Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments. Not all of these books have a direct connection to any particular anti-war movement. The list includes fiction and non-fiction, and books for children and younger readers.

Fiction

* ''All Men Are Enemies'' – Richard Aldington * ''A Soldier's Quartet'' - Colin Baldwin, 2021, Shawline Publishing ("A brilliant read..."), novel based on true events in WWI and 100 years later (see https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59082674-a-soldier-s-quartet) * ''Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson'' – George I. Gurdjieff, 1949 * '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' –

Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (, ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World ...

, 1928 * '' The Americanization of Emily'' – William Bradford Huie, 1964 * ''Ashe of Rings'' –

Mary Butts Mary Francis Butts, (13 December 1890 – 5 March 1937) also Mary Rodker by marriage, was an English modernist writer. Her work found recognition in literary magazines such as '' The Bookman'' and ''The Little Review'', as well as from fellow mo ...

novel, 1926 * ''Bid Me To Live'' – H.D. novel, 1960 * ''Captain Jinks, Hero'' – Ernest Crosby, 1902 * ''

Catch-22 ''Catch-22'' is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-ch ...

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Joseph Heller Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is the 1961 novel ''Catch-22'', a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for ...

, 1961 * ''

Cat's Cradle Cat's cradle is a game involving the creation of various string figures between the fingers, either individually or by passing a loop of string back and forth between two or more players. The true origin of the name is debated, though the fir ...

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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and ...

science fiction novel * '' Celestial Matters'' – Richard Garfinkle science fiction novel * '' Company K'' –

William March William March (September 18, 1893 – May 15, 1954) was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by ...

novel * ''Dead Yesterday'' – Mary Agnes Hamilton novel, 1916Vincent B. Sherry, ''The Cambridge companion to the literature of the First World War''. Cambridge University Press, 2005 (p.102) * '' Death Of A Hero'' – Richard Aldington * ''Despised and Rejected'' – Rose Allatini novel (published under the name A. T. Fitzroy) 1918 * ''

A Fable ''A Fable'' is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time". It won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nat ...

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William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most o ...

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The Empty Drum "The Empty Drum: A Russian Folk Tale Retold by Leo Tolstoy" (''"Работник Емельян и пустой барабан"'') is a short story by Leo Tolstoy published in 1891. According to Aylmer Maude, famous Tolstoy translator, it was orig ...

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Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

, 1887 * '' A Farewell to Arms'' –

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...

, 1929 * ''

For Whom the Bell Tolls ''For Whom the Bell Tolls'' is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned ...

'' – Ernest Hemingway, 1940 * '' The Forever War'' –

Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his novel '' The Forever War'' (1974). That novel and other works, including '' The Hemingway Hoax'' (1991) and '' Forever Peace'' (1997), hav ...

science fiction novel * ''

From Here to Eternity ''From Here to Eternity'' is a 1953 American drama romance war film directed by Fred Zinnemann, and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel of the same name by James Jones. The picture deals with the tribulations of three U.S. A ...

'' – James Jones novel * '' Generals Die in Bed'' – Charles Yale Harrison novel * '' The Good Soldier Svejk'' –

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical inc ...

novel * ''Involution & Evolution'' – Joss Sheldon novel * ''

Johnny Got His Gun ''Johnny Got His Gun'' is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. A 1971 fi ...

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Dalton Trumbo James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter who scripted many award-winning films, including ''Roman Holiday'' (1953), ''Exodus'', ''Spartacus'' (both 1960), and ''Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo'' (1944) ...

novel, 1938 * '' Journey to the End of the Night'' –

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the '' Pr ...

novel * '' Lay Down Your Arms!'' – Bertha von Suttner novel * ''Looking Good'' – Keith Maillard novel * ''Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes'' – Keith Maillard novel * ''

Lysistrata ''Lysistrata'' ( or ; Attic Greek: , ''Lysistrátē'', "Army Disbander") is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC. It is a comic account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponne ...

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Aristophanes Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion ( la, Cydathenaeum), was a comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his for ...

play, 411 BCE * '' The Naked and the Dead'' – Norman Mailer novel * ''Non-Combatants and Others'' –

Rose Macaulay Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, (1 August 1881 – 30 October 1958) was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel '' The Towers of Trebizond'', about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritu ...

novel, 1916 * '' Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War'' – Evadne Price (as Helen Zenna Smith) novel, 1930 * '' On the Beach'' –

Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name, in order to protect ...

novel * ''

The Once and Future King ''The Once and Future King'' is a collection of fantasy novels by T. H. White about the legend of King Arthur. It is loosely based upon the 1485 work ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' by Sir Thomas Malory. It was first published in 1958 as a collection ...

'' – T. H. White, 1958 * ''Quiet Ways'' – Katharine Burdekin novel, 1930 * ''

The Red Badge of Courage ''The Red Badge of Courage'' is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Ove ...

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Stephen Crane Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism an ...

novel, 1895 * '' Regeneration'' –

Pat Barker Patricia Mary W. Barker, (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and pl ...

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Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 2 ...

novel, 1947 * '' The Short-Timers'' –

Gustav Hasford Jerry Gustave Hasford (November 28, 1947 – January 29, 1993), also known under his pen name Gustav Hasford was an American novelist, journalist and poet. His semi-autobiographical novel '' The Short-Timers'' (1979) was the basis of the film ...

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Slaughterhouse Five ''Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death'' is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life and experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to h ...

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science fiction novel * ''

The Sorrow of War ''The Sorrow of War'' ( vi, Nỗi buồn chiến tranh) is a 1991 novel by the Vietnamese writer Bảo Ninh. The novel was Ninh's graduation project at the Nguyen Du Writing School in Hanoi. It tells the story of a soldier who is collecting dead ...

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Bảo Ninh Hoàng Ấu Phương, also known by the pen name Bảo Ninh (born 18 October 1952), is a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and writer of short stories, best known for his first novel, published in English as ''The Sorrow of War''. Vietnam war Ninh r ...

novel, 1990 * '' The Thin Red Line'' – James Jones novel, 1962 * ''

The Things They Carried ''The Things They Carried'' (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his ex ...

'' – Tim O'Brien, 1990 * ''

Three Soldiers ''Three Soldiers'' is a 1921 novel by American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. Background H. L. Mencken praised the book in ...

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John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visit ...

novel, 1921, World War I * ''

The Tin Drum ''The Tin Drum'' (german: Die Blechtrommel, ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's ' ('' Danzig Trilogy''). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Bes ...

'' – Günter Grass novel * ''The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich)'' –

Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll is a recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972). ...

novel, 1949 * ''

Two Women ''Two Women'' ( it, La ciociara , rough literal translation "The Woman from Ciociaria") is a 1960 war drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini and De Sica, based on the novel of the same name by Alberto ...

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Alberto Moravia Alberto Moravia ( , ; born Alberto Pincherle ; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990) was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his de ...

novel, 1958 * '' Under Fire'' – Henri Barbusse novel, 1916 * '' The Unknown Soldier'' –

Väinö Linna Väinö Linna (; 20 December 1920 – 21 April 1992) was a Finnish author. He gained literary fame with his third novel, ''Tuntematon sotilas'' ( ''The Unknown Soldier'', published in 1954), and consolidated his position with the trilogy ''Tää ...

novel, 1954 * '' Voyage to Faremido'' – Frigyes Karinthy novel, 1916 *"War" - Ludwig Renn novel, 1928. *'' War Porn'' -

Roy Scranton Roy Scranton (born 1976) is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. His essays, journalism, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Dissent, LIT, Los Angeles Review of Books, ...

novel, 2016. * "

The War Prayer "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and ...

" – Mark Twain short story, c.1910 * ''

War with the Newts ''War with the Newts'' (''Válka s Mloky'' in the original Czech), also translated as ''Salamander Wars'', is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. It concerns the discovery in the Pacific of a sea-dwelling race, ...

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Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal ...

, novel 1936 * '' The Wars'' –

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Why Are We in Vietnam? ''Why Are We In Vietnam?'' (''WWVN'') is a 1967 novel by the American author Norman Mailer. It focuses on a hunting trip to the Brooks Range in Alaska where a young man is brought by his father, a wealthy businessman who works for a company that ...

'' – Norman Mailer novel, 1967 * ''Why Was I Killed?'' (retitled ''Return of the Traveller'' in the US) –

Rex Warner Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator. He is now probably best remembered for ''The Aerodrome'' (1941).Chris Hopkins, ''English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History'' Continuum Inte ...

novel, 1943

Non-fiction

* '' Addicted to War'' – Joel Andreas, 1991, 2002 *Old man at the Bridge - Ernest Miller Hemmingway May 1938 * ''An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era'' – Charles DeBenedetti, 1990 * ''

The Armies of the Night ''The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel/The Novel as History'' is a nonfiction novel recounting the October 1967 March on the Pentagon written by Norman Mailer and published by New American Library in 1968. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Ge ...

'' – Norman Mailer

non-fiction novel The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events woven together with fictitious conversations and uses the storytelling techniques of fiction. The non-fiction novel is an otherw ...

, 1968 * '' Autobiography:The Story of my Experiments with Truth'' – Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1927Robert A Seeley. "Further Reading", in ''The Handbook of non-violence, Including Aldous Huxley’s "An Encyclopedia of pacifism"''. Westport, Conn. : L. Hill; Great Neck, N.Y., Lakeville Press, 1986. (pp. 333-334). * ''The Bloody Traffic'' –

Fenner Brockway Archibald Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (1 November 1888 – 28 April 1988) was a British socialist politician, humanist campaigner and anti-war activist. Early life and career Brockway was born to W. G. Brockway and Frances Elizabeth Abbey in ...

, 1934Martin Ceadel,"Selected Bibliography", in ''Pacifism in Britain, 1914–1945 : the defining of a faith''. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1980. (pp. 323-333). * ''

Born on the Fourth of July ''Born on the Fourth of July'', published in 1976, is the best-selling autobiography by Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line ...

'' – Ron Kovic autobiography, 1976 * ''The Causes of World War Three'' –

C. Wright Mills Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American Sociology, sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills published widely in both popular and intellectual journ ...

, 1958 * ''Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience'' – Robert A. Seeley, 1994 * '' The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War'' –

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of St ...

, Carl Sagan and

Donald Kennedy Donald Kennedy (August 18, 1931 – April 21, 2020) was an American scientist, public administrator, and academic. He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1977–1979), President of Stanford University (1980– ...

, 1984 * ''Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians'' – Chris Hedges, 2008 * ''The Complaint of Peace'' –

Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...

, 1517Ben Lowe, ''Imagining peace: a history of early English pacifist ideas, 1340–1560''.Penn State Press, 1997 (pp. 163-64). * '' The Conduct of the Allies'' –

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dubl ...

, 1711 * ''The Conquest of Violence'' –

Bart de Ligt Bartholomeus de Ligt (17 July 1883 – 3 September 1938) was a Dutch anarcho-pacifist and antimilitarist. He is chiefly known for his support of conscientious objectors. Life and work Born on 17 July 1883 in Schalkwijk, Utrecht, his father was ...

, 1937 * ''Cry Havoc!'' – Beverley Nichols, 1933 * ''Disenchantment'' – C. E. Montague, 1922 * ''

The Education of a Christian Prince ''The Education of a Christian Prince'' ( la, Institutio principis Christiani) is a Renaissance "how-to" book for princes, by Desiderius Erasmus, which advises the reader on how to be a good Christian prince. The book was dedicated to Prince ...

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, 1516 * '' Einstein on Peace'' – edited by

Otto Nathan Otto Nathan (1893–1987) was an economist who taught at Princeton University (1933–35), New York University (1935–42), Vassar College (1942–44), and Howard University (1946-52). Nathan was a close friend of Albert Einstein for many years a ...

and Heinz Norden; preface by

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

, 1960 * '' Ends and Means'' –

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books, both novels and non-fiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxle ...

essays, 1937 * '' Fate of the Earth'' –

Jonathan Schell Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons. Personal Schell was born in New York City on August 2 ...

, 1982 * '' The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now'' –

, 1998 * ''

Good-Bye to All That ''Good-Bye to All That'' is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I ha ...

'' - Robert Graves, 1929 * '' Hiroshima'' –

John Hersey John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to n ...

account of the bombings, 1946 * '' Human Smoke'' –

Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist. His fiction generally de-emphasizes narrative in favor of careful description and characterization. His early novels such as ''The Mezzanine'' and ''Room Temperature'' we ...

* ''If the War Goes On …'' –

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', '' Steppenwolf'', '' Siddhartha'', and ''The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual's ...

, 1971 * '' In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter'' – Gordon C. Zahn, 1981 * ''The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War'' – Frederick Downs, 1978 * ''

The Kingdom of God is Within You ''The Kingdom of God Is Within You'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Царство Божие внутри вас, Tsárstvo Bózhiye vnutrí vas) is a non-fiction book written by Leo Tolstoy. A Christian anarchist philosophical trea ...

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, 1894 * '' The Inevitable Revolution'' – Leo Tolstoy, 1909 * '' Krieg dem Kriege'' aka ''War Against War'' – Ernst Friedrich, 1924 * ''The Long Road to Greenham: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820'' – Jill Liddington, 1989 * ''

Miami and the Siege of Chicago ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968'' is a non-fiction novel written by Norman Mailer which covers the Republican and Democratic national party political conventions of 19 ...

'' – Norman Mailer

, 1968 * ''New Cyneas'' – Émeric Crucé, 1623 * ''Newer Ideals of Peace'' –

Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage ...

, 1907 * ''No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran'' – Murray Polner, 1971 * ''Nonviolence: The history of a dangerous idea'' –

Mark Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky (December 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. He has written a number of books of fiction and non-fiction. His 1997 book, ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'' (1997), ...

, 2006 * '' Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe'' – Graham Allison, 2004 * '' Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero'' – edited by

Joseph Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became ...

, 1998 * ''Pacifism in Europe to 1914'',

Peter Brock Peter Geoffrey Brock (26 February 1945 – 8 September 2006), known as "Peter Perfect", "The King of the Mountain", or simply "Brocky", was an Australian motor racing driver. Brock was most often associated with Holden for almost 40 years, a ...

, 1972 * ''Pacifism in the Twentieth Century'' –

and Nigel Young, 1999 * ''Pacifism in the United States'' –

, 1968 * '' Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present'' – S. Daniel Abraham,

Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton ( né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agai ...

, 2006 * ''Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated'' – James Mann, editor, 2004 * ''Peace with Honour'' –

A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winni ...

, 1934 * '' A People's History of the United States'' –

Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a politica ...

, 1980 * '' Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch'' –

Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and ...

essay, 1795 * '' The Politics of Jesus'' –

John Howard Yoder John Howard Yoder (December 27, 1927 – December 30, 1997) was an American Mennonite theologian and ethicist best known for his defense of Christian pacifism. His most influential book was '' The Politics of Jesus'', which was first published in ...

, 1972 * ''The Power of Non-Violence'' – Richard B. Gregg, 1934 * ''The Root Is Man: Two Essays in Politics'' – Dwight Macdonald, 1953 * '' Scapegoats of the Empire'' – Lt. George Witton memoir, 1907 * '' Science, Liberty and Peace'' –

, 1946 * '' The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger'' –

, 2007 * ''The Struggle Against the Bomb 1 - One World or None: a history of the world nuclear disarmament movement through 1953'' – Lawrence S. Wittner, 1993"For clues about how to save the planet from nuclear extinction, there is no better place to turn than to Lawrence S. Wittner's monumental three-volume study of the world disarmament movement from 1945 to the present...His first volume, ''One World or None'', goes through 1953. Volume Two, ''Resisting the Bomb'', takes us from 1954 through 1970. And his third and final volume, ''Toward Nuclear Abolition'', just completed last year, brings it all up to the present". Matthew Rothschild, "Nuclear Alert", in ''

The Progressive ''The Progressive'' is a left-leaning American magazine and website covering politics and culture. Founded in 1909 by U.S. senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. and co-edited with his wife Belle Case La Follette, it was originally called ''La Follett ...

'', March 1, 2004. * ''The Struggle Against the Bomb 2 - Resisting the Bomb: a history of the world nuclear disarmament movement, 1954-1970'' – Lawrence S. Wittner, 1997 * ''The Struggle Against the Bomb 3 - Toward Nuclear Abolition: a history of the world nuclear disarmament movement, 1971 to the present'' – Lawrence S. Wittner, 2003 * '' Testament of Youth'' –

Vera Brittain Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir '' Testament of Youth'' recounted her experiences during the Fir ...

, 1933 * ''The Third Morality'' –

Gerald Heard Henry FitzGerald Heard (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a British-born American historian, science writer, public lecturer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and over 35 books. Heard was a g ...

, 1937 * ''

Three Guineas ''Three Guineas'' is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Background Although ''Three Guineas'' is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her ...

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Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born i ...

, 1938 * ''

Conscience for Change ''Conscience for Change'' is a book of transcribed lectures by Martin Luther King Jr. that includes five talks King gave in late 1967 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. First published by the CBC, the book was later repub ...

'', reprinted as ''The Trumpet of Conscience'' – (five transcribed lectures given by)

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

, 1968 * ''Voices Against War: A Century of Protest'' – Lyn Smith, 2009 * ''War and Democracy'' –

Paul Gottfried Paul Edward Gottfried (born November 21, 1941) is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, historian, and writer. He is a former Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is editor-in-chief of the paleocons ...

, 2012 * ''War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'' – Chris Hedges, 2003 * ''War Is a Lie'' – David Swanson, 2010 * ''

War Is a Racket ''War Is a Racket'' is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interest ...

'' – former

U.S. Marine The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through com ...

Major General

Smedley Butler Major general (United States), Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881June 21, 1940), nicknamed the "Maverick Marine", was a senior United States Marine Corps Officer (armed forces), officer who fought in the Philippine–American ...

speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935 * ''We Will Not Cease'' – Archibald Baxter memoir, 1939 * ''Which Way to Peace?'' –

, 1936 * ''White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb'' – L. Vance-Watkins and A. Mariko, eds., 1995 * ''Why Didn't You Have To Go To Vietnam, Daddy?'' – Steve Wilken, Starving Writers Publishing, 2009 * '' Why Men Fight'' –

, 1916 * ''Women, Power, and the Biology of Peace'' – Judith Hand, 2003 * ''Worthy of Gratitude? Why Veterans May Not Want to be Thanked for Their Service in War'' – Camillo Mac Bica, Gnosis Press, 2015 * ''Writings Against Power and Death'' –

Alex Comfort Alexander Comfort (10 February 1920 – 26 March 2000) was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist ...

, 1994

Anthologies of anti-war writing

* ''Instead of Violence: Writings by the Great Advocates of Peace and Nonviolence throughout History'' – edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Shaffer Weinberg, 1963 * ''The Pacifist Conscience'' – edited by Peter Mayer, 1966 * ''Peace is the Way: writings on nonviolence from the

Fellowship of Reconciliation The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR or FOR) is the name used by a number of religious nonviolent organizations, particularly in English-speaking countries. They are linked by affiliation to the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). ...

'' – edited by Walter Wink * ''We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now'' – Murray Polner, Thomas Woods, 2008

Juvenile fiction

* ''

The Butter Battle Book ''The Butter Battle Book'' is a rhyming story written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House on January 12, 1984. It is an anti-war story; specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutually assured destruction and nuclear wea ...

'' –

Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel (;"Seuss"
'' Peter Carter, 1982 * '' The Clay Marble'' – Minfong Ho novel, 1991 * '' Fallen Angels'' –

Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem. A tough childho ...

novel, 1988 * '' Habibi'' – Naomi Shihab Nye novel, 1997 * ''I Had Seen Castles'' – Cynthia Rylant, 1993 * ''Soldier's Heart: A Novel of the Civil War'' –

Gary Paulsen Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction, best known for coming-of-age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 maga ...

novel, 1998 * ''Sunrise over Fallujah'' –

, 2008"...Myers' latest novel, ''Sunrise Over Fallujah''...He acknowledges that it probably will be read as an anti-war novel, although, "I don't agree with those who say the war was an horrendous idea from the start.
"The Somber Realities of War Cross Generations in Myers' 'Sunrise'"
''

USA Today ''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgi ...

'', 23rd April 2008. Retrieved 7th March 2017. * ''War Horse'' –

Michael Morpurgo Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo ('' né'' Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as ''War Horse'' (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytell ...

, 1982 * ''When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War'' – Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006 * ''

Glinda of Oz ''Glinda of Oz'' is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L. Frank Baum, published on July 10, 1920. It is the last book of the original Oz series, which was later continued by other authors. Like most of the Oz books, the p ...

'' by

L. Frank Baum Lyman Frank Baum (; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the ''Oz'' series, plus 41 other novels (not includ ...

(published posthumously), Reilly & Lee, 1920.

Juvenile non-fiction

* ''Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers'' – Milton Meltzer, 2002 * ''Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace'' – Hoffman and Lassister, eds. essays, stories, poems, 2003 * ''A Little Peace'' – Barbara Kerley, 2007 * ''Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors'' – Terrence Webster-Doyle, 1993 * ''Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World'' – Jane Breskin Zalben, 2004 * ''Peace One Day'' – Jeremy Gilley, 2005 * ''Some Reasons for War: How Families, Myths and Warfare Are Connected'' – Sue Mansfield, 1988

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