War Stories

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is an epic novel set in early 19th-century Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul.

An American lieutenant who witnesses World War I, and loves an English nurse.

An American journalist living in Paris, is part of a circle of disillusioned expatriates.

A handsome, intelligent, and egotistical young man as he comes of age in early 20th-century America.