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Books like The General

24 titles for readers of The General by C. S. Forester, selected for shared themes: World War I, War & Military, Wars & Conflicts, and Military.

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Top related books to The General

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T. E. Lawrence

Themes: World War I • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

Flight to Arras

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Military

War Is Over

David Almond

Themes: World War I • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

Big BUF Tales of the B-52 Bombers, The SAC Pilots Who Flew Them & the Wives They Left Behind in the Era of the Vietnam War

Charles W. Holmes

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Military

Over the Top

Arthur Guy Empey

Themes: World War I • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

Sniper Jackson A First Novel

Frederick Sleath

Themes: World War I • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

Sagittarius Rising

Cecil Lewis

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

Fighting Men

Jim Morris

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Military

Moments of Reprieve

Primo Levi

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#10

War Story

Jim Morris

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#11

Undertones of War

Edmund Blunden

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#12

Dear Captain, Et Al The Agonies and the Ecstasies of War and Memory : a Memoir from World War II

Allan Wilford Howerton

Themes: War & Military • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#13

When I Come Home Again

Caroline Scott

Themes: World War I • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

#14

Soldiers Unknown

Chag Lowry

Themes: World War I • War & Military • Wars & Conflicts

#15

Botha, Smuts and the Great War

Antonio Garcia

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#16

A Question of Loyalty Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation

Douglas C. Waller

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#17

A Muddy Trench A Sniper’s Bullet

Jacquie Buttriss

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#18

My Reminiscences of East Africa The German East Africa Campaign in World War One – a General’s Memoir

General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#19

Amateur Gunners The Great War Adventures, Letters and Observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn

Alexander Douglas Thorburn

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#20

Muddling Through The Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War One

Peter Howson

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#21

The Writers’ War World War I in the Words of Great Writers Who Experienced It

Felicity Trotman

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#22

Behind the Lawrence Legend The Forgotten Few who Shaped the Arab Revolt

Philip Walker

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#23

Flying For France With the American Escadrille at Verdun

James R. McConnell

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

#24

Who Killed Kitchener? The Life and Death of Britain’s Most Famous War Minister

David Laws

Themes: World War I • Wars & Conflicts • Military

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The General by C. S. Forester. Connected by World War I, War & Military, Wars & Conflicts. Authors featured include T. E. Lawrence, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, David Almond, Charles W. Holmes, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.