Undertones of War
9 best books like Undertones of War (Edmund Blunden): The Periodic Table, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, Goodbye to All That, Under Fire, The Good Soldiers, The Long Take, The Hunters, 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
| Author | Primo Levi |
| ISBN | 0805210415 |
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection tells of the author's experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist before, during, and after Auschwitz in luminous, clear, and unfailingly...
| Author | Siegfried Sassoon |
| ISBN | 1931313814 |
”I, single human being with my little stock of earthly experience in my head, was entering once again the veritable gloom and disaster of the thing called Armageddon. And I saw it then as I see it now---a dreadful place, a place of horror and desolation which no imagination could have invented. Also...
An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy, published in Penguin Modern Classics.
In 1929 Robert Graves went...
| 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...
| Author | David Finkel |
| ISBN | 0374165734 |
It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told...
| 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...
| Author | James Salter |
| ISBN | 0375703926 |
With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956 --James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist since Hemingway. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare.
Captain Cleve...
| 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...
