There is great, enduring war literature for every generation. Some of the best include:
• The Iliad by Homer: Greek war in the Bronze Age; poetry
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu: ancient Chinese military treatise
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Franco-Russian War; novel
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane: American Civil War; novel
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque: World War I; novel
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway: Spanish Civil War; novel
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller: World War II; satire
• M.A.S.H. by H. Richard Hornberger (pen name Richard Hooker): Korean War; novel
• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien: Vietnam War; fiction, short stories
• Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden: Somalia; nonfiction
• The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway: Bosnian-Serbian War; novel
• The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell by John Crawford: Gulf War; memoir
• Behind the Lines Edited by Andrew Carroll: non-fiction letters