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World War II gave rise to a new boom in contemporary war novels. Unlike World War I novels, a European-dominated genre, World War II novels were produced in the greatest numbers by American writers, who made war in the air, on the sea, and in key theatres such as the Pacific Ocean and Asia integral to the war novel.
The 5th Wave, based on the novel series of the same name. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) The Tomorrow War (2021) Titan A.E. (2000) Transformers film series (2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2017) Terminator Salvation (2009) Vexille (2007) War of the Worlds (2005)
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal praised the book's characters, especially their inner conflicts about the war and its origins. [4] [5] The New York Journal of Books was also positive, with the reviewer directing praise at the prose for being technically accurate while still being entertaining. [6]
Winston Churchill – The River War, The Gathering Storm; Robert M. Citino – German Way of War, Quest for Decisive Victory, Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942, Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943; Tom Clancy – Rainbow Six, Splinter Cell, Net Force; Carl von Clausewitz – military ...
Pacific War series Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen: Alternate Pacific War. Pearl Harbor: A Novel of 8 December (2007) Days of Infamy (2008) Destroyermen series Taylor Anderson: In the midst of World War II, an old battered four stacker and its Japanese enemy is swept through a storm and finds itself on a version of Earth where humans had ...
The Axis of Time trilogy is an alternative history series of novels written by Australian journalist and author John Birmingham, from Macmillan Publishing. [1] [2] [3]The novels deal with the radical alteration of the history of World War II and the socio-historical changes that result when a technologically advanced naval task force from the year 2021 is accidentally transported back through ...
Red Storm Rising is a war novel, written by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond, [a] and released on August 7, 1986. Set in the mid-1980s, it features a Third World War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact forces, and is notable for depicting the conflict as being fought exclusively with conventional weapons, rather than escalating to the use of weapons of mass destruction or ...
He went on to write a number of detective novels; Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier; Robert A. Heinlein, Lt., graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Served in U.S. Navy aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Roper (DD-147), Philadelphia Navy Yard (Stranger in a Strange Land) Joseph Heller, served in 12th Air Force