Fahrenheit 451

The idea of the book is very simple yet brilliant. Dumb people feel inferior to smart people, therefore, intelligence leads to unhappiness. Books make people smart. So, lets burn all the books and everyone will be content. Except that although the minority, there still are some people that just cannot be happy with an empty life, of superficial dialogs and hollow TV Shows. But eventually these anomalies will die down.

The war aspect wasn't much explorated though.