Attention Quote by Pat Barker

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's…

— George Packer

“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

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

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

“books about the war, if any, were written from the perspective of a 14 year old German boy who was drafted to fight for…

— Horst Christian

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to…

— Sasa Stanisic

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years'…

— Stephen Jay Gould

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy…

— George R. R. Martin

“many words. "Sun Tzu's 13 Chapters and Wu Ch'i's Art of War are the two books that people commonly refer to on the subject…

— Sun Tzu