List of books with anti-war themes

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An anti-war book is a book that is perceived as having an anti-war theme.

Some books that are often thought of as anti-war books are:

• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic autobiography
• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel
• Celestial Matters - Richard Garfinkle science fiction novel
• Company K - William March
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman science fiction novel
• From Here to Eternity - James Jones novel
• Generals Die in Bed - Charles Yale Harrison novel
• The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hašek novel
• Hiroshima - John Hersey novel
• Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
• Lay Down Your Arms! - Bertha von Suttner
• Lysistrata - Aristophanes
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer novel
• On the Beach - Nevil Shute
• Passport to Hell - Robin Hyde novel
• A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
• Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present - S. Daniel Abraham, Bill Clinton
• Plumes - Laurence Stallings
• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
• Scapegoats of the Empire - Lt. George Witton
• The Short-Timers - Gustav Hasford novel
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel
• Shabdangal (1947) - Malayalam novel
• The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
• The Thin Red Line - James Jones' novel
• The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich), 1949 - novel by Heinrich Böll
• Two Women (1958) - Alberto Moravia
• The War Prayer - Mark Twain
• War Is a Racket - Smedley Butler
• We Will Not Cease - Archibald Baxter (with e-Text)