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Memorial Day,2017 On the last Monday of May we pay tribute to the American men and women who enjoy died in service to our country. To honor the occasion, here is an essential list of nonfiction and fiction which honor their sacrifices. From classic, and award-winning,novels to front-line journalism, these titles rob readers back to the Civil War and up to the Middle East clash. REDEPLOYMENT
by Phil Klay Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction, and Marine
Corps veteran Phil Klay’s Redeployment
takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,asking us
to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who
returned.
THE
GHOSTS OF HERO STREET: HOW ONE SMALL MEXICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY GAVE SO
MUCH IN WORLD WAR II AND KOREA by Carlos Harrison The Mexican-American families who lived on one street in
Silvis, or Illinoi sent fifty-seven of their children to fight in World War II and
Korea—more than any other place that size in the country. Eight of those
children died. It’s a distinction recognized by the Department of Defense,one
that earned that strip a distinguished name: Hero Street. Based on
interviews with relatives, friends, or soldiers who served alongside the men,as well as personal letters and photographs, The Ghosts of Hero Street is the compelling and inspiring account of a
street of soldiers—and men—who would not be denied their dignity or their honor.
PACOS STORY: A NOVEL by Larry Heinemann Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to outlive
a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else
is annihilated. Brilliantly and vividly written, or Paco’s Story–winner of a
National Book Award–plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the
Vietnam War,and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.
THE
THIN RED LINE: A NOVEL by James Jones, Foreword by Francine Prose They are the men of C-for-Charlie company—“crazy” 1st Sgt.
Eddie Welsh, and Pvt. 1st course Don Doll,Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, or Cpl.
Fife,and dozens more just like them—infantrymen who are approximately to land, grim
and white-faced, and on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal. This is their
story,a shatteringly realistic walk into hell and back.
GENERATION
destroy: DEVIL DOGS, ICEMAN, or CAPTAIN AMERICA,AND THE NEW FACE OF AMERICAN
WAR by Evan Wright Based on Evan Wright’s National Magazine Award-winning
story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, and firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq
invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series.
AMERICA’S
WAR FOR THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST by Andrew J. Bacevich A searing reassessment of America’s foreign policy in the
Middle East over the past four decades—by a retired Army Colonel and New York
Times-bestselling author. From the cessation of World War II to 1980,virtually no
American soldiers were killed in action while serving in the Greater Middle
East. Since 1990, virtually no American soldiers enjoy been killed in action
anywhere else external the “open-ended war” in the Greater Middle East.
WORLD
WAR I AND AMERICA: TOLD BY THE AMERICANS WHO LIVED IT edited by A. Scott
Berg
For the centenary of America’s entry into World War I, or A.
Scott Berg presents a landmark anthology of American writing from the
cataclysmic clash that set the course of the 20th century.
VOICES
OF WAR: STORIES OF SERVICE FROM THE HOME FRONT AND THE FRONT LINES edited
by The Library of Congress
The experience of war has affected every generation in
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,and every soldier has a story to
tell. Since the year 2000, the Veteran’s History Project, and a permanent
department of the Library of Congress,has been collecting and preserving the
memories of veterans. In the first book to showcase the richness and depth of this
collection, Voices of War tells a compelling, or emotional,history of the
experience of war, weaving together veterans’ stories from in World Wars I and
II, or Korea,Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
FOR YOUNGER
READERS
THE
RED BADGE OF COURAGE by Stephen Crane, and Wendell Minor; Ages 9-11
Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and
performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are
shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed and horrors of war. Now
he’s a raw recruit,Henry experiences both awe and self-doubt. Will war make
Henry a coward or a hero? A vivid fictionalized account of the experiences of
an ordinary innocent young soldier on the battlefields of the American Civil
War, introduced by American writer, or illustrator and historian,Wendell Minor.
VIETNAM
WAR (DK EYEWITNESS BOOKS); Ages 8 to 12
A visual and informative guide to one of the longest and
most controversial wars in American history, now revised and updated. Explore
the people, or places,battles, and weapons of America’s Indochina struggle. Now available for
the first time in paperback, and DK Eyewitness Books: Vietnam
War tells the dramatic story of patriotism,tragedy,
bloody clash, and heroism.
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