The Greatest Books of All Time on Soldiers

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
86 All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 German German
535 Red Cavalry Isaac Babel 1926 Russian Russian
552 The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 American English
1269 The Unknown Soldier Väinö Linna 1954 Finnish Finnish
1570 The Young Lions Irwin Shaw 1948 American English
1621 Good-Bye to All That Robert Graves 1929 British English
2031 In Parenthesis David Jones 1937 British English
2358 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
2547 Her Privates We Frederic Manning 1929 Australian English
2612 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
2813 La Débâcle Émile Zola 1892 French French
3409 The Manila Rope Veijo Meri 1957 Finnish Finnish
3497 The Thin Red Line James Jones 1962 American English
3638 And where Were You, Adam? Heinrich Böll 1951 German German
3638 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English
3953 Life In The Tomb Stratis Myrivilis 1924 Greek Greek
4165 Confederates Thomas Keneally 1979 Australian English
4166 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
4309 Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1921 American English
4411 Sharpe's Eagle Bernard Cornwell 1981 British English
4443 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4467 Covenant With Death John Harris 1961 British English
4494 Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
4999 The Bamboo Bed William Eastlake 1969 American English
5039 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden 1999 American English
7116 Malvinas Requiem Fogwill 1983 Argentine Spanish
7122 Generation Kill Evan Wright 2004 American English
7215 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7877 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7910 Poems Of Keith Douglas Keith Douglas 1951 British English
9261 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9375 In The Midst Of Life Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
9750 800 Horseman Col Stringer 1987 Australian English
10418 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
10612 Verdun Jules Romains 1938 French French
11108 The Healer's War Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 1988 American English
11330 The French Art Of War Alexis Jenni 2011 French French
11544 The Romance Of War James Grant 1846 Scottish English
11660 The Good Soldiers David Finkel 2009 American English
12029 Fighting Mc Kenzie Anzac Chaplain Col Stringer 2002 Australian English
13226 Gardens Of The Moon Steven Erikson 1999 Canadian English
13565 Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005 American English
14897 The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan 1959 American English
14984 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14984 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton 1953 American English
15670 Through The Wheat Thomas Boyd 1923 American English
17120 An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson 2002 American English
17120 Armor John Steakley 1984 American English
17120 Thank You For Your Service David Finkel 2013 American English
16769 The First Day On The Somme Martin Middlebrook 1971 British English
17120 Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty John W. DeForest 1867 American English
17120 Ocean Of Words Ha Jin 1996 American English
17120 Zinky Boys Svetlana Alexievich 1989 Belarusian Russian
17120 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17120 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English