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A war novel or military fiction is a novel about war. It is a novel in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting (or home front), where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, suffering the effects of, or recovering from war. Many war novels are historical novels.
A warnovel or military fiction is a novel about war. It is a novel in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting...
not conform to standards and hence hesitated to classify War and Peace, saying it is "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle...
canon adult novel was Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller, published in September 2014. This is a list of original novels, novel adaptations...
Paulsen's New York Times obituary, Hatchet (1987), is probably his best-known novel. Other well known works include Dogsong (1985) and The Winter Room (1989)...
The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting...
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Record of Lodoss War (Japanese: ロードス島戦記, Hepburn: Rōdosu-tō Senki, lit. "Lodoss Island War Chronicle") is a franchise of fantasy novels by Ryo Mizuno based...
Fate of the Jedi is a series of nine science-fiction novels set in the Star Wars universe. The series is written in three cycles by the authors Aaron...
to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military...
published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was...
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