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“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it, until his…

— Ali Smith

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

“The literature of war and its strategies is poverty-stricken. Of all the men who have written on the subject of war, I think that…

— J.C. Wylie

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during…

— Ernest Hemingway

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight their battles…

— John Keegan

“They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone’s pick to be the top…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a…

— Pat Barker

“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?”

— Jo Nesbø

“They say the German soldiers fight blindly, with only such knowledge of their objectives as is absolutely necessary to send them forward. We believe…

— Albertus Wright Catlin

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a…

— Ann Widdecombe

I am well versed in reading the pages of war.

— Janusz Korczak