War Book Summaries

Under Fire Summary
Under Fire
by Henri Barbusse 2004 318 pages
3.85
2.3K ratings
War
World War I
Classics
Iron Will Summary
Iron Will
by James Maxwell 2018 411 pages
4.46
5.0K ratings
Fantasy
Amazon
Dragons
Brotherless Night Summary
Brotherless Night
by V.V. Ganeshananthan 2023 348 pages
4.45
16.9K ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Book Club
Blood and Iron Summary
Blood and Iron
The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918
by Katja Hoyer 2021 256 pages
4.15
3.4K ratings
History
Germany
European History
Tonight is Already Tomorrow Summary
Tonight is Already Tomorrow
by Lia Levi 2018 224 pages
3.50
444 ratings
Historical Fiction
Italian Literature
World War II
The Memory Box Summary
The Memory Box
by Kathryn Hughes 2021 430 pages
4.48
15.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Historical
A View Across the Rooftops Summary
A View Across the Rooftops
by Suzanne Kelman 2019 398 pages
4.43
11.1K ratings
Historical Fiction
World War II
Historical
Corelli’s Mandolin Summary
Corelli’s Mandolin
by Louis de Bernières 1995 437 pages
4.03
92.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Classics
Deep Undercover Summary
Deep Undercover
My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America
by Jack Barsky 2017 352 pages
4.08
2.7K ratings
History
Biography
Espionage
L'eroe di Trafalgar Summary
L'eroe di Trafalgar
by Bernard Cornwell 2000 425 pages
4.14
14.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
War
One Good Thing Summary
One Good Thing
by Georgia Hunter 2025 432 pages
4.27
9.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
World War II
Italy
Déogratias Summary
Déogratias
by Jean-Philippe Stassen 2000 80 pages
3.47
1.4K ratings
Graphic Novels
Comics
Historical Fiction
Family of Spies Summary
Family of Spies
by Christine Kuehn 2025 272 pages
4.3
1.8K ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
The Buried World Summary
The Buried World
by Jeff Wheeler 2020 336 pages
4.33
4.6K ratings
Fantasy
Dragons
Young Adult
Blood Money Summary
Blood Money
Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans
by Peter Schweizer 2024 316 pages
4.35
1.2K ratings
Politics
China
History
Ali and Nino Summary
Ali and Nino
by Kurban Said 2000 282 pages
3.92
9.7K ratings
Historical Fiction
Romance
Classics
1916 Summary
1916
A Novel of the Irish Rebellion
by Morgan Llywelyn 1999 576 pages
4.08
4.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Ireland
Irish Literature
The Handbook of 5GW Summary
The Handbook of 5GW
A Fifth Generation of War?
by Daniel H. Abbott 2010 208 pages
4.05
22 ratings
War
Booth Summary
Booth
by Karen Joy Fowler 2022 470 pages
3.83
15.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Civil War
No Ballet Shoes in Syria Summary
No Ballet Shoes in Syria
by Catherine Bruton 2019 268 pages
4.4
2.2K ratings
Middle Grade
Contemporary
Childrens
Hitler Summary
Hitler
1889-1936 Hubris
by Ian Kershaw 2000 845 pages
4.17
6.9K ratings
History
Biography
World War II
The Things We Cannot Say Summary
The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer 2019 448 pages
4.54
263.5K ratings
Historical Fiction
Book Club
World War II
The Art Spy Summary
The Art Spy
The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
by Michelle Young 2025 390 pages
4.1
1.8K ratings
History
Art
Biography
The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz Summary
The Girl Who Escaped from Auschwitz
by Ellie Midwood 2021 334 pages
4.45
11.6K ratings
Historical Fiction
Holocaust
World War II
The Brothers Summary
The Brothers
John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
by Stephen Kinzer 2013 416 pages
4.14
4.4K ratings
History
Biography
Politics
The Last Year of the War Summary
The Last Year of the War
by Susan Meissner 2019 389 pages
4.21
22.5K ratings
Historical Fiction
World War II
Historical
The Severed Realm Summary
The Severed Realm
by Michael G. Manning 2018 357 pages
4.5
1.3K ratings
Fantasy
Magic
Wizards
The Wages of Destruction Summary
The Wages of Destruction
The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
by Adam Tooze 2007 802 pages
4.54
3.1K ratings
History
Economics
World War II
The Great Leveler Summary
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pages
3.81
1.6K ratings
History
Economics
Politics
Cabo Trafalgar Summary
Cabo Trafalgar
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2004 304 pages
3.77
2.8K ratings
Historical Fiction
Spanish Literature
Spain
Asperger's Children Summary
Asperger's Children
The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
by Edith Sheffer 2018 320 pages
3.82
2.0K ratings
History
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Psychology
Code Warriors Summary
Code Warriors
NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
by Stephen Budiansky 2016 416 pages
3.72
751 ratings
History
Espionage
Politics
History of the Peloponnesian War Summary
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides 1972 648 pages
3.94
40.6K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Strangers in Time Summary
Strangers in Time
by David Baldacci 2025 435 pages
4.15
45.2K ratings
Historical Fiction
Mystery
World War II
Hidden Knights Summary
Hidden Knights
by Jennifer Anne Davis 2020
4.04
1.5K ratings
Fantasy
Romance
Young Adult
Endling Summary
Endling
by Maria Reva 2025 352 pages
3.89
8.4K ratings
Literary Fiction
Ukraine
Contemporary
The South Was Right! Summary
The South Was Right!
by James Ronald Kennedy 1994 431 pages
3.95
474 ratings
History
Civil War
American History
Science of Coercion Summary
Science of Coercion
Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960
by Christopher Simpson 1994 224 pages
4.09
87 ratings
History
Psychology
Politics
The Truce at Bakura Summary
The Truce at Bakura
by Kathy Tyers 1994 341 pages
3.46
14.2K ratings
Star Wars
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Legacy of Ashes Summary
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner 2007 514 pages
3.95
15.2K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Keeper of Lost Children Summary
Immersive
Keeper of Lost Children
by Sadeqa Johnson 2026 464 pages
4.51
2.0K ratings
Historical Fiction
Historical
Race
The Fifth Domain Summary
The Fifth Domain
Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by Richard A. Clarke 2019 352 pages
4.02
809 ratings
Technology
Politics
History
The Conquest of Gaul Summary
The Conquest of Gaul
by Gaius Julius Caesar 1983 269 pages
4.02
13.5K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
The Sleepwalkers Summary
The Sleepwalkers
How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark 2012 706 pages
4.24
14.2K ratings
History
World War I
War
Arsenals of Folly Summary
Arsenals of Folly
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
by Richard Rhodes 2007 400 pages
3.96
844 ratings
History
Science
Politics
Wars and Capital (Semiotext Summary
Wars and Capital (Semiotext
by Éric Alliez 2018 453 pages
3.89
27 ratings
Philosophy
War
Politics
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot Summary
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
by James B. Stockdale 1995 241 pages
4.11
627 ratings
Philosophy
History
Biography
Star Wars Summary
Star Wars
Jedi Search
by Kevin J. Anderson 1994 355 pages
3.68
18.4K ratings
Star Wars
Science Fiction
Fantasy
The Thousand Names Summary
The Thousand Names
by Django Wexler 2013 513 pages
4.04
20.5K ratings
Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
High Fantasy
Day Of Deceit Summary
Day Of Deceit
The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett 1999 416 pages
3.68
489 ratings
History
World War II
War
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