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• "The Good War"

  An Oral History of World War Two

  Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008

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  “The Good War” is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian. From a pipe fitter’s apprentice at Pearl Harbor to a crew member of the flight that dropped the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The British Are Coming

  the War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

  Atkinson, Rick,

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  Rick Atkinson tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, the ragtag…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horse Soldiers

  the Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan

  Stanton, Doug,

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  Horse Soldiers is the dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who secretly entered Afghanistan following 9/11 and rode to war on horses against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy army across the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Talker

  [the First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII]

  Nez, Chester, 1921-2014,

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  Discrimination didn't stop Chester from answering the call to defend his country after Pearl Harbor, for the Navajo have always been warriors, and his upbringing on a New Mexico reservation gave him the strength--both physical and mental--to excel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Call Me a Hero

  a Legendary American Dive-bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway

  Kleiss, N. Jack, 1916-2016

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  Hailed as "the single most effective pilot at Midway", Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of Midway, including two aircraft carriers, helping turn the tide of the Second World War. This is his extraordinary memoir.

• Love My Rifle More Than You

  Young and Female in the U.S. Army

  Williams, Kayla

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  With a passion that makes her memoir nearly impossible to put down Williams shares the powerful gamut of her experiences in Iraq, from caring for a wounded civilian to aiming a rifle at a child. Angry at the bureaucracy and the conflicting messages…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rifle

  Combat Stories From America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through An M1 Garand

  Biggio, Andrew,

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  For two years, Biggio traveled across the country to interview America’s last-living WWII veterans. Each time he put the M1 Garand Rifle in their hands, their eyes lit up with memories triggered by holding the weapon that had been with them every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Valleys of Death

  a Memoir of the Korean War

  Richardson, Bill (William J.)

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  From the devastating counterattack at Unsan to the thirty-four months he spent in captivity-a period of years in which giving up surely meant dying-Col. Bill Richardson's instinct for leadership and stubborn will to survive saw him through one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Called Us "lucky"

  the Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

  Gallego, Ruben, 1979-

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  From Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego, a "powerful" and "searing" memoir of his journey from childhood poverty to Harvard to the Marine Corps, where served in the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War

• A Rumor of War

  Caputo, Philip

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  In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. A Rumor of War is more than one soldier's story. Upon its publication in 1977, it shattered America's indifference to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Helmet for My Pillow

  From Parris Island to the Pacific : a Young Marine's Stirring Account of Combat in World War II

  Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001,

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  From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Coldest Winter

  America and the Korean War

  Halberstam, David

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  At the heart of the book are the individual stories of the soldiers on the front lines who were left to deal with the consequences of the dangerous misjudgments and competing agendas of powerful men. We meet them, follow them, and see some of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Fierce People

  the Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South

  Crawford, Alan Pell,

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  Weaving throughout the stories of the men and women on both sides of the conflict--African Americans and whites, militiamen and irregulars, patriots and Tories, the French, the British, and the Hessians--Crawford reveals the misperceptions and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Band of Brothers

  E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

  Ambrose, Stephen E.,

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  Stephen E. Ambrose's classic New York Times bestseller and inspiration for the acclaimed HBO series about Easy Company, the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers at the frontlines of the war's most critical moments. …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Soldiers

  the Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

  Sides, Hampton

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  On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three…Read moreRead more of this annotation