War

Homer

The Iliad (around eighth century BC)

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (1863–9)

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

Jaroslav Hašek

The Good Soldier Švejk (1921–3)

Ford Madox Ford

Parade's End (1924–8)

Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front (1931)

V. M. Yeates

Winged Victory (1934)

Elizabeth Bowen

The Heat of the Day (1949)

Evelyn Waugh

Sword of Honour trilogy (1952–61)

Joseph Heller

Catch-22 (1961)

James Jones

The Thin Red Line (1963)

Pat Barker

Regeneration trilogy (1991–5)