Books with anti-war themes have explicit

anti-war An anti-war movement is a social movement in opposition to one or more nations' decision to start or carry on an armed conflict. The term ''anti-war'' can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conf ...

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 * ''Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson'' – George I. Gurdjieff, 1949 * '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' – Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 * '' The Americanization of Emily'' – William Bradford Huie, 1964 * ''Ashe of Rings'' – Mary Butts novel, 1926 * ''Bid Me To Live'' – H.D. novel, 1960 * ''Captain Jinks, Hero'' – Ernest Crosby, 1902 * '' Catch-22'' – Joseph Heller, 1961 * '' A Doctor's Journal Entry For 6 August,1945'' -

Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian people, Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Awar ...

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Cat's Cradle ''Cat's Cradle'' is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the p ...

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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...

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

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for William Faulkner bibliography, his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in fo ...

, 1954, World War I * '' The Empty Drum'' -

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

, 1887 * ''

A Farewell to Arms ''A Farewell to Arms'' is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant () in the a ...

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Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...

, 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 ''The Forever War'' (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. It won the N ...

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Joe Haldeman Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American people, American science fiction author and former college professor. He is best known for his novel ''The Forever War'' (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier ...

science fiction novel * ''

From Here to Eternity ''From Here to Eternity'' is a 1953 American romantic Drama (film and television)#War drama, war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 From Here to Eternity (novel), novel of the same name by J ...

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

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czechs, Czech writer, Humorism, humorist, Satire, satirist, journalist, Bohemianism, bohemian, first anarchist and then communist, and commissar of the Red Army against the Czechoslovak Legion. He is best k ...

novel * ''Involution & Evolution'' – Joss Sheldon novel * '' Johnny Got His Gun'' – Dalton Trumbo novel, 1938 * '' Journey to the End of the Night'' – Louis-Ferdinand Céline novel * '' Lay Down Your Arms!'' –

Bertha von Suttner Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Bohemian nobility, Austro-Bohemian noblewoman, Pacifism, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), th ...

novel * ''Looking Good'' – Keith Maillard novel * ''Legend of Galactic Heroes'' – Tanaka Yoshiki * ''Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes'' – Keith Maillard novel * ''

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

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Aristophanes Aristophanes (; ; ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek Ancient Greek comedy, comic playwright from Classical Athens, Athens. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today. The majority of his surviving play ...

play, 411 BCE * '' The Naked and the Dead'' –

Norman Mailer Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least ...

novel * ''Non-Combatants and Others'' – Rose Macaulay novel, 1916 * '' Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War'' – Evadne Price (as Helen Zenna Smith) novel, 1930 * '' On the Beach'' – Nevil Shute novel * '' The Once and Future King'' – T. H. White, 1958 * '' Paths of Glory'' – Humphrey Cobb, 1935 * ''Quiet Ways'' –

Katharine Burdekin Katharine Penelope Burdekin (née Cade; 23 July 1896 – 10 August 1963) was a British novelist who wrote speculative fiction concerned with social and spiritual matters.John Clute, "Burdekin, Katherine P(enelope)" in The Encyclopedia of Scienc ...

novel, 1930 * '' The Red Badge of Courage'' –

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 * ''

Shabdangal ''Shabdangal'' ("Voices") is a 1947 novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer which talks about war, orphanhood, hunger, disease and prostitution. The whole length of the novel is a dialogue between a soldier and a writer. The soldier approaches the w ...

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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 ...

novel, 1947 * '' The Short-Timers'' – Gustav Hasford novel * '' Slaughterhouse Five'' –

science fiction novel * '' The Sorrow of War'' – Bảo Ninh 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'' –

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), ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a ...

novel, 1921, World War I * ''

The Tin Drum ''The Tin Drum'' (, ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. To "beat a ti ...

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Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gda ...

novel * ''The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich)'' – Heinrich Böll novel, 1949 * '' Two Women'' –

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

novel, 1958 * '' Under Fire'' –

Henri Barbusse Henri Barbusse (; 17 May 1873 – 30 August 1935) was a French novelist, short story writer, journalist, poet and political activist. He began his literary career in the 1890s as a Symbolist poet and continued as a neo-Naturalist novelist; i ...

novel, 1916 * '' The Unknown Soldier'' – Väinö Linna novel, 1954 * '' Voyage to Faremido'' – Frigyes Karinthy novel, 1916 *"War" - Ludwig Renn novel, 1928. *'' War Porn'' - Roy Scranton novel, 2016. * " The War Prayer" –

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Fau ...

short story, c.1910 * '' War with the Newts'' –

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

, novel 1936 * ''

The Wars ''The Wars'' is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressiv ...

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Timothy Findley Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, (October 30, 1930 – June 20, 2002) was a Canadian novelist and playwright.

novel, 1977 * ''We That Were Young'' – Irene Rathbone novel, 1932 * '' Why Are We in Vietnam?'' –

novel, 1967 * ''Why Was I Killed?'' (retitled ''Return of the Traveller'' in the US) – Rex Warner novel, 1943

Non-fiction

* '' Addicted to War'' – Joel Andreas, 1991, 2002 *Old Man at the Bridge -

May 1938 * ''An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era'' – Charles DeBenedetti, 1990 * '' The Armies of the Night'' –

non-fiction novel The non-fiction novel is a literary genre that, broadly speaking, depicts non-fictional elements, such as real historical figures and actual events, woven together with fictitious conversations and uses the storytelling techniques of fiction. The ...

, 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 Rev. William George Brockway and Frances Eliz ...

, 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'' –

Ron Kovic Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir '' Born on the Fourth of July'' was made i ...

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 jour ...

, 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 predictions and warnings about the consequences of population growth, including famine and resource depletion. Ehrlich is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population ...

Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including e ...

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

Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist ...

, 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 writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the Dean (Christianity), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swi ...

, 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 wa ...

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

The Education of a Christian Prince ''The Education of a Christian Prince'' () is a Renaissance mirror for princes, by Desiderius Erasmus, which advises the reader on how to be a good Christian prince. The book was dedicated to Prince Charles, who later became Habsburg Emperor ...

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, 1516 * ''

Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...

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 year ...

and Heinz Norden; preface by

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

, 1960 * '' Ends and Means'' –

Aldous Huxley Aldous Leonard Huxley ( ; 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction novel, non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the ...

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

Jonathan Schell Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American reporter and writer whose work primarily dealt with American foreign policy from the Vietnam War to the War on Terror, as well as the threat posed by nuclear weapons and ...

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

, 1998 * '' Good-Bye to All That'' -

Robert Graves Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were b ...

, 1929 * ''

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...

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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 no ...

account of the bombings, 1946 * ''

Human Smoke ''Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization'' is a 2008 book by Nicholson Baker about World War II. It questions the commonly held belief that the Allies of World War II, Allies wanted to avoid the war at all costs but ...

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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 ( ...

* ''If the War Goes On …'' –

Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophic ...

, 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 ) is a non-fiction book written by Leo Tolstoy. A Christian anarchist philosophical treatise, the book was first published in Germany in 1894 after being banned in his home ...

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, 1894 * '' The Inevitable Revolution'' – Leo Tolstoy, 1909 * '' Krieg dem Kriege'' aka ''War Against War'' – Ernst Friedrich, 1924 * '' The Last Weapon'' and its sequel ''The Weapon Unsheathed'' – Theodora Wilson Wilson, 1916 * ''The Long Road to Greenham: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820'' – Jill Liddington, 1989 * '' Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' – Norman Mailer

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

Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860May 21, 1935) was an American Settlement movement, settlement activist, Social reform, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of s ...

, 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 author who has written a number of books of fiction and nonfiction. His 1997 book, ''Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'' (1997), was an international bestseller a ...

, 2006 * '' Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe'' – Graham Allison, 2004 * '' Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero'' – edited by Joseph Rotblat, 1998 * ''Pacifism in Europe to 1914'', Peter Brock, 1972 * ''Pacifism in the Twentieth Century'' – Peter Brock and Nigel Young, 1999 * ''Pacifism in the United States'' – Peter Brock, 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 and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, ...

, 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 children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-th ...

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

Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian and a veteran of World War II. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn ...

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

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

essay, 1795 * '' The Politics of Jesus'' – John Howard Yoder, 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 George Ramsdale Witton (28 June 1874 – 14 August 1942) was a lieutenant in the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Boer War in South Africa. He was sentenced to death for murder after the shooting of nine Boer prisoners. He was subsequently repriev ...

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 Foll ...

'', 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, 1937 * '' Three Guineas'' –

Virginia Woolf Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Vir ...

, 1938 * '' Conscience for Change'', 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, civil and political rights, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights move ...

, 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 paleocon ...

, 2012 * ''War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'' –

Chris Hedges Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister. In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for ''The Christian Science Monit ...

, 2003 * ''War Is a Lie'' – David Swanson, 2010 * '' War Is a Racket'' – former

U.S. Marine The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for conducting expeditionar ...

Major General Smedley Butler speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935 * ''Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War'' ''–'' Timmon Wallis, 2024 * ''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, 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 Thomas Ernest Woods Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American author, podcast host, and libertarian commentator who is currently a senior fellow at the Mises Institute.Naji FilaliInterview with Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Harvard Political Review, A ...

, 2008

Juvenile fiction

* ''

The Butter Battle Book ''The Butter Battle Book'' is a children's book 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, mutual assured destruction and nuclear weapon ...

'' – Dr. Seuss, 1984 * ''Children of the Book'' – 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, New York City ...

novel, 1988 * '' Habibi'' –

Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye (; born March 12, 1952) is an Arab American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total, she has published or con ...

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, coming-of-age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote mor ...

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'"
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USA Today ''USA Today'' (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headq ...

'', 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 storytelli ...

, 1982 * ''When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War'' – Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006 * '' Glinda of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum (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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