Defending his flag: or, A boy in blue and a boy in grey

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The novel is a historical fiction set against the turbulence of the French Revolution and its echo in…

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

The war of the worlds

H. G. Wells

The novel is a science‑fiction war story that begins with a sweeping meditation on humanity’s complacency at…

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan

The novel opens on a weary British officer returning from the Western Front, his mind a tangle of medals,…

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston

The Long Roll is a sprawling Civil‑War narrative that opens amid a bustling Southern town on the eve of…