It took him seven years to create his own kind of war novel.
The war novel came of age during the nineteenth century.
He had written about twenty war novels, the latest of which was published in 2004.
Catch-22, however, had important links with some other widely read war novels.
Every war novel must at some point confront a central contradiction.
Not all the war novels have Japan behaving so well.
His book is a Civil War novel with a difference.
Other war novels take place on the home front.
It is an economic development, romance and (initially) a war novel.
There have been war novels and other stories about war for many thousands of years.