The phrase "a tale of war" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a story or narrative that revolves around the theme of war, whether in literature, film, or historical accounts.
Example: "The novel is a gripping tale of war, exploring the lives of soldiers and their families during the conflict."
Alternatives: "a story of battle" or "a narrative of conflict".
White Silk Road (2012) A tale of war, peace and snowboarding, this is the story of three young Australian who decided to go snowboarding in Afghanistan.
It seems perfectly normal, coming to practise their beat-boxing rap here, but behind their presence lies a tale of war and peace.
Rolf de Heer's Ten Canoes is a richly layered folk-myth drama set among Australian Aborigine tribes in the Northern Territory: a tale of war and love and death among unclothed hunter-gatherers.
Speeches In a tale of war and royalty, you should really expect some rhetorical doozies and these the scriptwriters have duly provided - our favourite, so far, being Tyrion's anti-Churchillian turn at Season 2's climactic Battle of Blackwater Bay, where, true to character, he told his troops to forget all the patriotic "for king and kingdom" stuff and fight only for themselves.
To the delight of the audience, he is bellowing at the top of his lungs as he recounts a tale of war and love from One Thousand and One Nights.
His response was to write one that was almost absurdly American – a tale of warring gangsters and the battle for Fat Sam's speakeasy.
Sol Yurick, a writer whose best-known work, the 1965 novel "The Warriors," recast an ancient Greek battle as a tale of warring New York street gangs and earned a cult following in print, on film and eventually in a video game, died on Saturday in Manhattan.
Drawing ironically upon accounts by Livy and Plutarch of a speech by the Roman senator Menenius Agrippa to a revolutionary mob (which Shakespeare, a little later, and without the irony, cribbed for a scene in Act I of "Coriolanus"), he dramatizes the internecine struggles that were wasting his city as a tale of warring body parts, though not the head, belly, and limbs of the classical version.
Lying at the end of the King's Highway, these magnificent monuments are only part of a much larger story of one path's might; a tale of wars won and lost, and civilisations that rose to glory and then were vanquished over whom held sway over a road.
"Game of Thrones" -- which, like "Outlander," is partly a tale of warring clans full of bearded guys -- often unleashes unforgettable visuals and has a terrific cast, but let's not kid ourselves, the HBO show's sprawl factor increases every season.
