The Hunters

6 best books like The Hunters (James Salter): Under Fire, Airships, Undertones of War, The Long Take, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan, The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Under Fire

Author	Henri Barbusse
ISBN	0143039040

Based on his own experience of the Great War, Henri Barbusse's novel is a powerful account of one of the greatest horrors mankind has ever inflicted on itself.

For the group of ordinary men in the French Sixth Battalion, thrown together from all over France and longing for home, war is simply...

Airships

Author	Barry Hannah
ISBN	0802133886

Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South — a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg...

Undertones of War

Author	Edmund Blunden
ISBN	0141184361

In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. Blunden took part in the disastrous battles of the Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele, describing the latter as...

The Long Take

Author	Robin Robertson
ISBN	1509846883

Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity...

Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan

Author	A.C. Grayling
ISBN	0802714714

When Nuremberg was scouted in 1945 as a possible site for the Nazi war crime trials, an American damage survey of Germany described it as being "among the dead cities" of that country, for it was 90% destroyed, its population decimated, its facilities lost. As a place to put Nazis on trial, it symbolized...

The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

Author	Violette Leduc
ISBN	0720612179

I am on the side of light hearts and light wallets; look over here, you too can be made of light. I never gave anything away, I deserve to be where I am.

Eleanor Rigby versus the Piano Man. The old man in Home Alone versus the bird lady in Home Alone 2. There is sentiment without being sentimental. To...