Johnny Got His Gun," by Dalton Trumbo. Like Robert Altman's movie "Streamers," some of the most powerful anti-war statements can be made away from the battlefield. Trumbo makes his from inside the head of a wounded soldier in a hospital.

"Homage To Catalona," by George Orwell. Orwell's accounting of his participation in the Spanish Civil War gives insight into the makings of his most famous novel.