Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting, quoted in every boardroom.
A girl joins an army where every soldier has a secret; Pratchett on war.
Michael Herr's Vietnam, in the language the soldiers used; the best book about that war.
Sacco in a Bosnian enclave during the war; the second reportage comic.
The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.
T. E. Lawrence's own account of the Arab Revolt.
Soldiers return from each battle to an Earth centuries older; Haldeman's Vietnam in space.
Mobile infantry against the Bugs and a lecture on citizenship; Verhoeven turned it inside out.
Warlords, strategists and the fall of the Han; the Chinese epic every game borrows.
The Biafran war through twins, a houseboy and an Englishman.
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.
Bardamu through the war, colonial Africa, Detroit and the Paris suburbs; Celine's furious slang.
V-2 rockets, a lieutenant whose erections predict strikes and the end of the war; Pynchon's monster.
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time between Dresden and Tralfamadore; so it goes.
Three days with guerrillas to blow a bridge in the Spanish Civil War.
Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.
Paul Baumer and his classmates in the trenches; the German novel of the First World War.
Yossarian wants out of the war but only the sane ask, and asking proves you are sane; Heller's loop.
An idiot, or a genius, in the Austro-Hungarian army; the funniest book about a war.
Fifty days of the Trojan War, the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector; the first book of the West.
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