Or maybe the war would be over soon and everything would go back to the way it was. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Beneath the hills on either side the rock was bored into a hundred caves and maggot-holes; there a host of orcs lurked, ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The camel driver, though, seemed not to be very concerned with the threat of war. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midway through the twelfth year of my idiotic war. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln knew that he had to change that now that the war was ending. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the Bosnian war was one of ethnicity and religion, it was just as senseless as the terrorism that ransacked my country. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Not any war. We believe it is the war foretold in ‘The Prophecy of Gray.’ Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ty understood that he didn't know the kind of war he was simulating in the game. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

A turning point though it may have been in the war, it wasn’t exactly a flawless demonstration of military prowess. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Our Miss Maestas came in and told us the war was over, and she was happy, but the little kids just went on writing the magic letters in their tablets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rat had been in tons of wars. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“We want only what is right. But if you will not, then you choose war, for we must fight to defend those who are defenseless.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I did. But when the war was over and I was going home, I took my rifle apart piece by piece and flung it into the sea.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I started off saying that war was about destroying the enemy. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Accomplished ballroom dancers, sluggards who knew neither traditional nor Western dancing, all joined in the indlamu, the traditional Zulu war dance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Baratheon had completed the destruction of the griffins after the war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Fie jumped into a friend’s Cadillac and drove to California to say good-bye to his family before heading into his final round of training, then war. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I had thought of that poem many times since the war, and of myself, by default, as “scribe and confessor.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“They think about getting more, making their empires bigger, war.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe this was the place where I could survive until the war ended. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In early July, Martin Luther King Jr., one of Johnson’s biggest allies in the struggle to end racial discrimination, spoke out against the war while addressing civil rights leaders in Virginia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Egypt could not afford to support another war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

By then it was remembered, not primarily for the war games, but for what happened on the evening of September 15. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The secretary of war has selected you for a very important assignment,” Somervell told Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was Johnson’s first major escalation of America’s war in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The war, of course, did not content itself with soldiers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We'd been displaced by a war and a revolution, but at least we were displaced together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When Fyndoro’s Tablet of Finding went up for auction, a huge bidding war broke out between several of the large gunter clans. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There’s more cheese, now that the war is over. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By sundown today, there will be a three-way war. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know when the war will end, so we can’t continue our journey,” he said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scars from the war, which I felt so deeply, weren't visible in the passing landscape. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Furious, the United States at last joined the global conflict by declaring war on Japan the next day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Okinawan people had always been peaceful and had no history of ever going to war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the heart of Gilead, where the war cannot intrude except on television. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had heard about the war but still had difficulty believing that people could do the things that he had heard they did. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even over the sound of the motor, it seemed like a war was going on in his throat. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In return, Hitler declared war on the United States. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, however, that as soon as he put those scruples aside he would break the vicious circle of the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened face, a tall man with the eyes of a war veteran. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the following issue Arthur printed a public service advertisement urging islanders to buy war bonds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the day we loaf about and make war on the rats. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some even came here to Dinetah and told me they were sorry for the things they did in the war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The war” will always mean the Civil War, not the World War that just ended. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the war made him a certain somebody. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another eight million civilians perished because they were caught in the cross fire, or struck down by the starvation and disease that war brings with it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they send you to war, make you lick them Germans, teach you how to fight and when you come back they scared of you, want to kill you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war games amazed everyone, especially the boys and girls. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nuclear war, according to them, according to the press, was imminent. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The idea was to hasten the end of the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not uncommon for people to turn away from the war, some to fantasy and some to vice and some to crazy gaiety. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We are considered useless because we cannot help out the war effort direcdy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shouldn’t they be more concerned about the approaching war? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She had not wanted their family to become collateral damage in a war that had no discernible fronts, no real shape, and no rules. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even Chiron the centaur was dressed for war. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

You apologize, in passing, for not writing about the war. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

King Erechtheus, her father, rewarded with her hand a foreigner who had helped him in a war. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long ago, before the war, before Wandsworth, he used to revel in his freedom to make his own life, devise his own story with only the distant help of Jack Tallis. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There were stories of competition in the oil patch turning into a Mafia turf war. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the way I’ve heard people talk about forest fires, or the war: respect and wonderment mixed in with the sense of catastrophe. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Made her see that one war had cost her two children already; this latest could cost her her remaining one. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But who would be that sneaky? Who would want war that bad?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“What did that say about the legitimacy of imposing our will to continue the war?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Robb has broken fealty with the Iron Throne and crowned himself King in the North. There's war." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had both found life meaningless, partly because of what they had seen in war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached the ground floor, he emerged into a war zone. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She and her father were constantly at war over the TV programs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient spear point might have been used in war, but it could have been used in a hunt as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe, given his own impulse to jump around, it’s not surprising that, during the war, he came up with the Mackworth Clock. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But wars were not the first, second, or even third thoughts in my mind on those nights. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Bunches of them are already crushed and strewn around like weapons after the war. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He wondered what it would be like to lose the war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear about Edward Foster? They nearly lynched the poor old man simply because he said too many of our boys are dying in the war. And him a distinguished veteran.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“All’s fair in love and war,” said Ron brightly, “and this is a bit of both. Cheer up, it’s the Christmas holidays, Luna’ll be home!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I live in a community where on the walls are the names of fallen comrades of war. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crouched low for her attack, placed her hands on the young woman’s desk, and leaned close, saying, "Oh yeah? And do you love your little war?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They say he was in Azerbaijan when the war began, and the borders were closed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Merry looked round: he had forgotten the war, and all the world beside, and many hours it seemed since the king rode to his fall, though in truth it was only a little while. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim, war would become tolerable and decent. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around Britain and across the world, war raged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Framing somebody to start a war. Oldest trick in the book. I recognized it immediately. In a way, you got me to thank for your little quest.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When the war is over, he believes that the issue has been settled by combat, that God has passed judgment. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They declared that for the first time in their experience, they are actually fearful of America’s losing a war.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When history carried him into war, this resilient optimism would define him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Farmers tend to breathe out nastier germs, to own better weapons and armor, to own more-powerful technology in general, and to live under centralized governments with literate elites better able to wage wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was worried he might become one of those ghosts if they lost this war—eternally doomed to pay for his failures, assuming there was anyone left to summon him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Words had to be added for new weapons, military terms, and situations of war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet war antedates the state, diplomacy and strategy by many millennia. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Moriori were a small, isolated population of hunter-gatherers, equipped with only the simplest technology and weapons, entirely inexperienced at war, and lacking strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Let them fight their own wars without dragging us in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not averse to dying at war in the way Americans were. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He told me that Cambodia is fighting a civil war, and that most Cambodians do not live in cities but in rural villages, farming their small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After one student hopelessly said, “Zlata survived her war, but I’m afraid I may not survive mine,” I was convinced that Zlata must read their letters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It's why I came now, because Elsbeth's family always had a big Sunday dinner at her grandmother's house, and I bet this tradition has continued even through the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But he cannot travel now. Not only are we on the verge of war, the Queen is pregnant.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If I send the Brazen Beasts into the pyramids, it will mean open war inside the city. I have to trust in Hizdahr. I have to hope for peace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

During the war, weather was classified information, but on Rass we didn’t need a city man on a radio to warn us of bad weather. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were excellent fighters and were ready to fight the war till the end. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Tally! You look like you went through a war zone.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As for us, chances were that we would be allowed to go on with our miserable little lives until the end of the war. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Armistead, tom by the war away from his beloved friend Win Hancock, who was undoubtedly waiting ahead on that black hill beyond Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They really would be sent to the war front with no training. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Well said, my lady. There will be time enough for graces when these wars are done. Tell me, when does your son mean to march against Harrenhal?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Certainly, the war is still being waged, but as to its status, we’re in the dark. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Older men had gone to war as soldiers or been killed in battle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This hegemony looked likely to continue indefinitely But even without the catastrophe of two world wars, the Austro- German dynasty was coming to an end. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“No reason. Why do we have to get up at five? The war’s over, for God’s sake.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

During the civil war, Portuguese soldiers came through the village and destroyed all the boats to keep them from being used by Frelimo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown up in a war zone, but life in America, I realized, was a different kind of war zone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"Your Boy King lost ten thousand men taking the place, and another fifty trying to hold it. Someone should have told him that war isn't a game." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The elders would tell tales of the wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the Fatherland, as well as the acts of valor by generals and soldiers during these epic days.. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a second equivocal report in hand, Bush was on the verge of terminating fission research altogether as a war program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As they disappeared around the bend, Brian and I did a victory dance in the rock-strewn street, giving our own war whoops. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was gaining back some of the muscle he’d lost after high school, but he’d lost the war with his hairline. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Father tried to ram into me that there was no glory nor heroism in war and battle,” said Henry Metelmann. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This war is killing me,” Rinaldi said, “I am very depressed by it.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Of all the strategic fields on which to wage war against Bull Meecham, the automobile was the most precipitate. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Mrs. Coulter said, “Very well, I’ll tell you. Lord Asriel is gathering an army, with the purpose of completing the war that was fought in heaven eons ago.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The domesticity in this poem, these kitchens, gardens, ponds...is not a metaphor for the ludicrous war in the South Atlantic in this year?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the personal histories of the Soviet women who flew and worked on aircraft during the war, there are many stories of gender discrimination, but there’s practically no mention of sexual aggression or assault. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Uncle must know about the war and the fighting! A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly half of the Allied soldiers who were captured by the Japanese during the war died in those camps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s their puppet. They’ll keep the war going through him, you can bet on that.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was so real standing next to me, big and strong like he was before the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s supposed to be symbolic. You firing the last shot of the war.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But Robert was nearly fourteen, and the thought of the boy being sent to this never-ending war in Vietnam was one of Ellsberg’s main motivations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Had the war in Europe started? he wondered. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He said the war would be over as soon as the truce went into effect, and he didn’t want to be the last guy to die in Nam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father never talked about the war,” I say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Baelor the Blessed prayed and fasted and built the Seven as splendid a temple as any gods could wish for, yet he could not put an end to war and want.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ever since he'd been injured in the war, he was a nervous wreck. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There were boys from Illinois at Wilson’s Creek, and the war for many people in Jasper County had suddenly become a sorrowful reality. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The war didn’t stop with the Spackle,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But then year after year went by, there was the war, Catherine grew up, and one day I realized I loved my husband. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She felt a distinct kind of tearing within her, two things at war and pulling her in different directions. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So, for the years between 1820 and 1945, he collected data on the hundreds of wars that had been fought on our poor planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The season of plenty in southern Illinois had not been touched by the war. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Either one or the other. And although I don’t believe in war I’m ready to fight for what I know is right.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’m sure I can talk about the way things changed for women during both world wars. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

For over a year he served as chair of the Board of War and Ordinance, playing the role of secretary of war during the most tense and uncertain phase of the fighting. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Already war is gathering on his eastern borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were let off at some barracks that Mama said had been a center for Japanese soldiers who were being shipped out during the war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years earlier, on August 20, 1947, a U.S.- led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was only five years old and already he’d known two wars in his short life. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the cost of experimental equipment had always been secondary to the goal of the research, especially during the war, when the urgency of the Manhattan Project made profit-and-loss calculations irrelevant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I think the system persists because we’re afraid of what might happen if it didn’t: war. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She talked about how hardworking her parents were before the war hit Czechoslovakia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The new ciphers were not as demanding as those she had cracked earlier in the war, and they did not yield much in the way of vital intelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were his poetry, the poems inspired by Remedios, which he had taken with him when he left, and those he had written later on during chance pauses in the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The plan before Max left was made by Dr. Schillinger and involves paying off the mailman, a man Dr. Schillinger knew before the war. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

On February 17, he told the public, “We seek no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Many leaders in the civil rights struggle were afraid to speak out against the war, fearing they would be branded as unpatriotic, and the civil rights movement would be damaged. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He says this is war. There is no shame in war.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Welles added back a section cut from Koch’s earlier draft, a speech from the secretary of war. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, reaching a unanimous decision about going to war was proving difficult. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“We all have wounds from that war. But now Osama has turned against the United States.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Filch was the Hogwarts caretaker, a bad-tempered, failed wizard who waged a constant war against the students and, indeed, Peeves. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Werner feels sympathy for the two million French prisoners of war that the Nazis have forced into labor in Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Baachan...may I ask? What was the war like here? Did you ever get bombed here in the country, even once?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The numbers were double that of Angola, then at the end of a long civil war, and the North Korean government became furious when they were released to the public. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But if something displeased the gods—and sometimes it took very little—the consequences were awesome: droughts, storms, wars, earthquakes, volcanoes, epidemics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m interested in making a living, not fighting a war,” Father said. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relatively little organized opposition to the drug war currently exists, and any dramatic effort to scale back the war may be publicly condemned as “soft” on crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upheavals of the war deprived Kepler of much of his financial support, and the end of his life was spent fitfully, pleading for money and sponsors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The world must be made safe for democracy,” Wilson said in his declaration of war to Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His father's war was long done, and lost. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I'm not the only one in the family who has been changed by the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes sir, it will be good to get the factories back to making cars, instead of a car factory being used to aid the war. How many wars do we need anyway?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I listened closely to their conversating, but they blew only hot air, complaining about the Congress and the weather and the effect of war on business. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know much about history? About the war with the Drevlians?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Coups begat coups, he said, telling us about the bloody coups of the sixties, which ended up in civil war just after he left Nigeria to study in England. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They sounded as though they were right above our rooftops, and hearing them rekindled the feeling of war in me. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had protested against the war, but didn’t run when he told her he’d served in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soon his skill as an expert craftsman became apparent, and that helped him to regain some of the pride and self-respect he had enjoyed in the years before the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His war paint was smeared and his feathers were crooked. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The two women agreed that if the war lasted a long time and their husbands did not return, they would help each other through whatever followed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When they told him, “We are amazed at the good work God is doing here,” Richard wanted to ask why God had allowed the war to happen in the first place. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. That is why we have this war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now their war had cut them off from all their needs. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Physical Review soon acceded to a system by which it would accept articles on nuclear reactions but keep them in a vault, to be published after the conclusion of the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were off somewhere, shaping up for the war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan Swift defined war as “that mad game the world loves to play.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Cutting down that tree was my last war!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what they do in the war movies,” one guy said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times past, just after the war, his missing arm had caused him a great deal of pain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Soon I was able to blame the war. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Your victory, rather, Archivist. This is some forgotten goblin victory during the war before your race retreated into the mountains, unwilling to fight honorably.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He touted their bravery and vowed that if war came, Polish soldiers would not give the Germans who dared to invade so much "as a button from their uniforms." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Captain Stewart said that the war wasn’t over yet, and for us not to get too relaxed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You two are in a merry mood, considering we are at war,” he said with a frown as he vaulted onto his bat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, the war years shaped and hardened his convictions on this score, though the basic attitudes on which they rested were in place long before he assumed command of the Continental Army. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Our troops have lost all the captured territory in the midwest and the march to Lagos is over. Nigeria now says this is war, no longer a police action.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"You will come back, though. When your warring's done, you'll pass this way again." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Ex-soldiers like me who fought in the war,” he said with checked anger, “are busy trying to forget what horrors we went through and she’s just reminding us of how bad it was.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I still appeared to be myself from the outside, I’m sure, just as he still looked like the same boy who’d gone off to war. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How quickly we forgot that in that winter Ludendorff could not be beaten and that many people were preparing in their minds and spirits for a lost war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He went to war,” the fighter pilot with the golden mustache surmised. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She hated all Trojans, of course; she never forgot the judgment of Paris and she had been Troy’s bitterest enemy during the war, but she felt an especial hatred for Aeneas. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Winterfell needed to brace for war, how much more so Riverrun, so much closer to King's Landing, with the power of easterly Rock looming to the west like a shadow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even war, at which he excelled, took second place in his affections. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Used to the sounds of war coming and going, we went back to sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a star, who went astray! . . . They knew I didn’t harm Malcolm, but he tried to make war against me.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Awful stories about starving Belgians and cruelties of war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know if I can take this with a war on. I don’t know. ” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, after the war, Riefenstahl would speak as little as possible about her participation in the Rally for Freedom. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If something can be stated of one thing, then the opposite can be stated of its opposite: if war is an evil, then it follows that peace is a good. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I knew that after all the protests,” he later wrote, “American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have no doubt that they made the war shorter. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then the war blew up my school and killed my friends. My dreams are dead, Baba. I’m not afraid to fight ISIS.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amongst the tales they related to me were those of wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the fatherland. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At 3 p.m., the roll call vote began on the question of entering the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In ordinary conversation I never spoke much about the war, certainly not in detail, and yet ever since my return I had been talking about it virtually nonstop through my writing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was most likely the chickens and the goats getting into a turf war again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They dare not kill him out of hand; he was still a Lannister of easterly Rock, and if they shed his blood, it would mean war. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I assumed, of course, that he meant the war of the moment. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buxton pointed out that the Swiss, who were neutral in the war, would raise a stink at having their territory used this way—well, he said, they’d just have to get over it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

North Vietnam’s strategy was to keep fighting, to keep absorbing punishment, until the American public tired of war and demanded the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the war in Europe was only one part of Russia’s troubles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Thoreau, to protest slavery and what he saw as America’s unjust war in Mexico, had refused to pay taxes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My dear Solovet, how kind of you to fly out to greet me. And with a war on, too.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Indigenous fighters went to a British garrison in Canada to obtain weapons and supplies, and Tecumseh called for a unified and coordinated Indigenous-led war on the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent many hours there fishing for brook trout with David and Joseph; and although there were no fish left since the war, I remembered the course of the stream bed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Garrett thought of his sons, who had returned from the war safely just a few days ago. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Almost everyone knew that if it were completed successfully and rapidly enough, it might determine the outcome of the war,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Hubert Parry viewed the war, as did Elgar, from an older generation’s perspective, composing a cycle of choral songs of mature, eloquent poignancy in Songs of Farewell. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After the war, they were all deported to Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

During the war, all families with private houses that could were asked to take in people who temporarily found themselves without homes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

So working on Battle Cry was William Faulkner’s way of contributing to the war against the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That was the year that the cold war ended, the year the Berlin Wall came down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Among them are many that are used in man’s war against nature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest, and several tax audits. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

With his pipe, genially self-effacing manner, and electrified hair, Einstein was too splendid a figure to remain permanently obscure, and in 1919, the war over, the world suddenly discovered him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It all came down to the progress of the war with Japan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was there when the war ended on April 9, 1865. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war pushed on, and the Nazis won victory after victory. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rain was falling harder now, beating the roof of the refectory like the drums of war, running down the sluices in torrents. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Men sat in quiet groups, talking the long slow talk of night in camp at war; many had gone to sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my fingers finally touched her dress, the war seemed to halt. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

As for the British women, now that the war was over, the situation in the air was the same as it was in the United States and the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Until World War II, more victims of war died of war-borne microbes than of battle wounds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You may be in command of your war, but I’m in command of my house.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“The capture of this material,” Groves reported, “would seem to remove definitely any possibility of the Germans making any use of an atomic bomb in this war.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rejected the more aggressive steps recommended by the Joint Chiefs, for fear of expanding the war and sparking greater protests at home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They let fly a volley at the ramparts, shouting bloodcurdling war cries. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Moton school office put war stamps on sale, each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She had no interest in spoils of war - no desire to let any part of the giant survive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The 442nd Combat Regiment was famous now, full of heroes, fighting in Europe to help the Allies win the war, and showing that Niseis too could be patriots. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not so long ago, the thought of Robb calling the banners and riding off to war would have filled him with excitement, but now he felt only diead. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then she wondered with alarm if there would still be wars when Akira was grown up, and whether he would have to fight in one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“At Camp Jupiter, they said you sided with the Titans in the last war.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Robin thought of his father and how he had looked on that last day when he rode off to the Scottish wars at the head of the column. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

In the distance, Greek triremes floated on Long Island Sound, prepped for war. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had always hated the war, even talk of war, fretting so about his brother, who had gone off and yet never sent a word, not one. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose that’s why he got so worried after the war ended when all the telephones went off. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Look at how many more people die because of guns in the US compared to the rest of the world. It’s like we’re living in a war zone.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s a terrible thing, it’s a pitiful thing, but it’s war. The sooner we make one great swoop, the sooner the sufferin’ is over fer all of us—South as well as North.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, he opened his mind to the voices of the war god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“So we all fought on the same side of the war,” Alhaji said, and we all sat down, still glaring at each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another time, they passed by the ruins of a town that had been destroyed during the recent war with the elves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In 1788 war broke out between the Chickamaugas and the Franklin settlers and continued for several years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I told her, “Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ruling forces of Congo had been fighting wars for years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

These had features in common with codes she had solved before, and they were more crucial to the war effort than the chatter of South American spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If they were here for war, the coastguard was a goner. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio in the background seemed to sing louder, the cheerful pop tune warring with the sick thwack of baton blows against skin. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

What was threatening to be an all-out war becomes a war council, with our parents strategizing what the principal can be told, especially about the running away. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The best young Americans were going to war or going to jail. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The horrors of war had added a new level of distress to an already damaged psyche. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Sunnis and the Shiites went to war for hundreds of years. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He called Josiah by his Indian name and said, “If he had known then maybe he could have told you before you went to the white people’s big war.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The majority of the SS-HJ, however, fought within the rules of war, and they even earned praise from their opponents. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Balkan war was then at its height, during what was called the Yugoslav Era of Disintegration. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"That I don’t know,” I say, "but whichever way is is there’s war all the same and every month more countries coming in.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word would get out somehow or other, and Judd would see David Howard or Mike Wells walking his dog, and then the war would really start. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a pity about his father, who had his own war and who now preferred silence. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not fathom it: living here before going off to war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He makes it sound like we’re old war buddies or something. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A trained war-horse was also expensive, and Simon’s father was not alone in being bankrupt after the war. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

People discussed the war and how the Germans might save us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A quiet war erupted between the two of them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t refuse a hungry widow who’d lost her husband in the war some cloth or molasses on credit, but then how could we pay for new merchandise ourselves? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was what the whole war was about. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If Madoc is regent, you know that Faerie will always be at war.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I saved the two of us from slavery, you would think some gratitude might be in order “If you sleep any longer, you’re like to miss the war.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His request is not accepted, although he cites his poor health, and he serves until the end of the war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking war thoughts it had gathered, blossomed into another thing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t do him any good to bankrupt himself buying war bonds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One anonymous pilot’s future husband proposed to her among the ruins of Berlin just after the war ended. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Neck: “My family has been in this country for over two hundred years. We built this place, fought in every war from the first one to the last one, paid taxes, and voted.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn't finish. There is no finish to a war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Honest about the reality of war, about the loss of life in war, and about remembering those who served and especially those who died.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Billy went from total dark to total light, found himself back in the war, back in the delousing station again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hades didn’t want war among the Big Three. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Problem Solve as to how to obtain food after the railroad lines were cut off, strategize as to earlier successes during the war. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She told me about the dark times when Denmark warred with Norway and a long drought brought starvation to the village and hunger to the castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But once the civilization calmed, quieted, and wars ceased, the question became senseless in a new way. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther back came the baggage train—lumbering wayns laden with provisions and loot taken in the war, and carts crowded with wounded men and cripples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And soon the word had gone out from the House that the king was indeed come among them, and after war he brought healing; and the news ran through the City. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But there was nothing we could do about it except to pray every night that the war would end soon, and Father and Sam would come home again. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had Millennium Challenge been a real war instead of just an exercise, twenty thousand American servicemen and women would have been killed before their own army had even fired a shot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The gods of Olympus would take sides in the battle as they always did in human wars. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Why does there have to be a war to take Shad away from me before I’m of an age that Pa thinks is old enough fer marryin7” Jethro was sympathetic and terribly uncomfortable. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“But the whole quest started with us finding Hera and waking that giant king Porphyrion. I have a feeling the war will end with us too. For better or worse.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Now, the chief business of the people of Hampton Roads was the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As if that weren’t enough, although the fighting in Ireland had come to an end, civil war had broken out in England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was little evidence of a war in this suburban street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only ships to be seen were the king's war galleys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I truly hope so. I hope the King is so upset he jumps up and down on his crown. This war is not over, not by a long shot.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As often as I could, I visited military hospitals where American troops were recovering from the wounds of war. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t explain to them that no Iranian had yet committed an act of terror in the United States, nor had Iran invaded any other country in an unjust war. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I feel that I’m lucky to be alive to write novels today, when the whole world is caught in the pangs of war and change. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Congress is not in session, Jenny, and only Congress can declare war. Still, Mr. Lincoln has asked for seventy-five thousand volunteers—from the militia of all the states.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know his dreams are about the war. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The war is over and everyone bursts out singing! Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should white people be paid to fight our war anyway?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk about the refugees living in camps all over the globe, displaced by war, separated from their loved ones. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I'm looking at a small war between two smart women. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years leading into World War II, and during the war, it was much more common for women to be involved in aviation than it is even now. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Some of my classmates are going through a war ... an undeclared war, waged on innocent kids just trying to grow up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a speaker railed against the never-ending war, Barker’s team mingled, not exactly blending in—they were the only ones in suits. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had been outraged when he went off- to war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should the United States commit to fighting a major ground war in Vietnam? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hence, soon after the 1848 war, most local ranchers found themselves up to their elbows in sheep with no place to graze them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor was a thin quiet little man who seemed disturbed by the war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And to die now, especially now, when the war was almost over, when there was to be a meeting soon of the new United Nations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not only was he noodling around in his mind the best ways to get a war going, he also had to constantly have affection shining from his eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For most Navajos, though, the possibility of a war was very far away. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that he learned about the war in Europe and was able to follow the advances of the troops on a map he hung on the school blackboard, which he marked with pins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, for Frankie, was a declaration of war, and he grabbed his own handful of mud to throw at me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Black Moon, another Lakota war leader, looked at Crazy Horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was the usual sort of war, with a great deal of shoring and shouting on both sides, great strokes smitten, many men overthrown, and great valiances, prowesses, and feats of arms shown every day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep—sitting in front of a sewing machine all day. Best job in the world. That was after he got back from the war. Vietnam.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said: “My own beloved girlfriend died in the war. She died on the elfin front. Blanchepon was her name. She died.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The civil war in Sudan had touched millions of lives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing I needed was to be swept up in someone else’s revolution, when I was battling my own war trying to get my family here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But anyone could have bought it before the war or stolen it, and it had no merit as a safe-conduct pass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You translate for prisoners of war? You work for Intelligence—you translate at interrogations?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s brought word that Lord Furnival—God keep him well—has returned from the wars. He’s ill and expected to die.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But now, now that I’ve been spared, my first wish after the war is to become a Dutch citizen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Large numbers of former slaves roamed the highways in the early years after the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"More fool they. My first rule of war, Cat—never give the enemy his wish. Lord Tywin would like to fight on a field of his own choosing. He wants us to march on Harrenhal." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean, underneath all that war paint. Your pictures didn’t even show you well.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They remembered their father whom they had known between wars. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Shaper was singing the glorious deeds of the dead men, praising war. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policy has led to several jittery years of missile launches, frozen economic deals, border shootings, and periodic threats from the North of “total war.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wore a bronze breastplate and war helm with black camo pants and a sword strapped to his side. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you chose the wrong war god.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The tribe migrated for several reasons, including civil war and discrimination at home, as well as the fact that the mountains held an abundance of grasslands—a paradise for grazing cows. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

President Ronald Reagan officially announced the current drug war in 1982, before crack became an issue in the media or a crisis in poor black neighborhoods. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our ancestors saw what war does to human beings. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you remember that I told you that war has been declared?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man warring with himself, just as I war with myself. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“The safety of this nation,” he insisted, “cannot lie wholly or even primarily in its scientific or technical prowess. It can be based only on making future wars impossible.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance they could hear the sound of war planes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margaret eventually moved to Pasadena, California, where she lived through time of war and epidemic and crushing financial depression, and then war again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I tried to drive them out by evoking older memories of Kabati before the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Another guess concerning the hypothetical experiment’s object: the elimination of war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I realized that it was not just the continuation of the locally devastating, hopelessly stalemated war that was unjustified—it had been wrong from the start.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The one with the wolf-headed helmet snarled, “I have been in your mind, Leo. I helped you start the war.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the plane was empty, and Luke’s emotions went to war. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before the war it had a posh civil flying club, and it has also been a Royal Air Force base for years. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The war had been a freight train, traveling headlong at top speed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now there are wars in the south, killings in the north, rumors that foreigners took over the army and want to murder Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted to know about people, not about war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A million things all at once — I was too good for this war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tank resembles the ones they show on the news when talking about war in the Middle East. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Nope. I see no reason to start a family war—you shouldn’t, either,” he said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The youthful count of St Pol had been taught the arts of war by being given twenty-four living prisoners to slaughter in various ways, for practice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Olympian gods came charging out of the heavens on their war chariots, trumpets blaring, swords flaming. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Bull knew there was no real reason for Varney to address the squadron; he wanted to be a part of the grand panoply of what could be the first day of a war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The best way to stay at peace is to be prepared for war.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My lord swore that he would ride him. home when the war was done. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her dad, the war god, wanted to kill me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Up on the wall of Troy the old King Priam and the other old men, wise in the ways of war, sat watching the contest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This was right in the middle of the war. The US army had taken Baghdad, but things were really dangerous." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s a war out here, man,” one dealer told him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This is why I keep writing war stories: He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, the war was being fought without a strategy that could possibly lead to victory. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the war ends it is found that his Second Corps captured more prisoners, more colors, and suffered more casualties than the entire rest of the Army of the Potomac. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not wasted time: they held a council of war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It would be good to have strong, educated women with equality and a voice when the war was over and Southern Sudan was rebuilt. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I have been in seven wars and four revolutions," the count said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

None of this is to suggest that the financial rewards offered for police participation in the drug war are the only reason that law enforcement decided to embrace the war with zeal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It almost seemed that she was using the war as an excuse to leave Curacao. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that none of us code talkers could go home as soon as the end of the war was announced. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1917, a lot of workers were heading off to war. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she could have sworn that the god of war rode a peacock…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A low hill rises before me, and when I reach the top, the night breeze curdles, bringing with it the unmistakable smells of war—blood and dung and rot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The war god’s voice was surprisingly warm, full of pride. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He said he was going to help repair roads destroyed by the war and to build new ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The war had raged for close to a year. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The woods looked dangerous now, full of coyotes and bears and, soon, humans at war. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Although no one considered them capable of winning the war, they could at least draw out the bloody conflict for weeks or months and inflict heavy casualties on Union troops. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Your work, your war work, is to cultivate your talent, and go in the direction it demands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tyrion looked down upon the farewells from the high deck of King Robert’s Hammer, a great war galley of four hundred oars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Any one of his features would be dramatic, but all of them together, it’s a turf war, a rumble for territory, nose against mouth against flashing eyes. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Adams instructed his beloved Abigail to start saving all his letters even before the outbreak of the war for independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

‘But if you would take my counsel,’ said Éomer in a low voice, ‘you would then return hither, until the war is over, lost or won.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Also, some growers’ associations, threatened by the return of interned farmers, had been using the war as a way to foment hostile feelings in the major farming areas. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, war came and I went and served, like my father. Like your father now. Duty calls, and we answer in this family. No, sir, our apples don’t fall far from the tree.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They yelled at her because they both wanted her; they had been buddies all through the war together, and she was trying to split them up, they said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had arrived in Macondo in the middle of the war with a chance husband who lived off raffles, and when the man died she kept up the business. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

More often, the theme was politics and the awkward cold war thought up by the American paranoids, who should be back in the law offices of middlewestern towns. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

As the carriage travels the seven blocks to the theater, Major Rathbone, with his muttonchops and broad mustache, sits facing Lincoln, talking about his experiences in the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

However, this is probably counterbalanced by deaths from trauma to soft tissues and from the invisible deprivations that accompany war. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are making a fort, like soldiers in a war. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As a prisoner of war, he was sent first to the United States and then to England. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So they tried to sink the loss in booze, and silence their grief with war stories about their courage, defending the land they had already lost. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And yet it had been glossed over in my education, and in popular culture, representations of the war and its reasons seemed obscured. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they attach razor blades to the sides of the kites and in a war of all against all try to cut each other’s strings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It looked as though a war had started.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I certainly wouldn’t be keeping any model jeeps and choppers to remember the war going on, but JimmyTrotter thought his Red Tail war hawks and his brother’s bomber jets were just grand. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

While college students marched against the war, Calliope protested against hair clippers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Plantation owners were suddenly destitute, and state governments, shackled by war debt, were penniless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nothing tainted these white warriors of winter as they swooped down their spotless mountainsides, and this cool, clean response to war glided straight into Leper’s Vermont heart. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been the same announcer throughout the war, so that by now Tessie felt she knew him; he was almost family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Anna Kirilina, an armament mechanic for the 125th Guards, sums up the huge depth of emotion that the war created for Raskova’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

With it come the scents of salt and hay and fish markets and distant marshes and absolutely nothing that smells to her of war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“As soon as this terrible war is over he’ll come home again.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Lewis, listen—” “Nah, you listen here, boy. I fought a war, came back, and fought one here. See this?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You’re talking about the beginning of the bloodiest war in U.S. history. Over six hundred thousand people died—more Americans than in World War One and World War Two combined.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well, wars don’t last forever. So, glad to have you on the team.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was a well-fed man wearing the brown coat trimmed with white that signified he was a prisoner of war. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

How satisfying to have a bloodless war in which each side was equally convinced of its own triumph. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

No matter how valiantly a woman proves herself in battle, her experience of war will always differ from a man’s experience, because she is a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Truman needed to stop asking questions about the secret war plants. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A. Mitchell Palmer’s open war against Reds had begun. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As always, the closer he got to the war, the worse it looked. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The uncomfortable reality is that a literal war has been waged on our most vulnerable communities, and convictions for relatively minor, nonviolent offenses have propelled mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the fun ended abruptly late one night shortly after the United States entered the war, when Dr. Tuve discovered Merle copying down Morse code in the attic. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That war is over nearly five years and they can’t get over it so they shoot animals every weekend and drink Rhein- gold till they can’t see. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

With Argentinian beef, Colombian platinum, and a multitude of raw materials from Brazil, the Nazis could keep their war machine going for the foreseeable future. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

President Kennedy, looking worried too, was on the television at home, explaining we might have to go to war against the Communists. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was not the essence of Devon, and so it was donated, without too serious a wrench, to the war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was because he was too old, but everybody knew that was just an excuse: he’d quit because he was against the war and didn’t want to fight in it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up the climbing streets of Minas Tirith they clattered, while the noise of war rose behind them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

For every life saved by vaccination or food relief, one is lost to starvation or war. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All signs pointed to the war going on for a long time. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Whether it’s declared or not, there is a war being fought on the street corners and alleyways of Long Beach. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A short time later contradictory news of the war began to come in. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

How much longer would it take to eradicate the scars of interracial civil war, which could not be fought without a great loss of life on both sides? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of their ranks was an actual war elephant. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my death, he predicts a turning of the tide in the war, since the demoralized rebels have no one left to follow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Each day,” Kerry charged, “someone has to die so that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, ‘the first president to lose a war.’ Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the war came, no one could refute his evidence. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A field that had seemed unified was split into warring camps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yelling and shouting fearsome war cries, the attackers leaped from the ditch, peppering the ramparts with a hail of arrows, spears and stones. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He had come home from the war and seen in his own eyes the disturbed empty reaches he’d seen in the eyes of other soldiers he’d known. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They have wives, children, occupations, and interests, they have a background which is so strong that the war cannot obliterate it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one recalls when the gift-giving started, probably in the 1980s, when Central Americans, fleeing war and poverty, began riding the rails north in large numbers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He also stepped up his war on the Jews. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many were triaged in the war zone and then treated at a military medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, before being flown to the United States. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Chacko finished his BA and left for Oxford to do another one, Kerala was on the brink of civil war. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Numerous paths were available to our nation in the wake of the crack crisis, yet for reasons traceable largely to racial politics and fear mongering, we chose war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Think of her now, guiding a wounded aircraft through the unfamiliar fire and darkness of a war zone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Until the gang war, J. T.’s foot soldiers had been willing to balance the risky, low-paying job with the reward of advancement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They had survived the unimaginable, as had three of their children, but the war ripped a hole in their hearts that would never heal. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only thing he had noticed was that talk of war was becoming more and more frequent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Right ... I was thinking you should probably see what happened today at the council of war. I slept through some of it, but -’ ‘Show me,’ Nico said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that the war had not really ended, that it would start again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the witches, not those angel-beings, but that sleeping child: the final weapon in the war against the Authority. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the Germans losing the war on both fronts, food became even more scarce. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The same as a Piper Cub. We used them during the war as training planes and for spotting enemy subs and all kinds of things.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the start of the war, all navies had ships with wooden hulls. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Down by my feet I had laid out all the Japanese army souvenirs Dad had shipped home from the war. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As with any war, you had to ready yourself for battle. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Armoured they come rolling on in long lines, more than anything else embody for us the horror of war. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Director Howard Hawks’s new movie, Battle Cry, would be Hollywood’s most sweeping war film of them all. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The survivors would witness more subtle consequences of the war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the fact that white people are harmed by the drug war does not mean they are the real targets, the designated enemy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had always had a small war with Mama. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

How long did we live this way, like nomads on the far edges of the war? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, being in hiding during the fourth year of the war is no picnic. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When the 587th Regiment finally went to war, most of its tail gunners were men, because the machine guns in the Pe-2s required so much strength to recharge. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Anyway, hill land was more valuable now, and those black people who had moved down right after the war and in the fifties couldn’t afford to come back even if they wanted to. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The war is going well, I hear,” she says. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked as though the war were going on for a long time. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the stories after the war, all the resistance heroes were dashing, sinewy types who could construct machine guns from paper clips. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He never went into too much detail about the actual war, though. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better they could argue. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many black South Africans, the story of the war was that there was someone called Hitler and he was the reason the Allies were losing the war. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I read about wars in the newspaper and watch reports on the evening news. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Planning for the war game began in earnest in the summer of 2000. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In a full nuclear exchange, in the paroxysm of thermonuclear war, the equivalent of a million Hiroshima bombs would be dropped all over the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the camps would last until the war ended in Sudan, and nobody knew how long that would be. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was watching the war on TV, so across the hallway I heard her phone up the landscapers. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking this may all work out, that he can just sit out the war in Tigris’s cellar, when he announces he’s going out on his own. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, boys,” he said, “the war’s about to be over. Truman’s sending in the marines.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He had no stature and a small voice and there were no big parts for him until the war came, and now he was the only one who knew how good he was. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Boy! Sweet boy! Is it war, red war? Boy, free us. A man can fight. Boy!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

During a quiet moment it struck me that Congo was an easier country to survive in than most during a time of war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"You've been in the war. It was two hours and a half for me." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Liberals were determined to go to war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wanted to use his pulpit to wage a war against drunkenness and the use of alcohol. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Mercenary fighters were nonmembers hired on short-term contracts to help the gang fight turf wars. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Take her downstairs. She will be tried along with all the other war criminals.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On February 18, weekly US casualty figures hit their highest number ever in the war—a staggering 543 Americans were killed and 2,547 wounded in just seven days of fighting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go,” he said between chuckles, “stay for lunch. You can count on it. Always three meals a day, war or peace, in this room.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The surrender led to talks that ended the war in 1783. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their clothing they’re originals, people that got turned during the first dark days back during the war, before the armies realized that they had a bigger threat to fight than each other. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He had reported almost every war of the twentieth century, like the Spanish Civil War, and the genocide in East Timor, and bad stuff that happened in Africa. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She went on to explain her belief that “women were the peace-loving half of the world and that by giving power to women we would diminish the possibilities of war.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The war council convened in the Great Hall, at four long trestle tables arranged in a broken square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Van Riper beat Blue Team because of what he had learned about waging war in the jungles of Vietnam. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg said, “Wouldn’t you go to prison to help end this war?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The few doubts being heard stemmed from rumors that the Nobel committee might suspend the prizes for the duration of the European war, which had begun with Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Many times during our journey we were surrounded by muscular men with machetes who almost killed us before they realized that we were just children running away from the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Not war, Kaisa. We are going to free the children taken from us. And I hope the witches will help.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

We had thousands of thumb wars, and I won every single one, even the ones I was trying to lose. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

From his own experiences in Vietnam and his reading of the German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, Van Riper became convinced that war was inherently unpredictable and messy and nonlinear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If the Athena Parthenos was really down here, it could decide the fate of the war. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In 1914, as war broke out in Europe, he began working as a statistical analyst in the City of London. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They might as well have written it on my skin, like they did to the Jews in their camps during the war. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the war had appeared to be so near and now, after the horror of the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, there must be a siege of Petersburg. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men were all getting ready for war. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the war, his father’s kindness was well known throughout the county. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The war is dirty and brutal and difficult. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"I don't think it's so much THAT," argued Lucille skeptically; "it's more that he was a German spy during the war." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“We are a smart people, very strong, tricky, and famous for winning wars. You know Sun Yat-sen, hah?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing guard along either side were dozens of forklifts modified for war. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His smile was sad when he said, “We had a war, didn’t we?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the beginning of the war, the building that Lincoln considers the most important in Washington glows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, during the war I read a lot about flying, especially about our fighter planes, which were shooting down the enemy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the years between the two world wars, children in Soviet schools were treated with complete gender equality, with girls and boys studying the same subjects. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Thrasymedes who could stand his ground in war, stood ready, with a sharp two-bladed axe, for the stroke of sacrifice, and Perseus held a bowl for the blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as he knew, which seemed pretty far, he was the only person still alive who had fought in both of the world wars. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So time passed and the war went on. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a brief second, Cheryl made me feel as if I was a warrior, destined to make it out of the undeclared war that I call home, the projects. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

André refused, for he was well aware that if he disguised himself, he could be hanged as a spy; if he was captured in uniform, he would live as a prisoner of war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because most Americans, including those within law enforcement, want to believe they are nonracist, the suffering in the drug war crosses the color line. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That is only natural, just as it is natural for a man whose life function is the making of money to make money out of a war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nowhere was the war strain more evident than in the intimate crowds of strangers who pushed up against one another in the vehicles making their rounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But somehow, even fifty years later, I keep thinking that there might have been another way, beside war, to achieve the same end. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she had ridden through the heart of die war, through fertile riverlands turned to blackened desert by the fury of the Lannisters, and each night her scouts brought back tales that made her ill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I can see the war on his face. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But here Zizmo spoke up: “Stop bellyaching. The war was the Greeks’ fault.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All four are nineteen years of age, and all four joined up from the same class as volunteers for the war. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staggering racial disparities in the drug war continue but rarely make the news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The second war, I had watched on my TV screen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. But now I look forward till when our son will be a lieutenant commander.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

If the songs were true, as I suppose at least one or two of them were, there had always been wars, and what I’d seen was merely a period of mutual exhaustion. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to get out of the city, to where the war was being fought. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Rasheed stopped to look at an engraved silver dagger in one shop, and, in another, at an old rifle that the shopkeeper assured Rasheed was a relic from the first war against the British. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Edwin Stanton continued to serve as secretary of war during the difficult times of Andrew Johnson’s presidency. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every evening the war correspondents report on the difficulties, the courage and the fighting spirit of the army. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If civilization has an opposite, it is war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon was well aware that voters had not elected him to escalate the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then there was a wild chorus of war cries and hooves thundering against metaL A dozen centaurs charged out of the main stairwell “Ponies!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain could see the men shuffling, strange pathetic spectacle, dusty, dirty, ragged men, heads down, faces down: it reminded him of a history- book picture of impressed seamen in the last war with England. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"All that time I wasted making war when I could have been growing beautiful things." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If the Rebels won the war then we would be a country; but Father was sure they were going to lose, to I decided not to count us. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He insisted that the war wouldn't last long and since he had a job, we would be safe. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“So many years, so many wars, so many kings ... you’d think someone would have made a peace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t the war he wanted. The one he wanted was on poverty and ignorance and disease, and that was worth putting your life into.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Parthia and Rome had been engaged in a tug of war for decades as provinces along the eastern border of Rome’s territory changed hands and shifted loyalties. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

I learned to prefer peace to war, cleverness to stupidity, love to hate, sensitivity to stoicism, humility to pomposity, reconciliation to hostility, harmony to strife, patience to rashness, gregariousness to misanthropy, creation to annihilation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the country's least-discussed postwar problems is how frequently combat veterans bring the traumas of war back with them and are incarcerated after returning to their communities. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to the Millennium Challenge scenario, a rogue military commander had broken away from his government somewhere in the Persian Gulf and was threatening to engulf the entire region in war. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

By winter, the United States was at war and tobacco companies were supplying free cigarettes to soldiers, so the market was booming. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

George Washington was fighting a war with a visible army and an invisible army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, the Japanese and Italian prisoners of war interned at the Greenbrier went home, but Howard Vaughan stayed on, continuing his summer work at the grand hotel alongside Joshua Coleman. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But they’re not all yateem. Many of them have lost their fathers in the war, and their mothers can’t feed them because the Taliban don’t allow them to work. So they bring their children here.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“All alone at the war with no new girls.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It is, as it happens, an instance from my own experience, an episode that took place before the war, around 1935. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mentioning the war is a quick way to silence my house. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Jose, for a long time you and me and the people of this village, we have—or rather we should have—been at war with that man.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet peacetime brought no permanent relief from his inner war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But you could lose the war up here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atahuallpa and his army came to be at Cajamarca because they had just won decisive battles in a civil war that left the Incas divided and vulnerable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And beyond that, she said that plenty of married women have lovers—and sometimes their husbands die young, especially in a time of war. Can you believe that?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Soon my headgear lost its nighttime war against the forces of crookedness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even if Madoc believes Balekin will give him the wars he wants, it seems as though he could have gotten those some other way. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But it was a war, and he had his orders, so they’d set up a perimeter and crawled under their ponchos and tried to settle in for the night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not speak of war, for a good reason; there’s no word for it in Karhidish. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know, we came up here to get away from things— politics, the atom bomb, war, pressure groups, prejudice, laws—I know. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wounded by flying metal scraps earlier in the war, he’d pulled out his pocketknife and dug the steel from his thigh. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of countrified folks yelling and screaming, waving flags and chewing tobacco, forcing confused kids to crawl through mud, preparing them to get killed in a war? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Just as soon as he got back from the war. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He waited in the grove, listening to the enormous sound of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war, Fuchs had returned to Britain and continued working for the government. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if we had been forced together by some overwhelming circumstance, like war or plague, and shared a world of our own. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The world had little sympathy for the suffering of the German people after the war,” said Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tony wears the permanent scars of war on his face, just as I wear the scars on my soul. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every man here knows that we are losing the war. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the cupola, looked out across the field of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the war never ended after all, it just broke up into pieces and got scattered, it gets in everywhere, you can’t shut it out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And how go the wars? Be they going well? Hast heard how ’tis with my lord the King?” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

If North Vietnam agreed to a cease-fire and returned the American prisoners of war, Nixon said, he would end the bombing and withdraw the remaining American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They are Edith Cavell’s, the British nurse who smuggled two hundred Allied soldiers out of Belgium in The Last Lot, the 1914—1918 war, and who was caught and shot for treason. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If I live through this war, can I live with having done nothing, or will my life be poisoned with regret? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The place was never mortared, never taken under fire, and the war seemed to be somewhere far away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some years later when the colonies began fighting to separate from Britain, the Cherokee again found themselves in the middle of warring nations seeking to enlist them as allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hitler’s aggressive actions made war seemed almost inevitable, and battleships and submarines started patrolling the oceans and coastlines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He also chaired the Science Advisory Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization, a successor to the technology committees organized by Vannevar Bush during the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Anglicans too went in for uttered miliury flags, and war memorials of other kinds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each breath she took was like a war won against the steely fist that was trying to squeeze the air from her lungs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does Isolde think of your war work?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Richard Nixon said, “I will not be the first president of the United States to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Out in the fields the dead lay everywhere in the litter of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he was well inclined toward stubbornness, and contemptuous of failure, long before his conscription into the war and the strange circumstances that discharged him from it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson also heard trumpets blowing, though for him they were “trumpets of civil war.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was difficult for her to distinguish these moments from the deeper anguish of his war wounds. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The War Department hired women to pose as mannequins and stand in the windows of Norfolk’s Smith & Welton department store, their task to entice other women to apply for war jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“These boys stopped a range war. Talk about using your head, Mary Eve. These boys ran straight to town to warn us. Didn’t stop there, though. Scared off a fence cutter on the Kerensky place.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Human fallibility is always a part of war, and the price for it is always high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t want to lose soldiers, you shouldn’t have started a war.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Painful as the war was, it was exciting too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or should they just sit tight and let this terrible thing happen the way terrible things had been happening now ever since the 1848 war, trusting that, like Amarante Cordova, they could somehow, miraculously, survive? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘They have no need to ride to war; war already marches on their own lands.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was a man known as Hig Phillips down in the southern part of the county, and the story came out that he had hired a substitute to go to war for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis was at war with the system, but as long as he kept his war out of the house and stayed in medical school, that was okay with Mommy. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I hadn’t known him, his death brought the war all that much closer to home. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anyone who studied the early years of Sudan might have seen civil war in its future. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Biafra will win this war, God has written it in the sky,” said a man with a beard braided in a single thin strand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If you support a war, if you think it’s worth the price, that’s fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations, scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I guess a privateer would be a pirate in peacetime. But this is war. We only capture English ships.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are sent off to help the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people felt sorry for them and offered them places to stay, but most of the refugees refused, because they said the war would eventually reach our town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, one of the badges is purple and gold, which means Chian was a war hero once— although I have a hard time believing that he ever risked his life to save his comrades. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"His Grace has prohibited all feasting until such time as the war is won." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Within a year Gnadenhütten would be the scene of one of the most outrageous war crimes of that period. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Abra knew she was losing not only the battle but the whole war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was exhilarating to know that the tide of the war had turned, even though there was still a long way to go before the enemy was defeated. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Because his job involved one of the most secret projects of the entire war, he couldn’t even state exactly what he did all day. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Twenty Important and Interesting Facts About the Civil War A One of the reasons the Civil War continues to have an impact on the nation is that so many people died during the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper is splashed with headlines about the surprise attack and the announcement that President Roosevelt has asked Congress to declare war on Japan. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bloody glove ...” “... means war,” said the queen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The idea of living through an actual war is not something I’ve ever thought about. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The case involved Indiana citizens convicted by a military tribunal of conspiring to aid the Confederacy during the war. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He says he’ll never go over there and help England win a war. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Union troops were camped out in fields around the city, and tent hospitals were built there to treat the many returning war wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A coppersmith had fashioned her a suit of burnished rings to wear to war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though the words they sing describe images of blood and war, the girls smile. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read about some photographers in an underground paper. They take pictures of the occupation. They document it, so when the war is over, the Germans can’t lie about what they did here.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each of them hurled insults and barbs in a war of words. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had hoped to see it again but read in the papers that because of the imminence of war, the film had been banned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war has been declared, now it’s a fight for power, money, and territory; we are killing each other over race, pride, and respect. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

White Harbor was weary of war, he was reported to have said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wore civilian clothes, replaced the soldiers with unarmed policemen, enforced the amnesty laws, and helped a few families of Liberals who had been killed in the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He is one of the first of the new soldiers, the cold-eyed men who have sensed the birth of the new war of machines. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Shameful, really. If nobody fought in wars, there wouldn’t be any, would there? But you can’t get old rabbits to see that.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time the drug war was declared, illegal drug use and abuse was not a pressing concern in most communities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was war that made her so angry. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nadezhda Degtereva, who disguised herself as a man so she could go to war, became the first woman to be wounded in air combat—though the medics who treated her wounds discovered her secret. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t much older than Tayo; maybe they both had been in the war together. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"They had a WAC station up there, didn't they, during the war?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the mechanics, who had been pilots before the war, struggled not to feel bitter about it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As Roosevelt drove, the two men began talking over the state of the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the war ended, Elizebeth’s work offered no more moments of nail-biting suspense, just endless tedium. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Was this something to do with the war? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Yet it seemed that the war had ended too soon and he had not contributed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There could be remnants of civilizations destroyed by wars or by beasts or by immune systems that failed a sudden bacterial pop quiz. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “I lectured you yesterday, on war.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Once the war is over . . . everything will work out for Nico. You’ve done what you could, being a friend to him.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That could be done not through scientific and technical expertise but only by eradicating war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It seems odd to introduce myself to a boy in the middle of a war zone. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mired in low-level tasks, Elizebeth must have longed to do something more to help win the war—especially since her own children were headed into harm’s way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The war left 53 million dead, mostly young men in their late teens and early twenties. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"The realm needs a strong Hand. Joff will not come of age for years. No one wants war again, least of all me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The true Age of Sugar had begun—and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire, or war had ever done. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I am a woman of peaceful Chiffewar, and no expert on the attractions of violence or the nature of war. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Jack grew stronger and healthier, he was convinced once more that he would survive the war and be reunited with his family. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In performing this ceremony, Octavian appeared to declare war on Cleopatra and Cleopatra alone. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We lost the flare of excitement and we had not yet put on the doggedness of a long war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

An audience digesting war as spectacle may have a very different idea of the correct ethos for an eve-of-battle speech than the men at the sharp end. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The only time we are on the same side is when we’re at war and when Army plays Navy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers stroll past, looking like they’re still on duty when everyone knows the war ended a year ago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were to press the war home to its real lords—until they themselves were ready to refrain from warfare, being confronted with its reality. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After smallpox wiped out much of the political elite, each panaqa tried to move into the vacuum, stoking the passions of the civil war. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There followed a terrible war between Cronus, helped by his brother Titans, against Zeus with his five brothers and sisters—a war that almost wrecked the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he oppressed his own people; he made war on his neighbors; he quite rightly feared invasion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, we met every afternoon and discussed the details, like we were planning a war. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The war filters in over the radio, remote and crackly, the voices from London fading through the static. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Schindler had expanded his factory beyond pots and pans to producing war material. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most consisted of two squadrons of ten aircraft apiece; Marina Raskova’s three female regiments were not going to change the outcome of an air war on this scale. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’d heard that most human civil wars started as fights between Greek and Roman demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The war did not disturb them there, and they continued to view themselves as exceedingly fortunate in the particulars of their secret existence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are wars, fights and slaughters, as before, but more confused and with intertwined arms and legs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Small talk of husbands, children, lives back home, or the ever-present war rose above the thunder and hum of the giant laundry boilers and dryers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He cursed the weak-willed men of the town who did not understand the freedom a man of the llano must have, and he cursed the war for taking his sons away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began by talking about Vietnam, announcing he had decided against further escalation of the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Two world wars ago, battlefield nurses gave cups of tea to the wounded and it leaked through their bullet holes and killed them. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It promised to be the worst day of the war. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made such an impression on him that from then on he detested military practices and war, not because of the executions but because of the horrifying custom of burying the victims alive. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After all, like you say, Britain lost a lot in that war too.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t have a daughter, since you abandoned her when she was little and went to war,” the sister-in-law argued. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One had so many friends in a war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Neither Briony nor the war had destroyed it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hitler's war machine, the blitzkrieg, knows only destruction. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Flying straight into either one is very likely to kill you; but in war, sometimes there is no turning back. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Most of us Marines were spending more time joking and talking about how the war had to end soon than worrying about the impending battle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, after the war I’d like to publish a book called The Secret Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t after the memory serum. They were after poison—death serum. So that they could kill a bunch of important government people and start a war.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Far to the west of Saratov and Stalingrad, across the English Channel, British women—and a few from other Allied nations as well—were also flying planes to support the war effort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That means they can fight lions, go to war, and have all of the privileges of adulthood except marriage, which Dinka men traditionally put off until they are about age thirty. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know of him. He is a great war leader, a hero! He is not...” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

This brought the war home in a whole new way. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just before he arrived, the third war between the Ptolemies and the Seleucid Empire broke out, this time over a succession dispute. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She was against the war too; that wasn’t the point. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he believes that Javier’s Dreamers book could ever be something that led to greed or war. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thanks to him, it turns out that I didn't die from the last bullet of the war after all. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I believed the war had made only the smallest possible dent in our plans. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A workers’ strike could cut off food supplies, jeopardizing the war effort. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"I'm the goddess of war—I have them all. But did Belet teach you how to fight?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Billy expected the Tralfamadorians to be baffled and alarmed by all the wars and other forms of murder on Earth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were concerns that Hani’s death might trigger a racial war, with the youth deciding that their hero should become a martyr for whom they would lay down their own lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These lives were lived in parallel—war was a hobby for the enthusiasts and no less serious for that. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If things got worse in Europe, philanthropic spending would grind to a halt in the United States; even if the war clouds dispelled, millions of dollars would shift to Europe for economic reconstruction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“He cried last night after you left, Sam, maybe he knows something about wars that you don’t.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since we were so far out of the line of fire, the chief sustenance for any sense of the war was mental. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all the talk, the war was still far away. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jojo was ready to go to war for you though,” Malik says with a smirk. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I look at him with the nostalgic affection men are said to feel for their wars, their fellow veterans. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

More exactly, the reasons for which war is waged have changed in their order of importance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Others whisper that she has no place in my war councils, that 1 ought to send her back to Asshai, that it is sinful to keep her in my tent of a night. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I continued the letter to Charlie, writing about everything other than the war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Paris Peace Accords went nowhere, and public opinion kept turning further against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

L. F. Richardson was a British meteorologist interested in war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my family talks about the war, I pretend to have no memory of it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer looked back at his father, conflicted emotions warring within him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bound by oaths of secrecy, she could tell no one what she had accomplished during the war, not even her husband. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Employers were eliminating jobs no longer needed now that the war was over. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

During the war, Lincoln and Seward had become good friends and trusted confidants. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason is simple: nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than this ongoing war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and the 332nd Fighter Group took the war to the Axis powers from thirty thousand feet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“But war’s not something ye talk about in the open air when the sun is shining.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Duke was captured after the battle of Richmond and spent a few months as a prisoner before being released at war’s end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Often the war of wills goes on for quite a time, I squinching my eyes shut and he forgiving me, but he nearly always wins. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, the war had created a sharp, angry division between the “hawks” who supported the war effort and the “doves” who wanted peace. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A man's work kept the back and arm strong for war. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His idea is to have me lie low, remain safe and imprisoned, while the war plays out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Berlin's role as the main stage of the espionage wars came to an abrupt end. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the early part of the war’s fourth year, General Grant was placed in command of all the armies of the United States. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it’s safe to say that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were images of blue-clad soldiers marching off to war next to mass graves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It is true! The Scottish wars are over, and my father is alive!” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was the first time they had returned to the Balkans since they fled the war in the winter of ’93. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty thousand swords and spears had gone off to war with Robb, or near enough to make no matter, but only two in ten were coming back, and most of those were Dreadfort men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her husband had never come back from a past war, and her children were all grown and gone. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

This fact was no deterrent to Reagan, for the drug war from the outset had little to do with public concern about drugs and much to do with public concern about race. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the war is over there will be a ”right side” to land upon. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a war on,” I added, to remind her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I knew the sounds of war before I knew how to do a cartwheel. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Anyone who came of age in the Soviet Union during the 1930s was not going to let class awareness affect her commitment to the urgent demands of war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

During these dark days and terrifying nights, Blake's opinions about the war—and about which side was right, and which was wrong—began to change. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Winter came and winter went, and the war went on in the same distant way. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

State Department decided to allow certain refugees from the Sudanese civil war into the United States. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet my last dollar,” Mr. Rodriguez said, “that there will be another war. Probably something in the Middle East.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It's navy, already tighter than it should be, frayed at the hem and several years old, from before the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Far Common could be seen from the window of my room, and early in June I stood at the window and watched the war moving in to occupy it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, he made it sound as if he were condemning both sides in the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He told me that after the war he wanted to go to the Dutch East Indies and live on a rubber plantation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I have' the feeling that we could win the real war and still lose the psychological war. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A casualty of war? How can you say that? A life is a life.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The rumor is that this colonel ran an entire automobile company before the war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“There would be no wars, slaughter, or murder; no greed or selfishness. It would be the kind of world that God wants us to have—a wonderful world.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, I was terrified of car accidents, death, cancer, brain tumors, nuclear war, pregnant women, loud noises, strict teachers, elevators, and scads of other things. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They, too, went to war and conquered other nations around them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s a historian, an expert on the goblin-elf wars of centuries past. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Again the wars were ‘inevitable’ and this time there were atomic weapons, so that mankind could no longer live through its torment to the inevitable wasting away of inevitability.—And positronic robots came. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And the war was over, and we wanted to get out and make it on our own. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery—perhaps one out of every ten native adults in the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The goblin-dwarf turf war had flared up again, and every morning hordes of angry parents showed up demanding the release of their innocent offspring. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A hot afternoon, a bright August sun, and the war was over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the largest war galley in the royal fleet, four hundred oars, the only warship the boy king owned capable erf overmatching Fury. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The result of this tug of war was a curved path through the sides, and a constantly changing speed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the outset, the drug war could have been waged primarily in overwhelmingly white suburbs or on college campuses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t start a war,” Werfel almost said, but he remembered he was the host and it would be impolite to argue. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“We’d like to stick together for the rest of the war, sir. Is there some way you can fix it so nobody will ever break up the Three Musketeers?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The country filled with men in uniform, with war machines, flags, hymns, and parades, because the military understood the need for the people to have their own rituals and symbols. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a rare farm in the Sheldon area that was blessed by the presence of a cat after the war on beetles was begun. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was clear that Spurge did not want to discuss the wars against the goblins again, or Werfel’s dead girlfriend. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“He used to say he’d gone to war to fight monsters,” I said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“You know I don’t like you watching war movies,” she scolded me with her hands on her hips. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One day, however, it will appear as a deed greater than the most victorious wars of our present bourgeois era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their point is particularly relevant to the predicament of minority police officers charged with waging the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In war, his father had told him once, the battle is over in the instant one army breaks and flees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were almost overcome by their own mercenary soldiers after the first war with the Romans, even though the Carthaginians had their own citizens as officers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He would have been thrilled had I shown an interest in tribal war games in which men and boys fought each other with spears and knobkerries. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had poor eyesight and chronic sinus trouble, which made war especially exciting for him, since he was in no danger of going overseas. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The same is true in the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Would we still be here after the war? Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact they cared not at all about the war, about scientific inventions, about the advance of industry, the price of gold, or the latest extravaganzas in the world of fashion. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a good reason for new war games,” Quintus continued, a glint in his eyes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

These two groups were obliged to work side by side in the war plants, and their animosities festered and opened like boils on the face of the city. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet by 1987, when the drug war hit high gear, the industrial employment of black men had plummeted to 28 percent. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We could trade war stories about our latest dermatologist visits and new favorite products. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Nigeria. Isn’t there a war going on there?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You see if the war went on they would make bad trouble for his family.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Corporal Z had been X’s jeep partner and constant companion from D Day straight through five campaigns of the war. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A vicious roar erupted from the crowd like a war cry as Mark paused to take them all in. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“No American president, Republican or Democrat, wanted to be the president who lost the war or who lost Saigon,” Ellsberg realized. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Destroyed by your kind long ago, in a great war. I am Rowan Goldgale, king of the sand efrits. I will claim your souls as mine.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The next day, the United States went to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

During this same time period, however, a war was declared, causing arrests and convictions for drug offenses to skyrocket, especially among people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The men spread the jam on the bread and drank their wine, discussing politics and war and armies over the stacks of money on my master’s desk. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without being too hyperbolic: Battles were won and lost, and wars, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I am only saying that the situation is serious. In the beginning our people rushed to donate food, but now they have forgotten. It will be a disaster if war comes.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Being antisocial and aggressive was a flaw in peace and an advantage in war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I still couldn’t believe that the war had actually reached our home. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody who had made money during the war moved as close as they could to the valley, and the white people were buying down river, cross river, stretching Medallion like two strings on the banks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The world’s nations rushed to choose sides, and within a day, eighteen other countries, including the United Kingdom, also declared war on Japan. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lost it in the war. This right here.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Can we start, please? The war will be over before we decide our travel plans.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pax shared his new understanding that the exploding earth was war, and that the wires caused death. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

So our little intrigues played out while women whispered over the backs of the sofas and men, after supper, passed the port and listened to tales of the wars against the French and the Indians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I blushed but managed to get the topic off me and onto news of the war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"If my father makes plans for war, I must know of them. I am not ‘any man,’ I am heir to Pyke and the Iron Islands." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The war, and what happened before, and how much should not have happened. It will be called ‘The World Was Silent When We Died.’” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think the war’s almost over,” Father said. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the war progressed, the youth lost track of their goals and started killing innocent villagers. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the time was right, he would simply declare war on Egypt, a foreign power and Rome’s sworn enemy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg hurried down to the war room in the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This new year, they were sure, would bring about the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We’d fled there many generations before from the highlands of southern Congo during a time of great war and sickness, and settled where the soil was reddish black and fertile as the days were long. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“This war could go on indefinitely,” Westmoreland told Johnson at a meeting in March. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

From that moment the whole war became for me a war against Lin Nai-Nai’s family. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyndon Johnson said, “I’m not going to be the first American president to lose a war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All of them, Werner notices, are in some way broken: they limp, or are blind in one eye, or their faces are lopsided from strokes or the previous war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To Leper it revealed what all of us were seeking: a recognizable and friendly face to the war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war was as remote to her as cavemen and dinosaurs. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also told him that if America spent less money on weapons and war and more on education, the world would be a better place. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"No, not war. My parents have had enough of war." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After the war, the Norfolk Naval Base confirmed its command of the Atlantic Fleet and was appointed the headquarters of the navy’s air command. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There’s exactly one school week left before exams, as next Friday is the official designated day off to study, so he tells us that he’s going to cram the history of war into four days. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

According to the Geneva Convention you’re allowed to send useful things to prisoners of war—cigarettes, toothbrushes, fruitcakes with hacksaws inside. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It didn’t sound like much but after the war you would see colored folks trave I ing the countryside just like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one-level warehouse is gray with age, crumbling from the destruction of war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want this war to end so that he can come back. He has become somebody else.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I certainly hope you enjoyed your little science fair victory party last night. Because this is war.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Many of his colleagues knew that he'd had some kind of breakdown during the war, and that he was still somewhat fragile, but they didn’t know much more than that. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We listened to Sergeant Dongan talk about how hard things had been in the Korean war, and how tough the Koreans had been. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing the pattern, the way all the stories fit together—the old stories, the war stories, their stories—to become the story that was still being told. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were traveling through a part of Sudan still plagued by war. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never in a million years had he thought his grandmother would need rescuing, but now he started running combat scenarios in his mind-—the way he had back at camp during the war games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The only way we could lose the war,” said physicist Philip Morrison, “was if we failed in our jobs.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The end of the spy wars left the CIA with a lot of cleaning up to do and unresolved questions to be reckoned with. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A civil war had to be waged to end slavery; a mass movement was necessary to bring a formal end to Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of airplanes and bombs and war!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her hair is a sad, ragged helmet, like she’s the loser in the war. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Others had escaped but hadn’t surfaced after the war’s end, including Mama Evangeline. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was now five weeks since the war started. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

These young people showed an indifference toward the war, disrupted youth service obligations, and listened illegally to foreign radio broadcasts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been brought up by an uncle in San Francisco and was visiting his father and mother in Torino when war was declared. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Although the vision of the date palms would someday be just a memory, right now it signified shade, water, and a refuge from the war. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so it came to pass that the normal, happy event of dividing food after a hunt became a war of insults and rage and starving bellies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French girls didn’t look like they’d been through a war; they wore pretty, ruffled skirts, white ankle socks, and silk scarves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the ensuing civil war, which lasted until 2003, some three hundred thousand died, and countless fled into the mountains or into refugee camps in Tanzania and Mozambique. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

With a few interruptions— major wars that have taken the young men at each school off to other, more hazardous occupations—the Harvard-Yale Regatta has been raced every subsequent year since 1859. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

An old war buddy he’d kept in touch with or something. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Action shots flash across the screen: cowboys on horseback, pistols gleaming at their hips; quiet villages of tepees; violent war scenes; a kiss between a cowboy and a Native girl. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed proudly at it as his armorer dressed him for war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Stalin called Churchill's speech "an appeal to war with the USSR." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Technically, Hawaii wasn’t US soil. It didn’t become a state until 1959. But, yes”—Mr. Schmidt stops writing—“the attack led to America’s entry into the war.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here they were, hiding behind a wall in the middle of a magical war zone, with grenades and grizzly bears and Bronze Butt Nikettes to worry about, and Percy pulls this on him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In fact that made the war seem more unreal than ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oak, maple, and poplar; sumac, wild-grape, and dogwood—they all smiled at him that afternoon, and they said, “What war, little boy, what war?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bleary-eyed and ready for war, I stumbled into the living room, but I wasn’t the first to arrive. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Same thing as before. Make all same again. But only after big trouble, big war. Spirit war.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The excitement here has died down somewhat; still, were all hoping that the war will finally be over by the end of the year. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

From there the power was spreading far and wide, and away far east and south there were wars and growing fear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they’d settled. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The National Party accepted the most hidebound of 1950s cold war ideology and regarded the Soviet Union as the evil empire and communism as the work of the devil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both cases, war tore our fathers apart as well as our families. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When France fell there would be no end of the war in sight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It is safest to be far away from the capital if war comes here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Running to their lodges, they grabbed weapons—guns and bows and arrows, war clubs, and lances—and ran toward the sound of the guns. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Most slaves were prisoners of war, seized in intertribal conflicts and sold by enemy Indian groups to the English in exchange for guns, pots, and axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“America,” he said, “will lose the war. And Italy will win it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Although there is no direct link between this incident and spymaster Washington at that time, later in the war he would often use such tricks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, as if someone was shooting them inside my brain, all the massacres I had seen since the day I was touched by war began flashing in my head. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

While Ma and Pa help the war effort in the fields, Kim returns home each night from his work as the chief’s errand boy bruised and injured from his own war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My playmates and I carved them and played war games in the coffee farms and unfinished buildings at my grandmother’s village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What did this war mean for “Americas tenth man,” the one in ten citizens who were part of the country’s largest minority group? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘Are you sure your mom is a war goddess?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He says this war is none of our business because the English are up to their tricks again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

No impartial observer could criticize this Court for hindering the progress of the war on drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the radio, at the end of the war, they said the enemy was using nerve gas, bacteria, and “other antipersonnel weapons.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all there, starting with Truman’s decision to back France’s war to recapture its former colony, knowing a majority of people in Vietnam supported independence and Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Sons of the Harpy had resumed their shadow war two days ago. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She did not seem to understand that he could not comprehend a war at all, brief or not. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was in a movie scene—a ten-year-old girl sitting in the center of the frame, while war raged around her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

No matter how much my parents wanted to shield me, there was no way of protecting me from the growing fear that soon we would be at war with Germany. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In his manuscript about the war, he only said, “I opened a private correspondence with some persons in New York....” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought there was a great war coming that would involve everyone. Which side would you fight for in that case?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We were always either at the front lines, watching a war movie, or doing drugs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Helmuth lies awake for a long while, wondering if Germany deserves to win such a war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A bad thing, this war. What are you going to do—how will you find them?” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do not explain why the US military waged a ground war against Indigenous nations for more than a century after that, and why conflict continues today in the courts of the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They are depressed because Toronto isn’t the United States without a war on, as they thought it would be, but some limbo they have strayed into by accident and can’t get out of. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

If we lose the war, she ought to take up mummery, she has a gift for it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Sir, how will we make a settlement if this is Indian land? Will we have a war?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In Pyke, it would seem, the old wars were still being fought. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A war correspondent triumphantly announced that the lodgment area from which the Allied Armies would soon launch their major offensive into the heart of occupied France was now adequate and secure. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He wore Roman sandals with the lacings coming to his knees, a short skirt of feathers and a war bonnet all of which were painted in bright reds, blues and yellows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of his three brothers, only Ring had survived the war. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting grew no less desperate at the end of the war, which meant that no one was safe—not even from their own regulations. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Like thunder, like an avalanche, like the war cry of the seraphim who had come on wings of fire and cleansed the world of demons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the stories, the other Pandavas didn’t even know he was their brother until the war had begun. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The engine of Polina’s Po-2 overheated on the longer flight, and she and her pilot were now going to have to make a crash landing, only a week before the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

One says he knew a guy Michael sang Kevin Barry but he died of the drink which he had because of his war wounds. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Man, them white folks oughta catch you and send you to the zoo and keep you for the next war!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler had unleashed his blitzkrieg across Europe, his Soviet allies had followed, and the continent had exploded into total war. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“But there’s a tribal war,” the boy reiterated. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Julia replied, To assure us that our wonderful war is going swimmingly when in fact it’s going down the toilet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boys’ groups divided into platoons for war games, and they hunted down the “enemy.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The best way I can. Don’t worry, darling. We may have several babies before the war is over.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The CIA also admitted that, in the midst of the War on Drugs, it blocked law enforcement efforts to investigate illegal drug networks that were helping to fund its covert war in Nicaragua. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He probably got ‘war machine’ from one of his fifteen-year-old girlfriends. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man’s soul. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“A full grown man—a captain in the war.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the Sleepers only gave their permission because they didn’t want a war with the Justices.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women of the 122nd Air Group who were going to be fighter pilots and dive-bomber pilots had to learn to fly new planes before they went to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Well, the palm trees in our courtyard were ripped and flattened from the wind of the helicopters, and looked far too defeated by war to accept my prayers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let us study war as if it were, as Einstein aptly called it, an illness of childhood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to talk about those good times before the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The tug of war ended almost before it began as the sack ripped and articles of clothing spilled everywhere. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know in my past life what I could have been— probably was a war general, maybe in Egypt. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler might lose the war, but he wouldn’t be willing to surrender all the art he had stolen. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the desert, I saw images of war and death. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He imagined covering his head and lying in a deep hole and closing his eyes and not moving until the war was over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the spoils of war, money to pay the troops came out of Cleopatra’s treasury and is own pocket. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Five different kinds of overpowering cologne waged war in my sinuses as I passed the store. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was a Buddhist and believed in the laws of karma, so it made sense to him that he might pay for his war murders: everything comes back to you, nothing is accidental. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Tomahawks were in the middle of a protracted, two-pronged war against rival gangs, the Mongols from Sixteenth Avenue and the Dirty Dozen from Eleventh Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the war in Europe ended eight days later, it was overshadowed by the news from Baltimore that Caroline had been accepted by the Juilliard School of Music in New York on a full scholarship. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cambodia is fighting a war that I do not understand and that is enough of your questions,” he said and became quiet. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sides fought a civil war and tough stains from that war remain. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But mostly, the war stayed away from us. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got used to dropping out of school and fleeing every time a new war broke out.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“After all,” I repeated, “there is a war on.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s shocking to think that he lived through such a terrible war. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I ask your pardon for our deception. The only ships sailing for Slaver’s Bay were those that had been hired to bring you to the wars.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To pay for the war, the prime minister decided to put some teeth into the legislation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Just like war. War swims along, sees food, contracts. A moment later—Earth is gone.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we’re still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I did. After the war. Took me years.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The situation again became as tense as it had been during the months that preceded the first war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. de Vries is one of those people who behave as if the war is a nuisance happening in the periphery around her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They knew that the public at home had doubts about the rightness of the war, and he wanted to reassure them and tell them why they were there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The demonstrators' defiance made a strong statement: We reject this war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the tsar for starting this war in the first place. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime he was chatting with Arcadio, who was already a huge adolescent, and he found him more and more excited over the imminence of war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Yes, I know it must all sound hostile, but this is war. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the past, wars had tended to be resolved when the belligerent princes had exhausted their resources. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were old enough to remember when rags became felt for the war effort, when cans and scrap metal could become bullets and cans of grease explosives. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Rashid didn’t answer as he sent a silent prayer to Allah to take care of the teacher and young girl who should not have been caught in a war zone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As often happens in war, nations make difficult choices, and often there are disagreements on a course of action. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Horns were blown and trumpets were braying, and the mûmakil were bellowing as they were goaded to war. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

More than anything else, I think, Maddie went to war on behalf of the Holy Island seals. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s not enough, you know. Not to go to war with the Merchant Council.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The war in her eyes clashed right over my head. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh well, he d sold off them medals and give the money to war widows and orphans. ’ A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The war brought thousands of people to the city. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Following Kennedy’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson embraced the antipoverty rhetoric with great passion, calling for an “unconditional war on poverty,” in his State of the Union Address in January 1964. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If I could get there, I would stash the swan in her barn until the war was over. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the president wasn’t exactly lying, he certainly was going out of his way to downplay what he knew was a major commitment to war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If they’re as concerned about this matter as they claim, then let them judge the evidence in the case and cease using the case as manufactured evidence to wage war against segregation. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Others wept while they shouted; there was hardly a home in the county that had not felt the fiery lash of the war’s tongue. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed someone to talk to so as to avoid thinking about the possibility of war. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a Patriot, but he didn’t approve of the war. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a war in the East, an Unseelie king with a lot of territory and no desire to bend his knee to the High King. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Those,” Frank said, “are the most disgusting spoils of war ever.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The rebels planted the seeds of war, let them enjoy their harvest.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate to stop such an alliance, Wentworth begged Franklin to talk to British officials and end the war—on British terms. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weary was as new to war as Billy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown up in a land where war was so common, we basically sighed and said, “Oh man, this again?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“So, you wanted me to be ‘prosperous in war’? I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He would like the war to be over.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even the geographical knowledge that one needed in transferring the war ffom one part of the world to another was considerable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“What are you saying? We are not to be at war. I will let you have your little factory when we are married. But first, the weapons.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The Khmer Rouge lied. They have won the war, and we cannot go back. You must stop thinking we can go back. You have to forget Phnom Penh.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My war had been so long, my winters so cold. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He believed America would win the war, and he knew, even after all he’d endured, that if he had a future it still lay in this country. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either he really loved history, or he really loved this war in particular. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“In war time a mild conventional appeal for justice will not be heard.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He would continue battling the German army until the end of the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not going to be the president who lost the war and let that happen. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"This is the way of war. These women are our slaves now, to do with as we please." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Having said this he took his tail in his claws, and pulled the poison war spike from its tip. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even though I know that war owns you, I don't care if you don’t want to talk about it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“We take no sides. This is a wizards’ war.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You warned King Cleon against this war with Yunkai. The man was a fool, and his hands were red with blood.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Germans continue to strike Poland hard and fast, in a new kind of warfare called a Blitzkrieg, a lightning-fast war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time I eat grits, it becomes perfectly clear to me why the South lost the war.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archimedes first glimpsed the infinite in the polish of his war mirrors. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I think Pa knew his brother was being changed by the war when I showed him that letter back then. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Long before apartheid existed these tribal factions clashed and warred with one another. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

These campaigns were called the Crusades and were framed as religious wars between Christianity and Islam. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Should Israel lose but one war, it would mean her end and ours as well. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British hospital was a big villa built by Germans before the war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

By war’s end, the Coalwood mine was a lucrative little operation, envied across the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The left column reported on the war in the Orient. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The spring dust storms of the llano continued, and I heard many grown-ups blame the harsh winter and the sandstorms of spring on the new bomb that had been made to end the war. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time they were on their own and they were at war at the front. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had a man's needs, after all, and they had spent that year apart, Ned off at war in the south while she remained safe in her father's castle at Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The picture cut to an aerial shot of snowy hills, dotted like a war map with pinprick figures, Mount Cataract looming lopsided and huge in the foreground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So when I started explaining McCoy and Celia and everything that had happened this year, she absorbed it the way my parents absorbed war documentaries: with complete seriousness. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Mo had parked in the village square beside the memorial for the dead of two world wars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eaten by Confederate soldiers during the war when rail lines were cut off, making food and rations scarce. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“One daughter of a war goddess to another, I respect your boldness. But if you leave now, you doom your camp to destruction.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"What part about her being the goddess of love and war don't you get?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Or else she slept through the last hours of the war and the city has been liberated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No one can accuse this state of not supporting the war effort.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Because I'd spent more than two years and all of a war feeling that myself, certain that my actions had caused the death of someone important to me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The rain was the war and you had to fight it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war would be over and he’d still be sitting there fussing about his shoestrings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the treaty that ended the war, France turned over all territory in North America east of the Mississippi River to the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be a sap,” he gazed with cool self-possession at me, “there isn’t any war.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned about it over the years from my parents, who told stories of our roots when I asked about various conflicts and wars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Whites should demonstrate that their silence in the drug war cannot be bought by tacit assurances that their sons and daughters will not be rounded up en masse and locked away. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It depends on how long the war lasts,” Bull said, grinning. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t let their innocent faces fool you. They’re traitors to the war effort. Spies for Germany. The penalty for hiding them ...” “We aren’t hiding anything,” the leader said gruffly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

One of the most famous resistance groups was the White Rose, headed by Hans Scholl and his close-knit group of fellow students who had grown disillusioned with the Nazi government and the war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For a second I thought he was Ares, because this guy looked exactly like the god of war—tall and buff, with a cruel scarred face and closely shaved black hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought we’d always been at war with Eurasia,” she said vaguely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Those are her old blackout curtains from the war,” Miss Volker explained. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I said the war will happen for dozens of reasons, not for one. Another of the reasons for this particular war is because Queen Morgause wears the trousers. Perhaps I ought to say the trews.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at seventy-seven, he's long since ceased leading men into border wars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

On Friday, when Januka goes inside, he says, “Have you thought about what you want to do after the war?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All that talk of the war we were fighting in Korea made a lot more people on television discuss bomb shelters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the freezing cold of Bismarck, North Dakota, he’d been housed with German prisoners of war. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I asked him if he had ever worked with a proper staff under him, perhaps before the war, he replied: 'Oh, in those days, I was just a footman. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey,” Mom replied, sticking with what was on her mind, “does your dad know you have all this dangerous war stuff out?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For George Blake and his fellow prisoners, now being moved from location to location by their captors, all of North Korea had become a scorched war zone. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’ll help Jack to know he’s not alone in this war,” she explained. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Hornburg it was called, for a trumpet sounded upon the tower echoed in the Deep behind, as if armies long-forgotten were issuing to war from caves beneath the hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But by the end of the war, well over a hundred women flew planes for Marina’s regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He knew that the Lakota warrior was a better war fighter than the Long Knife soldier. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, we were at war with Japan, so...” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Instead of going off to war he was going to night school and helping out at the bar during the day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

According to military theory, “regular warfare,” or “conventional warfare,” refers to war between two or more nations, using battlefield tactics and typical weapons of war. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The latter point became an article of faith within the Jefferson-Madison collaboration—namely, that Adams actually wanted war with France. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I warrant I missed something fine with Henry Henry. But there is time, sir, there is plentiful time in this war for Henry Henry and, if I commence English, for Aubrey Aubrey, too.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Those issues had seemed comparatively straightforward while the Allied war effort remained primarily focused on the Nazi regime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Marina had sent her mother, Anna, and her daughter, Tanya, to safety in a town far up the Volga River when war had first broken out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Before we leave, we will ensure peace, by eliminating any chance of a future war.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Germany wanted to stoke unrest there to weaken Britain and distract it from the war in Europe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were a guerrilla force, he said, made up of young Pashtun men whose families had fled to Pakistan during the war against the Soviets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One would have thought a full-scale civil war was under way from the precautions the state was taking with us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sentiment: Expresses the living conditions of Confederate soldiers and the public, as the war was lost. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard about stories like these, about people who flee their homes in a war with nothing but the clothes and food on their backs. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Divide into groups and read Eli Landers letters from different years comparing changes in attitude for a confederate soldier over time from the beginning of the war to the end of the war. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So many goblins had lost brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters in the wars. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Perversely I long for the desserts of my childhood, the desserts of war, simple and inexpensive and bland: tapioca pudding, with its gelatinous fish eyes, Jell-O caramel pudding, Junket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I didn’t physically experience a war, my family managed to escape one just in time from Nicaragua. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Put out by the Royal Baking Powder Company, “Best War Time Recipes” was packed with ways to cook to save flour, eggs, and such, what with the war on. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What good is a general with no war?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they were more indulgent toward us than at any other time; they snapped at the heels of the seniors, driving and molding and arming them for the war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

If war damage made it impossible for a city's inhabitants to keep up, they would be in trouble; island dwellers who wreck their homes have no place to move. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Our kitchen would end up looking like a war zone, and Dad would walk in and act all mad like, I won’t be cleaning up this time! The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Kerry the avowed left-winger who decided to protest the Iraq war by getting a bunch of guys to dress up in drag and go down to the local army recruiting office to enlist. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land, resources, and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a ‘global civilization.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In Kabul, fighting kites was a little like going to war. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, during their war for independence from Britain, the separatists relied on militias to fight the British and their Indigenous allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But she stayed in his regiment and flew there with the men until the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“You know a war rages in the city, boy? You know you could be shot dead at any time?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the trial, the appointed defense lawyer presented no evidence about Herbert’s background, his military service, his trauma from the war, his relationship with the victim, his obsession with the girlfriend—nothing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The ghost I talked to explained how Hecate defeated Clytius in the first war. She used her torches to set his hair on fire. He burned to death. In other words, fire is his weakness.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Even warring khalasars put aside their feuds and shared meat and mead together when they were in sight of the Mother of Moun-tains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the platform are men in work caps, women in worn cotton dresses, weary grandmothers embracing grandchildren who were babies before the war. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Executive Order 9066 had been signed by President Roosevelt, giving the War Department authority to define military areas in the western states and to exclude from them anyone who might threaten the war effort. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first six months of the war, the commandos killed 500,000 people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But until the war ended there was nothing for me to do but tread water. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for myself, what joy is this, to have brought off the war? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy hadn’t crossed swords with an opponent like this since...well, since he’d battled the war god Ares. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to be as useful to the war effort as possible,” Plutarch says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I thought he considered wanting war to be part of his role as the general, while part of the High King’s role was to keep him in check. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Because usually they get boys to fight wars. Most of you aren’t old enough to vote yet. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he must focus his mind on the war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there’s a side effect of war I bet you never considered. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Pyrrhic victory is one where you win, but the cost of winning is so high that it would’ve been better if you'd never bothered with the war in the first place. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m in a war with the financial aid office.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he had been saintly before and the war had made him something else. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I'm remembering the fact that nothing in this war is what it seems, and I have spent too much of it not seeing what's in front of my own face. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the war first started and Germans burned down buildings, we hated them for it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Washington newspapers call him the war’s ultimate villain and note that any “kindly feeling” toward the South or its sympathizers has disappeared, thanks to his actions. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

"There's a lot of war in Afghanistan too." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The manual workers, The Club, left almost in a body to work in war projects plants. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To assassinate President Snow before the loss of life from this war makes our population unsustainable.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They shot pictures of Bull Connor running around shouting into his megaphone like a well-seasoned war general . . . fighting an army of laughing, dancing children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The time for the war came soon enough. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lingered over her children as long as she could before a late-night return to her corner of the war machine, the numbers on her data sheets swimming before her tired eyes the next day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Black and brown people are the principal targets in this war; white people are collateral damage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne shouted back that she was not going to lower herself by playing in one of her father’s silly war games. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite considerable pressure from the Federalists in Congress and mounting war fever in the wake of the XYZ revelations, Adams held out hope for reconciliation based primarily on these reports. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His own small office was set in the back of the war room. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put my arms around him, and thought: he was in the war. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the Armenian king back to Alexandria as a prisoner of war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Last year Mrs. Peterson asked our class if we were for the war or against it, or like the evening news anchor said, “hawks” or “doves.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Behind the jetty wall, the inner harbor was crowded with war galleys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The deep-pile carpets, the expensive genuine wood desks, reminded him that garbage collecting and trash disposal had, since the war, become one of Earth’s important industries. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was tired, Jorah. I was weary of war. I wanted to rest, to laugh, to plant trees and see them grow. I am only a young girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Homeless, stateless, in yet another camp, we could have felt defeated, but Wetzlar was very different from the camps during the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She seemed more excited than I, to whom it signified only more war and killing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shipyards and ammunition plants brought to booming life by the war let him know that he was needed and even appreciated. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmers then waged war against the foxes. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A declaration of war would have been less surprising to Koch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was not the language of Sassoon but the violence of war that attracted me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I also wished to send a message to the government that while I rejected its offer because of the conditions attached to it, I nevertheless thought negotiation, not war, was the path to a solution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishtar had taught her war like other moms taught their kids cooking or soccer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Van Riper didn’t believe you could lift the fog of war. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

King was painfully aware he could—would—irrevocably destroy his partnership with the president by unequivocally speaking out against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a war going on in Afghanistan, a new color-coded threat advisory system being used in the United States, and Osama bin Laden was apparently hiding somewhere in a cave. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All this was a puzzle, but Hess had a war to take part in, and put such thoughts to the back of his mind. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a brief lull at the start of Nixon’s presidency, the war protests had been growing lately. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Eva would evade them, escape into Berlin, hide there, and miraculously survive the war. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I think it was after the war,” Grandma replies. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But their contributions to the war effort were unequal, with Russia paying the heaviest price for Hitler's aggression. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped after the words “Now that the g.d. war is over and you probably have a lot of time over there, how about sending the kids a couple of bayonets or swastikas...” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But he just might be able to win the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a strange and mysterious war zone but I supposed it was quite well run and grim compared to other wars with the Austrians. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He caught up four light shields, four pairs of spears, four helms of war high-plumed with flowing manes, and ran back, loaded down, to his father’s side. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fencing didn’t originate as a sport; it was a method of defense used by soldiers in the military and against enemies at war. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the first class Teacher Zhang had told us that in order to integrate all aspects of our study with the revolution and to prepare for war, we would learn military and political terms first. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the old King came to his throne it had been an England of armoured barons, and of famine, and of war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding babies lost during the war was a matter of foolish imagination, and she had no time for that. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero’s journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was in Nam, here and now, and here is where my war was. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get out of the country. I wouldn’t go to war. I was at the war once in Abyssinia. Nix. Why do you go?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were chinch bugs and grasshoppers, months of drought, elections, slavery, secession, talk of war—the adult world of trouble, though, was not real enough to dim the goodness of an April morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He lived in Paris after the war. He’s got all lands of fruity habits.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Not one step back: in a world at war, the fear of Stalin’s directives was a threat more terrifying than dying in battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“This is a war. You think it is some kind of fun, a war? Some kind of big joke to play on your parents?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he is hateful throughout the Iliad, poem of war though it is. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, for three hours, Aru and Mini learned war strategy from Hanuman, dancing and etiquette from Urvashi, and folklore from Boo. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those whose attitude toward the war is most nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“This is like preparing to go to war!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here they were, trying to bring back that old feeling, that feeling they belonged to America the way they felt during the war. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended up in a veterans hospital in New York City, where he had a slow, difficult recovery from severe head pain associated with his war injuries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Oppenheimer knew that it wasn’t just his reputation and career on the line at Los Alamos—it was the outcome of the biggest war in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He implied he knew about Cardan—perhaps he glimpsed us after the mock war, Cardan jerking my head by my braid. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell him, boy. Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn’t have to answer to kings and queens.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not much of a war over there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Lev, before the war, did you just study and pray all the time? I mean, what did you do?" What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to start an all-out war with the natives?” he shouts. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Throughout the war, hundreds of Soviet night bomber regiments moved to follow the front line, as it skirted swamps or rough terrain, or bulged in one direction or another when there was a local victory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Military Highway, the town’s main drag since Hampton’s days as a war boomtown, got a new name: Mercury Boulevard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Gawaine,” he asked painfully, “don’t follow me. I will accept the banishment. I will live in my Preach castles. But don’t follow me, Gawaine. Don’t keep the war forever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank had lost everything thanks to a war. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I say “too much,” grandchildren, because one of the unwritten rules of war is to expect the unexpected. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexia, on the other hand, is always involved in some “girl war.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The very facts were shrouded in uncertainty: Was it a civil war? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war would last just long enough for the Biafran army to gas the Nigerians to kingdom come. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like so many other German cities, it had been heavily bombed by Allied forces during the war. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

War makes you a man; war makes you dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what this whole war story is. A medicinal drug. Listen, did you ever hear of the ‘Roaring Twenties’?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the dumbest moves of the war, he’d failed to prepare for a Japanese naval attack. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now we will drink the other bottle and you will tell me about the war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was worth about $25,000 before the war, and the way he stood in the cabin steering toward open water you would think the whole fleet was under his command. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time he declared this new war, less than 2 percent of the American public viewed drugs as the most important issue facing the nation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Aarfy would puff reflectively on his pipe throughout the whole chaotic clash, gazing with unruffled curiosity at the war through McWatt’s window as though it were a remote disturbance that could not affect him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I know,” April said suddenly, “Marshall can be the young pharaoh, heir to the throne of Egypt. Only there’s a civil war going on, and the other side is trying to kill him.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his new, heightened feelings, he was overwhelmed by sadness at the way the others had laughed and shouted, playing at war. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the world was buried in war or the thoughts of war. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war is at an impasse, spirits are low. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She did her best to give them a little respite from the war zone: she wore her love beads, put ribbons in her hair, and dabbed perfume behind her ears every morning. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He held the scourging tail in one claw, while gripped in the other was his war standard, topped by the ferret skull with the addition of the tattered tapestry square depicting Martin the Warrior. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Our spies among your loyal subjects tell us that only very few want another war, and that word is starting to leak out that the army is on the march right toward the goblins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The Germans were, of course, broadcasting in code, so—at least in the early part of the war—the British couldn’t understand what was being said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The solstice deadline would pass and war would begin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the years since the war ended I have met former Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Ernest’s wire been dispatched than horrifying news arrived: the Athenia had been sunk by a German U-boat torpedo, in the war’s first attack on British shipping. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The whole block was guarded by Crazy Johnny, who had returned from the war shell-shocked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

China, taking advantage of the chaos, launches its full arsenal of nuclear weapons at key US targets, initiating a full-blown thermonuclear war that ultimately renders the planet a desolate wasteland incapable of supporting life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They remind me of Syria before the war, when I went to the markets with Dayah and Dapir to buy lemons, eggplant, tomatoes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The children and young people, you are the unlucky ones. This war has murdered many futures. Are your parents still alive?” he asked. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

How can they fight a war with such lousy equipment? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“All the children wear them, even now. They wore them during the war to protect themselves from bombs.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The drums of war had not yet silenced the laughter of the harvesters, but Aziz felt the first pinch of heartache when her father didn’t return on the appointed day. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

What with our nation involved in a great war and our young men leaving our sweet land of liberty, we must be vigilant on the home front. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They stayed with the Soviets until the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was also sure that a search had been started for us, not fully understanding that a war was on and that all the ships and aircraft were needed to fight the U-boats. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kill the foreign white devils!” was the 1901 Chinese war cry in the Boxer Rebellion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even during time of war, we must follow the rules of propriety and civilization.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came here for refuge, to a city untouched by the fighting, and here I turn up to drag them back into the war. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So anyway, tonight the audience was hysterical, like a war was about to break out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t give her war, did you? Not after just five weeks?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Taylor would come to power in an election in 1997, winning largely because people feared he would restart a civil war if he lost. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

"Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lawrence feared that the failure at Y-12 would destroy the army’s confidence in the entire bomb project, with billions of dollars—indeed, the entire war effort—hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Edgar Derby was writing letters home in his head, telling his wife that he was alive and well, that she shouldn’t worry, that the war was nearly over, that he would soon be home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Miss Volker had fixed my nose, but it didn’t stop me from wanting to watch war movies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely,” cried the bard, “in a flash! A Fflam never hesitates. Fortunes of war and all that. Oh, drat and blast! There goes another string. A thick one, too.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

After the war, the Capitol destroyed all the nests surrounding their city, but the ones near the districts were left untouched. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Muriel, I have commanded you to depart. Your defiance is an act of war.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This film is about the war on terror. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not so simple, young one. Many of them have died out. There were wars between many races; few survived.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He urged everyone in the Soviet Union to “defend with their lives their freedom, their honour and their country in this patriotic war against German fascism.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Our house is a war zone of fabric, props, and sequins, but the chaos of it actually gives me some quiet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Three days past, he had summoned all his captains to a war council aboard the Fury while the fleet lay anchored at the mouth of the Wendwater, in order to acquaint them with his dispositions. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She became aware, slowly, that the flying creature’s heart was beating as quickly as a tiny war drum, urgent with some kind of duty. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But right now my only job is to make sure this absurd scene doesn’t turn into some ridiculous faux girl-gang turf war, so I pull Violet away and step in front of her. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s been hard to get since the war.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since the outbreak of the war, interest in uranium has intensified in Germany,” Einstein warned. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first picture had been a war film, and all I caught was the ending where the G.I. goes back to Europe to marry the woman who saved his life. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks go by when Jutta does not allow herself to think of the war, of Frau Elena, of the awful last months in Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But none of them pulled plows or wagons, none bore riders, none except dogs pulled sleds or became war machines, and none of them have been as important for food as have big domestic mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Swart was a young man, and I explained to him that brown rice was the unrefined rice kernel, and we used to eat it during the war when white rice was unavailable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, issued an ultimatum to Hitler: If he dared to invade Poland, Britain would declare war on Nazi Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many ghosts in our house—the ghost of my brother, the ghosts of my father’s war, the ghosts of my sister’s voices. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

According to the president of the United States, there would be no war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Who knows what death camp ashes blew daily through the head of Mrs. Finestein, in those years right after the war? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Too bad for the soldier that when the war broke out, curators removed The Night Watch from Het Rijksmuseum, rolling up the canvas and trucking it to a castle in the country somewhere. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This family saga is extremely well written, but the parts dealing with war, writers and the emancipation of women aren’t very good. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“If I were a Liberal,” he said, “I’d go to war because of those ballots.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The king was asleep, exhausted by the effort of writing his memoirs about the war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t know she’d been shot trying to reenter the country a few months after the war started, desperate to get back to her family. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dropped off in an actively warring district or perhaps 13 itself. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now, under Lewis Strauss, it had become even more security-obsessed than the colonels and generals the scientists had worked with during the war, in purposeful if somewhat prickly companionability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After the war he makes two great mistakes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He likes it just as well as open war. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Friends, students, and teachers asked me why I had never told them about what I had experienced during the war. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Zlata and I seem to have a lot in common because while Zlata was living though a war in Sarajevo, I was living through a different kind of war—the L.A. riots. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Max kisses her head and says that when the war is over, he’s going to take her to a beach, where she can feel the sand and play in the wide and salty ocean. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

West of here, where the war is already, where the humans are killing each other, the land is completely ruined. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Poppy had worked there for a time until a war broke out between union miners and company “detectives.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was a new part of Ellsberg’s job—defending the war on college campuses. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

You didn't take it easy when you were in the middle of a war. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

While millions across the world struggle with illiteracy, poverty, violence and war, let us remember that we have the power, determination and creative minds to help fight and eliminate those social problems. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We felt that the country was drifting towards a civil war in which blacks and whites would fight each other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ex-Marine mailman who came home from a war and had one more son. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His apartment was filled with the stuff he’d collected during the wars of his life, and I took pictures of them with Grandpa’s camera. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He kept the minds of the barons of Castile occupied with this, so that, concentrating on that war, they did not consider rebellion. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bow and quiver slung over his shoulder were no toys—they were weapons of war. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mary could remember the days after the assassination when her parents forbade her and her seven siblings from leaving the house because just outside their windows a war was unfolding. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I would hear them talking about war that was either going on at the time or that was about to start. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It follows, not only in a trivial sense but also I believe in a very deep psychological sense, that war is murder writ large. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the army took him, and Littmus went off to war, just like that. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But High's ability to go mano a mano with blacks and Communists in the impending race war was called into question after he shattered his hand while attempting to break a piece of plywood, karate-style. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was, declared Madison, “the only obstacle to accommodation, and the real cause of war, if war takes place.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty disturbing to see war machines traverse the neighborhood you grew up in—and if that’s not troubling enough, the truck turns left, directly into the high school parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In November 1942, their required war service fulfilled, the friends returned to Munich, where they resumed their studies. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the war, the Adventures of Superman program had portrayed its hero fighting Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So now he went to his father and he said, “I know what I will do. I will be a soldier and I will go forth to wars.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The feeling roiling around in my chest reminds me of the night the major tried to kill me, his hand tight around my throat, fear and hopelessness and rage warring deep within my being. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“So what did you feel like when the war started? Did you vote for the war?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I avoided eye contact, afraid that they might see in my eyes that I had once been a soldier in the war that I was now leaving behind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“She did not wake for our war on Olympus,” Bob recalled. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But as an African American, he was not only targeted by the drug war but then denied access to housing because of his conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

"The war is lost. King Robb must be made to see that." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘But wouldn’t Lupa be busy with the war between the camps? I thought she’d be sending wolves to help your legion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It would turn into a gathering place for other Afghans who, like them, had fled the war. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It is what happens in war, too many people die,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered if she won that battle, would she lose the whole war? Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought they were leaving by choice, just going to a safer place to wait out the war. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The workers formed rapidly, smiling and sticking one another with their engines of war. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A war of national liberation or simple aggression? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To continue the war with any hope of victory, Washington would have to rely more on his spies than on his soldiers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday the war would end, but it didn’t look to be happening tomorrow. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Vietnam or Iraq—one of those TV wars. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Bree did not want to talk about the wars as often as Shasta wanted to hear about them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And they became more palatable when folded into a total debt package produced by a war for independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Merely to help with spring planting while their men are at war.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She also tried to stop us from playing war. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“All of our futures. When the war is over, there will still be money left in my orchards and my pharmacy—provided they’re not blown up.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Laundry workers existed at the bottom of the war’s great pyramid, invisible and invaluable at the same time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Gene Johnson, the Ajax of this biological war, paced back and forth across the loading dock among a pile of camouflaged military trunks—his stockpile of gear from Kitum Cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To use it in a war on the side of Lord Asriel,” Will replied. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our war in the Pacific was so different from the one fought in Europe. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tame by our standards, and as Coach said, it wasn’t likely to incite a religious war or anything since it contained a moral lesson. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The corps, led by the suave, unflappable Captain James T. Kirk, included natives of an advanced United Earth, its history of poverty and war now in the past. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heron had wanted me to carry some sort of war messages or spy reports or something, and that night as I lay in bed in the loft, I thought about it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all Leo knew, a century had passed in the real world, and the war with Gaea was over for better or worse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Almost like toys abandoned in the woods for years, recently discovered by the next generation of kids ready to play war. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Many and more would bum before this war was done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Giver was gentle with him for many days following the terrible shared memory of war. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even when talk of war with Germany began in earnest, Jack thought of himself as Polish, rather than Jewish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The war ended the Nazis’ rule, but the hollowgast emerged stronger than ever,” Miss Peregrine continued. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We have a little set in the office at the back of the house, and if I’d been really eager I could have gone in there to claim my front-row seat for the war. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But those who go with it must not count on their errand being aided by war or force. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Helmuth is about to take a bite of wedding cake when Hugo says to him, "Wait and see, my boy. The war will be over, as soon as this matter is settled with Poland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He was only in his twenties, unusual for a war leader. It’s one of the reasons Crazy Horse is considered so exceptional.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“What do you think of the war really?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

During the war, it was extremely difficult to get a telephone. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s actually about a young girl who gets shot in a war and is dying in the arms of her really hot friend, but if you smile through such a tragedy, it disarms the audience. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In some neighborhoods, the young men would’ve been safer living in war zones. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He does not have the cold approach to killing, the singleness of purpose, the brutal tenacity, that the winner of this war—if there ever is to be one—must have. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tied Pax to its trunk once when the kit hadn’t liked their war play. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Probably a person who led the chariots into battle or a person who strategized a war. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all these veiled messages flying through the air, World War I soon became the war of the code breakers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And with all these angers there was an added agony when hopes for an end to the war were crushed as the year progressed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does this unholy racket mean the arrival of the war?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We thought it would be a tragedy for the first woman ever in Congress to vote for war,” Paul said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you at war with the spiders, too?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is the third summer of the war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to have an ally in the war against Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Yet it was at that moment of maximum affluence that the Roman political order collapsed into a series of deadly civil wars. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was springtime in 1948, three years after the end of the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know without you the war could never have been won. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too young by a year. That one night was my whole war. So, yes, I’m sure.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

This was Germany’s first defeat on the ground since the outbreak of war over two years earlier. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As they talked to people, they began to understand the hardships suffered by so many during the almost six years that the war had ravaged Europe. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only how could I say that to Sahil now that my heart and my brain were warring? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mother would hear of a widow whose husband had died or been killed in the war, and couldn’t manage the farm anymore. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie, the heat, the booze, the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hers, the Latvian who had lost her life to winter and war on the side of a road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I always thought the war would come for me when it wanted me,” he said when he came to say goodbye the last day. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Don Parsons, a top-notch explosives expert, determined the cache of explosives and equipment would have caused millions of dollars of destruction to America's war industry. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

If he committed to war in Vietnam, it would drain resources from the domestic programs he dreamed of crafting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The war then passed away from me, and dreams of enlistment and escape and a clean start lost their meaning for me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep inside his brain there is a war going on—a war that he’s losing. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before this war is over, all men will have an opportunity to reveal their true selves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He admired Kennedy’s determination to end the war, and helped the candidate craft speeches in preparation for the pivotal California Democratic primary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Honor without intelligence is a disaster. Honor could lose the war.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But leaving out things like that, the war didn’t affect us much around Redding in that summer of 1775. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking Mom will realize that we’re at war and act like the United Nations as she’s done in the past, but she doesn’t. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She promises Etienne she will remember her age, not try to be everything to everyone, not fight the war by herself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The money flowed from private donors and from government grants, the latter partially the result of contributions by Berkeley chemists and engineers to the American war effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I believe that the men who endure the dangers of battle—fighting there for us tonight—are helping the entire world avoid far greater conflicts, far wider wars, far more destruction, than this one.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ishmael had somehow arrived at the war moment little boys are prone to dream about. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were formed in ranks, with Russian soldiers guarding us—Englishmen, Americans, Dutchmen, Belgians, Frenchmen, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians, thousands of us about to stop being prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The husband goes to war, and the wife has this brother that's a drunkard. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah—I had a friend in the war. He’s dead.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Markus Wolf understood that, with the Cold War quickly thawing and the spy wars coming to an end, some people might want justice. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers are doing the job of fighting the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The King said thoughtfully: “Would you mind telling me about the races, Merlyn? I suppose I ought to understand the situation, if there has to be a second war.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln will stay behind on the riverboat and tend to the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, they hoped, they’d have one more chance to see each other before he went to war. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Willie, that sounds like something out of the sixties, know what I’m sayin’? Something about declaring war on poverty and Spanish Harlem being a prisoner of war. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were thousands of hidden caves like that in and around Kweilin so secret that the people remained hidden even after the war ended. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The talk was that Lord Tywin planned to restore Harrenhal to glory, and make it his new seat once the war was done. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If everybody would not attack the war would be over,” Manera said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Huge old war maps were plastered to the ceiling. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And in the two weeks between that interview and Ellsberg’s start date at the Pentagon, violence in Vietnam pushed the country closer to open war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sentries," he asked. “Are we at war?" The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They also want to make war when it is not necessary. As long as military men control the country you are always going to have a war." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would trade Lincoln for Confederate prisoners of war, or attempt to use his captive as leverage to give the South an advantage in peace negotiations. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Papa doesn’t explain anything. He says only that Uncle was in the war with my grandfather.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The boys miss the American missionaries, who were called home when war broke out. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they killed Martin Hopps they lost the war because that made my mother mad and she took out after them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the war, he acted as one of the Union army's most senior doctors, influencing the surgical treatments of wounded soldiers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When war broke out, he was still docile and compliant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now and again he heard men say, “We will go to the wars.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“We held off the war band,” Fflewddur said, “until we were sure you were well away. Some of them should have occasion to think unkindly of us for a while to come.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Universities that had shown their value during the war, such as Berkeley, stood at the head of the line for grants for faculty research and laboratory construction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As a result, after quite a few “format wars” among the big companies, by the late 1990s the Internet computing platform became seamlessly integrated. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Holes to fly to in time of war, to store fodder in! The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“All of you can fight this war without Ares. Until I get satisfaction, no one in my cabin is lifting a finger to help. Have fun dying.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is true that we are not yet at open war with the Black Land, and there are some, close to the king’s ear, that speak craven counsels; but war is coming. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Now the girls’ game’s about half over so let’s start gettin’ dressed for war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you will see, we do not believe that artists have an obligation to strike up attitudes to the war. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union believed that Germany should pay for starting the war and for causing such horrific damage to other countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a spent force long before he was finally caught in Buenos Aires near the end of the war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Americans were fighting an air and sea war against the Japanese in the Pacific. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There are no wars over the world's meager resources; soldiers are too cold and hungry to fight. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Not much. Daddy is busy. He is worried about the war.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The scraeling war party fell upon them that night: five hundred men to thirty. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

American soldiers were dying in an undeclared war with England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the long ride passed swiftly as he filled her pretty head with tales of Winterfell and war. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Resistance killed the Emperor and the most important members of his house, Marcus stepped into his place, and now there will be no civil war, no struggle between Gens Taia and Blackcliff. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And certainly no one, no one, dared repeat in her presence the rising rumors that, after eight years of fighting, the Soviets were losing this war. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I did not want this fight but I think it was forced upon us. As the war was.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With war approaching, the entire service was being transferred to Navy control. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“There are men entrusted with winning the war who are in a much better position than we are to decide what targets have to be bombed.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

McMillan’s initial observations suggested that 94 would be exceptionally long lived, which was both a drawback and, in terms of the war effort, a virtue. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you what I was just thinking, Mama. I was just sitting here praying that we would go to war.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The driver must be a high-ranking official, for war rationing means that only important Nazis have ample access to gas and food. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my anger was being caused by the war god’s presence, but I was still itching to punch him in the nose. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"We are free men, and free men by rights sit on all war councils." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Of course! I can’t let you roll down into the middle of a war without me. I was literally born for this.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Poppy said, “She thinks your friend is—the angel—of her friend, who was killed in the ’67 war. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first development—projective geometry—was born in the turmoil of war. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Imagine being here through it all—the wars, the sickness, the earthquakes, the schools—only to come to this? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Bush had received an unequivocal endorsement of the idea that an atomic bomb could be developed in time to influence the course of a war he knew was coming. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In barely a decade, the War on Drugs went from being a political slogan to an actual war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My mom grabs my hand and squeezes it, an indication I should stop talking—but fear and anger are waging a war inside me right now, and I can’t stop myself. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She’d camouflaged her face and arms with dirt like a soldier in a war movie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She bears the loss of her son to war. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Britain’s ability to read Enigma was a vital war secret, and they had gone to great lengths to protect it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But for Elizabeth Bentley, the end of the war was the beginning of a terrifying, unknown stage in her life. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Meng tells our uncles that many Cambodians are leaving the country for Thailand in search of new life and to escape the war. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such bureaucracies were essential not only to governing large and populous domains but also to maintaining standing armies, sending out fleets of exploration, and organizing wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Saved from the ravages of war by stubbornness and ignorance and an insatiable hunger for love. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But true believers like Elizabeth held on, ready to fight for the communist cause as the war clouds gathered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only with the introduction of trucks and tanks in World War I did horses finally become supplanted as the main assault vehicle and means of fast transport in war. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost his mom in the war in Afghanistan, and he knew how empty the words I’m sorry could sound. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere on the continent, bloody wars, the threat of torture and the dampdown of liberties that accompanied the Counter-Reformation were making the choices composers made a matter of life and death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m gonna stay. For a while. Until they call me up. They put me in the reserve unit in camp. It could be months. Maybe the war will be over by then.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the longest amount of time we were away, but there was rarely a time when our lives weren’t interrupted in some way by war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This happened about three years before the war. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, rejoicing in their good fortune, believing the war ended and Athena’s favor restored to them, they went to their houses in peace as they had not for ten years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

No woman could be a war chief; no man could lead a clan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All I can hear is “violation of the Geneva Convention” and “prisoners of war.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was going to be a war on Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There aren’t very many male teachers anyway, and the few that do exist are elderly; there are no young men, because the war has eaten them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And this caused such a war in her as could scarcely be endured. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

After barely a year of marriage, the war that had brought them together was driving them apart. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Abigail described the decision to resume negotiations with France as “a master stroke of policy” because it averted a French war and removed the rationale for Hamilton’s army at one fell swoop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

King went on to promise the students the “full weight” of support of the SCLC, and exhorted them to keep on fighting until the war on segregation was won. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what he’s lost because of this war. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Within moments, Katie and Melissa burst in with fresh news from the campaign’s war room: “We won!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Every man and woman in the United States will be asked to purchase war savings stamps,” I set the paper down. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She had a sudden impulse to make a cut into the earth, just take a knife and slice open the grassy surface, echoing the violence of war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When the war broke out in Germany, the two pooled their money with some other German friends and bought a boat. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s lovely. It’s the first really good camel’s hair I’ve seen since the war. May I ask where you got it?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I think he is safe. The war has ended, and country is starting over. I think he is safe, yet we will not tell.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Everybody was out on the streets gawking at the war zone damage. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A German woman whose husband had not returned from the war lived there with her young child and her elderly mother. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And according to her dagger, that crazy teddy-bear-strangling kid, Octavian, was whipping the Romans into a war frenzy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To Virgil as to all Roman poets, war was the noblest and most glorious of human activities. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed over Anduin and came to their land; but we found a desert: it was all burned and uprooted, for war had passed over it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There might have been no war at all for an hour or so, as the men ate and joked in the mellow sunlight of the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

During World War II, Bill Harvey fought his battles on the home front, leading counterespionage campaigns against the Abwehr, spies that Hitler sent across the Atlantic to sabotage the American war effort. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The feudal idea of war for ransom had been squashed in Britain, but not abroad, and now the foreign ransom-hunters were after the newly settled King. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bears were solitary creatures for the most part, and they only came together in times of war or emergency. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“She is talked about among witches. So you have come to make war?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But the Star gave the humans unnatural power, and so the lesser creatures fled, disappearing into the deep places to wait out the war. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About that time he had begun to cultivate the black mustache with waxed tips and the somewhat stentorian voice that would characterize him in the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They got their beginning as writers by going where the action was—to war—and I could, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was little time for humor or celebration in a time of war. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a simple-minded thing for a female Earthling to do, to associate sex and glamor with war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gods arrived a few minutes later in their full war regalia, thundering into the throne room and expecting a battle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is not now the time but I will not lose these thoughts, I will keep them, shut them away until the war is ended. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tired, sleepy, and feverish; but he did not want to lie down with this war raging in him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We too knew what it felt like to live amid war. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The war was going badly, but it was bound to pick up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I kept on doing that kind of research after the war, too. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t let lassies fly fighter planes, not even broken ones, till a bit later in the war. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The war ended in November 1918, and soon after, the mine operators nixed their end of the contract, in which they had recognized the United Mine Workers Union. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you’ll probably be hearing from us soon. We may be at war with the Russians in another year or so. You fellows will certainly be needed again then.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that last summer, before the war, he got up before dawn and rode the bay mare south to the spring in the narrow canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that’s who we are, even though there’s not a war here, but it’s like a war. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Memorizing lyrics left me little time to think about what had happened in the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The committee made short work of US concerns that the bomb might come too late to affect the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This isn’t a mock war; this is the real thing. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in later times other customs prevailed; peace and justice fled before the greed for gold and the frenzy for war. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul, a pacifist who did not support the war, was cautious not to criticize pro-war suffragists or the war itself. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It also marked the start of a war between the two that became increasingly bitter, underhand, and often ridiculous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All she could talk about was how they were too young to be at war. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Instead, American troops poured across the bridge, the Remagen beachhead was quickly enlarged and held against German counterattacks—and everyone began to talk of the war ending in two months. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If they weren’t, the Democrats or the rebel southerners would take over the country, dooming it to another war. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The conflict, portrayed by both the Catholics and the Protestants as a holy war, was more an exploitation of religious fanaticism by those hungry for land and power. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barracks are gone, torn down right after the war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazi army would kill us all, gun us down and leave us for dead before the war ended. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But who can assure us that this war, which has caused nothing but pain and sorrow, will then be over? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Frank had come back from the war with a very stiff leg and a great dislike of crowds and loud noises, and had been working for the Riddles ever since. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The all-day parade, titled Hitler Unlooses War, was a demonstration of America's military and industrial power, aiming to stamp out any doubt about America's ability to crush Hitler and win the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Being a Navajo and keeping to our Navajo Way helped me survive not just the war, but all those times of quiet and anxious waiting that were not yet peace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The group that runs war games for the U.S. military is called the Joint Forces Command, or, as it is better known, JFCOM. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He's a gentleman, and he fought a war with the Germans, and it's his instinct to offer generosity and friendship to a defeated foe. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

All was silent, save for the rumour of war in the City down below, and they heard the water dripping sadly from the dead branches into the dark pool. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

While I was working there, two American wars raged on. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“The war started when my teacher dropped the chalk,” he said out of nowhere. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opens her purse and unwraps the partially crushed wooden house and says in her best French, “My brother had this. I believe he found it here. During the war.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wanted the war to be over so I could ask her out. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln had ordered work on building the Capitol dome to continue during the war as a sign that the Union would go on. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew only that they were Dinka and that they were trying to stay away from the war. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the war began, British scientists recruited him to help with a secret war-related project—the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scream ran on, shattering the air, overpowering the other sounds of war, until it faded in death. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They started the war in our Aztlan, a land that belongs to us by nature, and by nature we will bury them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was no South Korean version of the “9/11” effect that propelled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“We have mobilized a million men. Quick victory is ours if the war comes...” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a plumed war helm under his arm. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Under my father’s pillow is the .45 automatic he brought back from the war. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The war over, a fake prosperity was still around. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a second the idea glittered before Sefia like one of her Visions: the Five Islands working together in concert, all the warring kingdoms united, their turbulent histories smoothed over in a single decisive victory. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For a while, the “war” was all we talked about. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In some places where they waged war on Indigenous peoples, they destroyed magnificent statuary and artworks just to take the gold and silver the artisans used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about the fact that we had run so far away from the war, only to be caught back in it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The two countries struggled for supremacy using political maneuvering, stockpiling weapons, and fighting “proxy” wars in other, smaller countries where they didn’t directly engage each other. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their sabotage work could decide the outcome of the war. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He was a war veteran with a missing arm, and this fascinated a certain type of woman in her early twenties who fancied herself mature beyond her years and was serious about herself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even putting aside such concerns, though, recent research indicates that the basic assumptions upon which drug war defenses typically rest are simply wrong. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Regiments are costly articles everywhere,” he explained to his secretary of war, “and more so in this country than any other under the sun.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In one combination or another, these three superstates are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And before I knew it, I was saying my conclusion, and Danny had begun his argument on why women could not make important decisions about war or about the prices of oil and gas. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A German attack on Poland, they warned, would mean war with Britain and France. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We fattened him up after the last war so he could come back now and starve us during this one." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

American physicists emerged from the war torn between two contradictory sensations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Later that day, garbed and gloved once more, Connington made an inspection of the castle and sent word to Homeless Harry Strickland and his captains to join him for a war council. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

No one can keep out of the conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the Allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The commission’s most important bequest from the Pentagon’s nuclear energy apparatus was the Manhattan District’s network of atomic labs, which Groves had kept intact after the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She missed dinners in the mess hall, with wind spirits whisking platters through the air and legionnaires joking about the war games. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That night Miss Love declared war on the family, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The theme is not developed but simply grows in volume like Ravel’s Bolero; it is succeeded by a slow melodic passage that suggests a chant for the war's dead. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So long as any part of the supply dump still stands we don’t worry, we desire nothing better than to stay here till the end of the war. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bits of old speeches floating about, as well as recited lessons, gunshots from old wars, babies’ cries, auto horns, waterfalls, electric fans, galloping horses, and a great deal of everything else. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alone, yes, but top-notch and indestructible—like the City in 1926 when all the wars are over and there will never be another one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would anyone like to argue that this is of use to us in winning the war?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

All through the war, the Harlem racial picture never was too bright. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is war, this is what it looks like, this is the price of the Iron Throne. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I liked the boy, and from what I’d heard of early nineteenth-century medicine, they were going to pour some whiskey down him and play tug of war with his leg. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He said every kind of bad word imaginable about officers, gentlemen, the war, the British, and the Congress, and he cursed himself for leaving his wife and farm in Maryland. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This place was hit by Russian artillery when the war started,” he says, “but they’re as good as new now. Many of the Polish police live here.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I was somewhat younger, working on my famous Dresden book, I asked an old war buddy named Bernard V. O’Hare if I could come to see him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Neither did I. She can wake us up to ask for some money, but she can’t wake us up to tell us she’s going in a war zone.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He had said, "Do you want to call off the war?" and she had said, "Sure, let's call off the war." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

What if I get sent to places with wars and bombs? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She likes you, boy, and if you can’t tell that, you aren’t going to be able to tell a rifle from a cap gun in this war. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pray every night for an end to this war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After the war, Robert E. Lee applied for a pardon for his acts against the United States. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Young, yes, and politically naive, but even so the American war in Vietnam seemed to me wrong. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper—these could easily evaporate after the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had been wounded four times—and patched up, and sent back to war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it was the feathers in Georgie’s hair,” Lissa said, “and the war paint. He jumped out of the bushes screaming and yelling. I guess he was trying to frighten us.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But did that mean the humans had won the war? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Go back to America with your prize, the Athena Parthenos. Your comrades back home, Greek and Roman, are on the brink of war. Leave now, and you might save many lives.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As if a hostage crisis and an Iranian revolution weren't complicated enough, by 1980 the country also found itself at war with Iraq. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But this wild land was important in the war. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Many European leaders worried that Hitler was preparing Germany’s young people for war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew anything about huge and general war. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After the war, Serber had become a valued member of the Berkeley faculty, recruited by Lawrence to succeed Oppie as its chief theoretical physicist. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As he turned around, he was greeted by the guests’ emasculated version of an Apache war cry. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange, Le Duc Tho agreed to a cease-fire and the return of American prisoners of war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.—Apparently endlessly cyclic. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, with a war- whoop—deplorable and ungentlemanly tactics—be fell on the insurgent camp with the blood pounding in the veins of his neck, and Excalibur dancing in his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see him so much, Shad. Pa had said that maybe after the war was over I could go to Washington, maybe I could shake his hand.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say that there were people in the year 1905 who hated war and got together with some scientists in secret and built a rocket and came out here to Mars ” “No, no, Hinkston.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then gravely he said, “Don’t ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every single day during those five war years he would write several pages of comment and observation about the events of the time. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was a guerrilla war, and the usual rules didn’t apply. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered how such calm could belong to a world at war. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He also sent me $30.00 a month while in Korea war while he was there from beginning until the end and was dischard in Seattle, Wash. Honorable as far as I know. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This war only gonna last about three more days. We got us a body count of four hundred and thirty-three Congs in the last fight.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell the about the war,” I said to change the subject “I told all I know at dinner.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Numbers alone do not win a war. You have not seen them. Half of them are dead on their feet.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was obviously their first camp—hard to believe after so much war. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z