War & Conflict

Narratives shaped by conflict, survival, and the human cost of war.

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Cormac McCarthy

A teenage runaway joins a historical band of scalp hunters marauding through the US-Mexico borderlands in the 1850s. McCarthy's most celebrated and most violent novel is a meditation on war, evil, and the nature of violence in human history.

United States 1985

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

American lieutenant Frederic Henry serves as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I and falls in love with English nurse Catherine Barkley. A classic anti-war novel that draws on Hemingway's own wartime experiences.

United States 1929

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

An American volunteer fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War spends three days behind enemy lines preparing to blow up a bridge. One of Hemingway's longest and most politically engaged novels.

United States 1940

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