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/lit/, what are some great novels set in a war?

>> No.4162895

red badge of courage

>> No.4162894

Lord of the rings.

>> No.4162900

>>4162890
Iliad
Odyssey
Aineid
War and Peace
Your mother is a great slut; the greatest.

>> No.4162904

A Farewell to Arms

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>> No.4162913

game of thrones

>> No.4162920

I just want to clarify for the record that my LotR post was not a joke. I was dead serious.

>> No.4162974

Slaughterhouse-Five

>> No.4162976

Read the memoirs "A Penalty Strike" for something non-fiction, about a commander in a Soviet WW2 Penal Batallion.

>> No.4162995

>>4162890
What is that picture?

>this thread
>no ALL Quiet On The Wstern Front
>do you even literature?

>> No.4162998

>>4162995
The only one little problem with All Quiet On The Western Front is that it's shitty.

>> No.4162997

>>4162894
>>4162913
>>4162974

Read these already, thanks.

How does The Odyssey and The Iliad read, though? I've never attempted them, even though I've always meant to. Is it a difficult, slow read?

>> No.4163004

>>4162904
this

>> No.4163012

Catch-22

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4163013

Catch 22

>> No.4163011

>>4162998
yeah nah ur a cunt

>> No.4163014

>>4162995

Victory Day memorial at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.

>> No.4163027

>>4162976
Thanks for the tip, i love everything about penal battalion. There was also a Russian tv series called Penal Battalion, which was pretty realistic and didn't glorify commies.

>> No.4163031

>>4163014
Pardon?

>> No.4163033

>>4163011
I don't want to read books about war from someone who didn't even fight in one. For me Storm of Steel is much more valuable book, and it was written by someone who actually fought in war.

>> No.4163049

>>4163033

you dumb, man? Remarque fought and was heavily wounded.

>>4162890

for whom the bell tolls

>> No.4163060

>>4163033
You don't know what you're talking about. Remarque fought several years during WW1. Maybe you despise him because he remained a human being, unlike Junger who went full fascist.

>> No.4163064

-A Long, Long Way

-The Things They Carried

>> No.4163074

>>4163031
You asked what the picture in the OP was... That's what it was. A veteran at the Victory Day memorial at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow.

>> No.4163077

>>4163074
Oh sorry.Thankyou for the reply

>> No.4163086

Dispatches by Michael Herr

>> No.4163093

>>4163060
>junger
>fascist

More like old fashioned conservative nationalist (Stirnerist, lel).

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4163097

Not sure if it's been said yet, but obligatory (and my favorite)

>> No.4163109

>>4163049
>>4163060

Quote: "During high
school he took courses to prepare him to
be a teacher, and it was from high school,
in 1916, that he was drafted to serve in
World War I. Remarque never saw action at
the front, but he was injured slightly when
a British shell exploded behind the lines.
He spent most of the war recovering from
his wounds in a hospital and was sent back
into service just days before the war
ended. Following the war, Remarque often
appeared with war medals on his fancy
clothes (he loved to dress well); many of
his acquaintances questioned whether he
had earned the medals."

I didn't say i agree with Junger, i said that a book written by someone who was at the front is more valuable to me. Yeah i agree that war is bad, everyone does, but i read to learn new things and to read a book from men who have that first-hand experience of war is very interesting. And there is a big difference between a front soldier and a guy from the kitchen or a typewriter man.

>> No.4163143

>>4163109

Thanks for the redpill. But one doesn't have to actually take part in hostilities to be able to write about them. He was in a hospital for some time, so maybe he saw the types of injuries or heard the stories of other soldiers.

>> No.4163155

>>4163143
Yeah, you are right i was too harsh. I have nothing against Remarque - he sure as hell had more hardship than me - but i just don't like his writing style, that's all.

>> No.4163159

Journey to the End of the Night

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this.

>> No.4163173

For Whom the Bell Tolls. It gives you the real feeling of modern warfare, there's no honor, no respect, and nearly nothing good about it. It's sad, it gives you depression.

>> No.4163175

a long long way - sebastian barry

>> No.4163235

Memoirs of an Infantry officer - Siegfried Sassoon
Part of a semi-autobiographical trilogy, but you could read this as a stand-alone, I think.

Also, people saying Remarque, The Way Back is also worth a look, which is about the German army just prior to the Armistice, so it's like a spiritual sequel to AQTWF

>> No.4163244

>>4163235

Also, Le Feu/Under Fire by Henri Barbusse, which is a novel based on, I believe, the author's experiences (even though I understand he was drafted back out of active service because he was tubercular)

It's like a French All Quiet.

>> No.4163249

War and Peace
Life and Fate