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
2032 In Parenthesis David Jones 1937 British English
2360 August 1914 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1971 Russian Russian
2550 Her Privates We Frederic Manning 1929 Australian English
2614 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Grant 1885 American English
2814 La Débâcle Émile Zola 1892 French French
3408 The Manila Rope Veijo Meri 1957 Finnish Finnish
3496 The Thin Red Line James Jones 1962 American English
3637 And where Were You, Adam? Heinrich Böll 1951 German German
3637 War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Sassoon 1919 British English
3954 Life In The Tomb Stratis Myrivilis 1924 Greek Greek
4166 Confederates Thomas Keneally 1979 Australian English
4167 Vasili Tyorkin Alexander Tvardovsky 1943 Russian Russian
4310 Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1921 American English
4412 Sharpe's Eagle Bernard Cornwell 1981 British English
4444 A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry 2005 Irish English
4468 Covenant With Death John Harris 1961 British English
4495 Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1888 British English
5002 The Bamboo Bed William Eastlake 1969 American English
5042 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden 1999 American English
7116 Malvinas Requiem Fogwill 1983 Argentine Spanish
7122 Generation Kill Evan Wright 2004 American English
7216 Collected Poems Isaac Rosenberg 1937 British English
7878 Forever Peace Joe Haldeman 1997 American English
7911 Poems Of Keith Douglas Keith Douglas 1951 British English
9263 The Yellow Birds Kevin Powers 2012 American English
9378 In The Midst Of Life Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
9754 800 Horseman Col Stringer 1987 Australian English
10422 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
10616 Verdun Jules Romains 1938 French French
11113 The Healer's War Elizabeth Ann Scarborough 1988 American English
11335 The French Art Of War Alexis Jenni 2011 French French
11547 The Romance Of War James Grant 1846 Scottish English
11663 The Good Soldiers David Finkel 2009 American English
12031 Fighting Mc Kenzie Anzac Chaplain Col Stringer 2002 Australian English
13229 Gardens Of The Moon Steven Erikson 1999 Canadian English
13566 Old Man's War John Scalzi 2005 American English
14899 The Longest Day Cornelius Ryan 1959 American English
14985 The March E. L. Doctorow 2005 American English
14985 A Stillness at Appomattox Bruce Catton 1953 American English
14985 Armor John Steakley 1984 American English
15676 Through The Wheat Thomas Boyd 1923 American English
17164 An Army at Dawn Rick Atkinson 2002 American English
17164 Thank You For Your Service David Finkel 2013 American English
16809 The First Day On The Somme Martin Middlebrook 1971 British English
17164 Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty John W. DeForest 1867 American English
17164 Ocean Of Words Ha Jin 1996 American English
17164 Zinky Boys Svetlana Alexievich 1989 Belarusian Russian
17164 Band Of Brothers Stephen E. Ambrose 1992 American English
17164 To The Last Man Jeff Shaara 2004 American English