Veterans Day 2017

November 11, 2017 | melissa c

Today we recognize our fellow citizens, current and past members of the military, for their service to the country.  In this book list you'll find a variety of non-fiction texts including books on WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These books detail the experiences of soldiers across generations and wars, many using our servicemen's and servicewomen's own words, including their experiences upon returning home. Click the blog title and scroll down to view all materials. 

 

If you’d like to learn more about the benefits and services available to veterans, including where to donate funds or volunteer to assist veterans, check out the links below.

Department of Veterans Affairs – Detroit regional benefit office

Veteran Support Center – Michigan chapter

Vietnam Veterans of America – Plymouth-Canton chapter

Department of Veterans Affairs - Volunteer at the VA

Charity Navigator – highly-rated charities dedicated to helping veterans

 

Those who have borne the battle [electronic resource] : a history of America's wars and those who fought them by James Edward Wright
The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
The beauty and the sorrow : an intimate history of the First World War by Peter Englund
American women in World War I : they also served by Lettie Gavin
World War I : a visual encyclopedia
Into the breach : American women overseas in World War I by Dorothy Schneider
Daily life during World War I by Neil M Heyman
The greatest generation by Tom Brokaw
On silver wings : the women airforce service pilots of World War II, 1942-1944 by Marianne Verges
Blind man's bluff : the untold story of American submarine espionage by Sherry Sontag
Band of brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne : from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest by Stephen E Ambrose
Yankee doodle gals : women pilots of World War II by Amy Nathan
Ghost soldiers : the epic account of World War II's greatest rescue mission by Hampton Sides
In harm's way : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors by Doug Stanton
Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War by William Raymond Manchester
Citizen soldiers : the U.S. Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E Ambrose
Top secret Rosies [videodisc] : the female computers of World War II
Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Operatives, spies, and saboteurs : the unknown story of the men and women of World War II's OSS by Patrick K. O'Donnell
Women heroes of World War II : 26 stories of espionage, sabotage, resistance, and rescue by Kathryn J Atwood
The longest winter : the Battle of the Bulge and the epic story of WWII's most decorated platoon by Alex Kershaw
Soldier from the war returning : the greatest generation's troubled homecoming from World War II by Thomas Childers
An army at dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
The legacy : Honor Flight Michigan by Tim Downey
The wild blue : the men and boys who flew the B-24s over Germany by Stephen E Ambrose
We're in this war too : World War II letters from American women in uniform
The coldest winter : America and the Korean War by David Halberstam
The best and the brightest by David Halberstam
The Vietnam War : an intimate history by Geoffrey C Ward
Defiant : the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and the one who never returned by Alvin Townley
Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr by Lewis B Puller
Hurricane street by Ron Kovic
Home to war : a history of the Vietnam veterans' movement by Gerald Nicosia
A bright shining lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
If i die in a combat zone [electronic resource] : box me up and ship me home by Tim O'Brien
The cat from Hué : a Vietnam war story by John Laurence
Enduring Vietnam : an American generation and its war by James Edward Wright
Home from the war : learning from Vietnam veterans : with a new preface by the author on the War in Iraq by Robert Jay Lifton
Lioness [videodisc]
What was asked of us : an oral history of the Iraq War by the soldiers who fought it by Trish Wood
Love my rifle more than you : young and female in the U.S. Army by Kayla Williams
Jarhead : a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles by Anthony Swofford
Band of sisters : American women at war in Iraq by Kirsten A Holmstedt
Shoot like a girl : one woman's dramatic fight in Afghanistan and on the home front by Mary Jennings Hegar
Black Hawk down : a story of modern war by Mark Bowden
Soldier girls : the battles of three women at home and at war by Helen Thorpe
The evil hours : a biography of post-traumatic stress disorder by David J. Morris
Without a country : the untold story of America's deported veterans by J. Malcolm Garcia
Homefront 911 : how families of veterans are wounded by our wars by Stacy Bannerman
Paying with their bodies : American war and the problem of the disabled veteran by John M. Kinder
The long road home : a story of war and family by Martha Raddatz
Until Tuesday : a wounded warrior and the golden retriever who saved him by Luis Carlos Montalván
Tuesday's promise : one veteran, one dog, and their bold quest to change lives by Luis Carlos Montalván
Waking up from war : a better way home for veterans and nations by Joseph Bobrow
Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors by George W. Bush
The unforgiving minute : a soldier's education by Craig M. Mullaney
Veterans voices : remarkable stories of heroism, sacrifice, and honor by Robert H. Miller