Select Bibliography of War Literature

My War: Killing Time In Iraq by Colby Buzzell (Iraq)

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane (novel-Civil War)
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce (shory stories-Civil War)
Rumors of War by Philip Caputo (novel-Vietnam)
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford (memoir-Iraq)
*The Balkan Express by Slavenka Drakulic (essays-Bosnia-Herzegovina)
*S by Slavenka Drakulic (novel-Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior’s Journey , by Philip H. Red Eagle (Viet Nam)
*You Know When the Men Are Gone by Sibhan Fallon (Iraq)
Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos (novel-WWI)
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip (novel-Vietnam)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (novel-WWII)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (novel-WWI)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Rainier Marie Remarque (WWI)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (novel-Spanish Civil War)
Dispatches by Michael Herr (novel-Vietnam)
Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann (novel-Vietnam)
*The Backwash of War as Witnessed by an American Nurse Ellen LaMotte
(WWI)
*In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason (novel-Vietnam)
Chickenhawk by Robert Mason (memoir-Vietnam)
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (novel-Vietnam)
What It is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes (essay-Vietnam)
The Quiet American by Graham Green (novel-Vietnam)
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (novel-Vietnam)
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien (novel-Vietnam)
No-No Boy by John Okada (WW II)
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy (short stories-Iraq)
Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl (memoir-WWII)
*Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War by Agate Nesaule (memoir-WWII)
*Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy (novel-WWII)
*Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (novel-Korea)
Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone (novel-Vietnam)
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War by Anthony Swofford (memoir-Gulf War)
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (memoir-WWI)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnnegut (novel-WWII)
*Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf (essays-WWI)
Generation Kill by Evan Wright (non-fiction-Iraq)
The Long Walk by Brian Castner (memoir-Iraq)
*Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams
Yellow Feathers by Kevin Powers (novel-Iraq)
*Home Before Morning: the Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
Background Reading:

Writing War: A Guide to Telling Your Own Story by Ron Capps (2011)
Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and The High-and-Tight: Gender, Folklore, and
Changing Military Culture by Carol Burke (2004)
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S.
Troops and Their Families, edited by Andrew Carroll (2004)
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by Kirsten Holmstedt (2007)
Once a Warrior--Always a Warrior: Navigating the Transition from Combat to Home
by Charles Hoge M.D. (2010)
An Operators Manual for Combat PTSD by Ashley Hart (2000)
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program by Peter Levine, Ph.D. (2005)
Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. (1997)
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence by Judith Herman, M.D. (1997)
Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body by David Emerson and
Elizabeth Hopper (2011)
Writing As A Way of Healing, by Louise DeSalvo (2000)
The Lonely Soldier by Helen Benedict (2010)
Recovering from the War by Robert C Mason and Patience H. Mason (1998)

A few sites for those interested in writing about war and being part of a creative
community:

1. The Warrior Writers Project: http://www.warriorwriters.org/about.html

2. Veterans Writing Project: http://veteranswriting.org/ and http://o-dark-
thirty.org/ (their literary journal),
3. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (an 80 minute
documentary)
4. Also http://www.soldiersheart.net/resources/books.shtml .