About a subject so vast that these books are merely a place to begin …

WAR IN FICTION

• A Thread of Grace: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell 
• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak 
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
• Catch-22: A Novel by Joseph Heller
• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
• August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenit'syn 
• A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot

THE STUFF OF WAR

• The Art of War = [Sun-tzu ping fa] by Sunzi, 6th cent. B.C.
• Ancient Weapons: The Story of Weaponry and Warfare Through the Ages
• Canada's Warplanes: Unique Aircraft in Canada's Aviation Museums
• Arms and the Man: Dr. Gerald Bull, Iraq and the Supergun by William Lowther
• The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons by Leonid Tarassuk
• World War II Small Arms by John Weeks
• Arms through the Ages by William Reid
• Weapons: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Diagram Group
• The Gatefold Book of World War II Warplanes
• The Encyclopedia of Military Models by Claude Boileau

• Samurai: The Story of Japan's Great Warriors by Stephen R. Turnbull
• Kilroy was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II by Charles Osgood
• Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romeo A. Dallaire
• An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography by Paul Rusesabagina
• The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story by Jack Todd
• The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Peace & War

WOMEN IN WAR

• War Brides: The Stories of the Women Who Left Everything Behind to Follow the Men They Loved
• A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary by Philip Boehm
• A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
• Dearest Ones: A True World War II Love Story by Rosemary Norwalk
• Back the Attack! Canadian Women During the Second World War - At Home and Abroad by Jean Bruce
• Women in the Holocaust by Dalia Ofer
• Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories from Canada's British War Brides
• Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi
• War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam by Tad Bartimus

BEYOND CONFLICT…

• 2/15: The Day the World Said No to War by Connie Koch
• The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People by Jonathan Schell
• Finding Peace by Jean Vanier
• The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map by Ursula M. Franklin
• Armageddon in Retrospect and other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace by Kurt Vonnegut
  
• Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
• The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind
• Whose War is It?: How Canada can Survive in the Post 9/11 World by J. L. Granatstein

YOUNG READERS…

• Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
  
• The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq by Jeanette Winter
  
• A Little Peace by Barbara Kerley
  
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable by John Boyne
  
• On the Wings of Peace by Sheila Hamanaka
  
• Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis
  
• Weapons & Warfare: From the Stone Age to the Space Age 1^st ed. by Milton Meltzer
• Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine
  
• A Poppy is to Remember by Heather Patterson
  
• Super Spies of World War I by Kate Walker
  
• In Time of War: War Poetry by Anne Harvey
  
• Yossel: April 19, 1943: A Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising [Graphic Novel] by Joe Kubert
• Pride of Baghdad: Inspired by a True Story [Graphic Novel] by Brian K. Vaughan

On DVD and VHS

• The Thin Red Line
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Dirty Dozen
• The Civil War
• Zelary 
• Burnt by the Sun
• The Killing Fields
• Hope and Glory
• Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb