Start with high-confidence war & military books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Tree Girl
Ben Mikaelsen
Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith
Among the Red Stars
Gwen C. Katz
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, Viviana Mazza
The Blood Years
Elana K. Arnold
Troy
Adèle Geras
The War Outside
Monica Hesse
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh
Daughter of Xanadu
Dori Jones Yang
Enemy Among Them, an
Deborah H. Deford
The Slopes of War
Norah Perez, N.A. Perez
Kipling's Choice
Geert Spillebeen
My Vicksburg
Ann Rinaldi
Anna and the Swallow Man
Allan Corduner, Gavriel Savit
Moonstorm
Yoon Ha Lee
Starstrike
Yoon Ha Lee, Reese Grey
Victories Greater Than Death
Charlie Jane Anders
AK
Peter Dickinson
What the Night Sings
Vesper Stamper
The Dressmaker's Daughter
Linda Boroff
Escape '56
Richard Panchyk
Uncertain Soldier
Karen Bass
Who Owns the Clouds?
Mario Brassard
