| Adult |
Title |
Book Location(s) |
| Brokaw, Tom |
The Greatest
Generation
One of NBC's most famous anchormen Tom Brokaw tells the
stories of what he call the greatest generation in history-Americans
born in the 1920s who came of age during the Great Depression,
fought in World War II, and went on to build America.
|
940.548173
B787g |
| Chambers, Aidan |
Postcards
From No Man's Land
Visiting his grandfather's grave during the annual commemoration
of the Battle of Arnhem, Jacob Todd finds his view of
himself, his country and his place in the world are overturned
when he starts chatting to a very special elderly Dutch
woman. |
Teen
Chambers |
| Crane, Stephen |
The Red
Badge of Courage
Henry Fleming, a young Union soldier, struggles with his
conflicting emotions about violence, death, and the nature
of bravery. |
Teen
Crane |
| De Bernières,
Louis |
Corelli's
Mandolin
Corelli, an Italian army captain, falls in love with Pelagia
Iannis on the island of Cephalonia after the Axis forces
occupy the island in World War II. |
Fiction
De Bernières |
| Heller, Joseph |
Catch-22
Captain Yossarian and other pilots on a small Mediterranean
island in World War II face inconsistencies in military
rules. |
Fiction
Heller
Teen Heller |
| Hemingway, Ernest |
Farewell
to Arms
Story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front
during World War I and his love for an English nurse.
|
Fiction
Hemingway |
| Hersey, John |
Bell
for Adano
An American major attempts to rebuild a ravaged Italian
town during the World War II occupation. |
Fiction
Hersey |
| Irwin, John P. |
Another
River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age
in Combat-1945
This spare, honest memoir of an 18-year-old GI tank
gunner on the German front in 1945 conveys the romance
of combat as well as the fear and slaughter with a wry
honesty. |
Teen
940.548 Ir9a |
| Kerr, M. E. |
Slap
Your Sides
Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal
Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses
to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector
during World War II. |
Teen
Kerr |
| Mason, Bobbie Ann |
In Country
Sam resents the effects of the Vietnam War, especially
the death of her father and her uncle's suffering from
Agent Orange poisoning. |
Fiction
Mason |
| O'Brien, Tim |
Going
After Cacciato
Cacciato leaves his unit in Vietnam, announcing that he
is going to Paris, but the men chasing him see India and
Iran as well. |
Fiction
O'Brien
Teen O'Brien |
| O'Brien, Tim |
Things
They Carried
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their
lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern
journey into the heart of darkness. |
Fiction O'Brien
Teen O'Brien |
| Remarque, Erich Maria |
All Quiet
On the Western Front
Five German students are drafted into World War I. |
Fiction
Remarque
Teem Remarque |
| Stanton, Doug |
In Harm's
Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary
Story of Its Survivors
How could a WWII battleship carrying over 1,000 men be
torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and sink, leaving the
survivors to bob in the Pacific Ocean at the mercy of
elements and predators, without anyone realizing the loss
for more than four days? . |
940.545973
St26i
Teen 940.545973 St26i |
| Swofford, Anthony |
Jarhead:
A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles.
A witty, profane, down-in-the-sand account of the war
many only know from CNN, this former sniper's debut is
a worthy addition to the battlefield memoir genre. |
956.704421
Sw72j |
| Turnipseed, Joel |
Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir
"An edgy, street-talking trip into the often inane
realities of 'high-tech' contemporary warfare."
|
956.7044
T86b |
| Van Devanter Lynda |
Home Before
Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
This is the way it was, as seen through the eyes of
an army second lieutenant when she was twenty-two. |
959.70437
V286h |
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
Slaughterhouse-five
Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans,
witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden.
|
Fiction
Vonnegut
Teen Vonnegut |
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