894
- Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present - S. Daniel Abraham, Bill Clinton
- Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated - James Mann, editor, 2004
- The Politics of Jesus - John Howard Yoder, 1972
- A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
- Scapegoats of the Empire - Lt. George Witton memoir, 1907
- War Is a Racket - former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935
- We Will Not Cease - Archibald Baxter (with e-Text) memoir, 1939
- White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb - L. Vance-Watkins and A. Mariko, eds., 1995
- No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran - Murray Polner, 1971
- Why Didn't You Have To Go To Vietnam, Daddy? - (Steve Wilken) Starving Writers Publishing 2009
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Teen fiction
- The Clay Marble - Minfong Ho novel, 1991
- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card novel, 1985
- Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers novel, 1988
- Habibi - Naomi Shihab Nye novel, 1997
- I Had Seen Castles - Cynthia Rylant, 1993
- The Life History of a Star - Kelly Easton, 2001
- Soldier's Heart: A Novel of the Civil War - Gary Paulsen novel, 1998
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Teen non-fiction
- Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers - Milton Meltzer, 2002
- Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace - Hoffman and Lassister, eds. essays, stories, poems, 2003
- Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors - Terrence Webster-Doyle, 1993
- Some Reasons for War: How Families, Myths and Warfare Are Connected - Sue Mansfield, 1988
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Children's fiction
- The Butter Battle Book - Dr. Seuss, 1984
- Sunrise over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers, 2008
- War Game: Village Green to No-Man's-Land - Michael Foreman, 1994
- When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War - Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006
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Children's non-fiction
- A Little Peace - Barbara Kerley, 2007
- Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World - Jane Breskin Zalben, 2004
- Peace One Day - Jeremy Gilley, 2005
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