War Lit

War Literature:

Final War of Roman Republic (32BC-30BC):

·        Battle of Actium – Califf, David (937 CAL)

3^rd Crusades (1189-1192):

·        Blood Red Horse – Grant, K.M.

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)

·        Timeline – Crichton, Michael

Jacobite Rising (1745-1746)

·        Prince Across the Water – Yolen, Jane

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

·        The Last of the Mohicans – Cooper, James Fenimore

Revolutionary War (1777-1783)

·        Chains – Anderson, Laurie Halse

·        The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing – Anderson, M.T.

·        Molly Pitcher: heroine  - Bertanzetti, Eileen Dunn (973.3 BER)

·        George Rogers Clark: American general – Burgan, Michael (973.3 BUR)

·        Five 4ths of July – Hughes, Pat

·        Samuel Adams: patriot – Jones, Veda (977.3 JON)

·        John Paul Jones: father of the U.S. Navy – Lutz, Norma Jean (973.3 LUT)

Napoleonic War (1803-1815)

·        Victory – Cooper, Susan

·        An Innocent Soldier – Holub, Josef

·        War and Peace – Tolstoy, Leo

Spanish Civil War (1836-1839)

·        For Whom the Bell Tolls – Hemingway, Ernest

·        Lost Cause – Wilson, John

Crimean War (1853-1856)

·        In the Shadow of the Lamp – Dunlap, Suzanne

American Civil War (1861-1865)

·        Arms and Equipment of the Union (973.741 ARM)

·        The Battle of Gettysburg (973.7 BAT)

·        The Monitor and the Merrimak – Brager, Bruce (973.7 BRA)

·        March Toward the Thunder – Bruchac, Joseph

·        The American heritage new history of the Civil War – Catton, Bruce (973.7 CAT)

·        The Battle of Gettysburg – Coffey, Vincent (973.7 COF)

·        The Era of the Civil War – Cole, Arthur (977.3 COL)

·        The Red Badge of Courage – Crane, Stephen

·        My Last Skirt: the story of Jeannie Hodgers, Union Soldier – Durrant, Lynda

·        Jefferson Davis – Eaton, Clement (973.7 DAV)

·        Cold Mountain – Frazier, Charles

·        Thunder at Gettysburg – Gauch, Patricia Lee

·        Robert E. Lee: Confederate General – Grabowski, Patricia (973.7 GRA)

·        Civil War Generals – Harmon, Daniel (973.7 HAR)

·        Gabriel’s Horses – Hart, Alison

·        Gabriel’s Triumph – Hart, Alison

·        Gabriel’s Journey – Hart, Alison

·        All Other Nights – Horn, Dara

·        Across Five Aprils – Hunt, Irene

·        Illustrated Atlas of the Civil War (973.7 ILL)

·        Two Girls of Gettysburg – Klein, Lisa

·        Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War – Marrin, Albert (973.7 MAR)

·        The Civil War: a concise history – Masur, Louis (973.7 MAS)

·        Gone with the Wind – Mitchell, Margaret

·        Riot – Myers, Walter Dean

·        My Name is Mary Sutter – Oliveira, Robin

·        Soldier’s Heart – Paulsen, Gary

·        William Sherman: Union General – Remstein, Henna (355 REM)

·        Robert E. Lee: Virginian Soldier, American Citizen – Robertson, James (973.7 LEE)

·        The Killer Angels – Shaara, Michael

·        Sisters of the Confederacy – Snelling, Lauraine

·        Soldier Life (973.7 SOL)

·        Frank Thompson: her Civil War story – Stevens, Bryna (973.7 STE)

·        The Disagreement – Taylor, Nick

·        Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: solving the mysteries of the H.L. Hunley – Walker, Sally (973.7 WAL)

·        The Civil War: an illustrated history – Ward, Geoffrey (973.7 WAR)

·        Death on the River – Wilson, John

Spanish-American War (1898):

·        Uncle Sam’s little wars: the Spanish-American War, Phillippine insurrection and Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1902 – Langellier, John P. (973.8 LAN)

·        The Spanish-American War – Wukovits, John (973.8 WUK)

Boer War (1899-1902):

·        The Boer War – Slavicek, Louise (968.048 SLA)

World War I (1914-1918)

·        The FitzOsbornes at War – Cooper, Michelle

·        Critical Perspectives on World War I (940.3 CRI)

·        General George Patton: Old Blood and Guts – Hatch, Aiden (355.0092 HAT)

·        A Farewell to Arms – Hemingway, Ernest

·        The Sun Also Rises – Hemingway, Ernest

·        Hattie Big Sky – Larson, Kirby

·        Lawrence of Arabis – MacLean, Alistair (940.4 MAC)

·        The Lost Crown – Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

·        Private Peaceful – Morpurgo, Michael

·        Truce: the day the soldiers stopped fighting – Murphy, Jim (940.4 MUR)

·        The First Battle of the Marne – Rice, Earle (940.4 RIC)

·        The Foreshadowing – Sedgewick, Marcus

·        Daughter of War – Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

·        The Jewel and the Key – Spiegler, Louise

·        Kipling’s Choice – Spillebeen, Geert

·        Flying Aces – Wukovits, John (940.4 WUK)

World War II (1939-1945):

·        Navajo Code Talkers – Aaseng, Nathan (940.54 AAS)

·        We Remember the Holocaust – Adler, David (940.53 ADL)

·        Pearl Harbor: opposing viewpoints – Bachrach, Deborah (940.54 BAC)

·        The Boy Who Dared – Bartoletti, Susan Campbell

·        Battling in the Pacific: soldiering in World War II – Beller, Susan (940.54 BEL)

·        Draw the Dark – Bick, Ilsa

·        London Calling – Bloor, Edward

·        What I Saw and How I Lied – Blundell, Judy

·        The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – Boyne, John

·        Code Talker – Bruchac, Joseph

·        Postcards from No Man’s Land – Chambers, Aidan

·        Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs trapped by the Nazis’ final gamble – Cohen, Roger (940.54 COH)

·        Critical Perspectives on World War II (940.53 CRI)

·        D-Day – Dank, Milton (940.542 DAN)

·        A Child’s War: World War II through the eyes of children – David, Kati (940.53 DAV)

·        Mare’s War – Davis, Tanita

·        The Madonnas of Leningrad – Dean, Debra

·        The Survivor: an anatomy of life in the death camps – De Pres, Terrence (940.5472 DES)

·        World War II – Dick, Ron (629.13 DIC)

·        Annexed – Dogar, Sharon

·        The Winter War – Durbin, William

·        A Soldier’s Sketchbook: from the front lines of World War II – Farris, Joseph (940.54 FAR)

·        Escaping into the Night – Friedman, D. Dina

·        George S. Patton: World War II general & military innovator – Gitlin, Marty (355.0092 PAT)

·        Emil and Karl – Glatstein, Jacob

·        Summer of My German Soldier – Greene, Bette

·        Color of the Sea – Hamamura, John

·        General George Patton: Old Blood and Guts – Hatch, Aiden (355.0092 HAT)

·        Catch-22 – Heller, Joseph

·        A Bell for Adano – Hersey, John

·        Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption – Hillenbrand, Laura (940.54 HIL)

·        Death and Love in the Holocaust: the story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt – Hochstadt, Steve (940.531 HOC)

·        The D-Day Experience: from the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris – Holmes, Richard (940.54 HOL)

·        Farewell to Manzanar: a true story of Japenese American experience during and after the World War II internment – Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki (940.54 HOU)

·        Missing in Action – Hughes, Dean

·        Mudbound – Jordan, Hillary

·        Weedflower – Kadohata, Cynthia

·        Shadow Knights: the secret war against Hitler – Kamiya, Gary (940.54 KAM)

·        Schindler’s List – Keneally, Thomas

·        Your Eyes in Stars – Kerr, M.E.

·        Death in the City of Light: the serial killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris – King, David (364.152 KIN)

·        A Separate Peace – Knowles, John

·        Clara’s War: one girl’s story of survival  - Kramer, Clara (940.53 KRA)

·        War in Italy, 1943-1945: a brutal story – Lamb, Richard

·        B for Buster – Lawrence, Iain

·        Living in Nazi Germany (943.086 LIV)

·        Easy Company soldier: the legendary battles of a sergent from World War II’s “Band of Brothers” – Malarkey, Don (940.54 MAL)

·        Overlord: D-Day and the invasion of Europe – Marrin, Albert (940.54 MAR)

·        In Defiance of Hitler: the secret mission of Varian Fry – McClafferty, Carla (940.53 MCC)

·        Battle of the Bulge – McNeese, Tim (940.54 MCN)

·        Left for Dead: a young man’s search for justice for the USS Indianapolis – Nelson, Peter (940.54 NEL)

·        Sisterland – Newbery, Linda

·        Raoul Wallenberg – Nicholson, Michael (940.54 WAL)

·        Fireweed – Paton Walsh, Jill

·        Best Friends Forever: a World War II scrapbook – Patt, Beverly

·        Pearl Harbor (940.54 PEA)

·        On the Wings of Heroes – Peck, Richard

·        Tamar – Peet, Mal

·        Johnny and the Bomb – Pratchett, Terry

·        Let Sleeping Dogs Lie – Pressler, Mirjam

·        The Border of Truth – Redel, Victoria

·        The Upstairs Room – Reiss, Johana (940.531 REI)

·        Strategic Battles in Europe – Rice, Earle (940.53 RIC)

·        The Bicycle Runner: a memoir of love, loyalty, and the Italian Resistance – Romagnoli, Franco (940.53 ROM)

·        Sarah’s Key – Rosnay, Tatiana

·        How I Live Now – Rosoff, Meg

·        Eyes of the Emperor – Salisbury, Graham

·        Pearl Harbor – Shapiro, William (940.54 SHA)

·        Flygirl – Smith, Sherri

·        Maus: A Survivor’s Tale – Spiegelman, Art

·        Milkweed – Spinelli, Jerry

·        The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 – Tarshis, Lauren

·        Ordinary Heroes – Turow, Scott

·        Slaughterhouse-Five – Vonnegut, Kurt

·        WWII: the people’s story (973.92 WOR)

·        The War: an intimate history, 1941-1945 – Ward, Geoffrey (940.53 WAR)

·        Code Name Verity – Wein, Elizabeth

·        Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941: America’s Darkest Day (940.54 WEL) – Wels, Susan

·        Night – Wiesel, Elie

·        World War II – Willmont, H.P. (740.54 WIL)

·        Four Steps to Death – Wilson, John

·        Midway – Worth, Richard (940.54 WOR)

·        World War II (940.54 WOR)

·        Soldier X – Wulffson, Dean

·        The Book Thief – Zusak, Marcus

The Cold War (1947-1991):

·        Black Bottles – Nothe, James

·        The Cold War (909.82 COL)

·        The Cold War (909.82 COL)

·        The Cold War: collapse of communism – Rice, Earle (327.47073 RIC)

·        The Cold War Ends: 1980 to the present – Bjornlund, Britta (909382 BJO)

·        The Cold War Period, 1945-1992 (973.92 COL)

·        Espionage – Keeley, Jennifer (327.1273047 KEE)

·        The Home Front – Campbell, Geoffrey (973.92 CAM)

Korean War (1950-1953):

·        Strategic Battles – Blohm, Craig (951.904 BLO)

·        The Marines of Autumn: a novel of the Korean War – Brady James

·        The Korean War (951.904 KOR)

·        The Korean War: how we met the challenge: how all-out Asian war was averted: why MacArthur was dismissed: why today’s war objectives must be limited – Ridgeway, Matthew (951.9 RID)

·        The Korean War – Uschan, Michael (951.904 USC)

Vietnam War (1956-1975):

·        America’s Failure in Vietnam – Brownell, Richard (959.704 BRO)

·        Battles and Campaigns in Vietnam – Carhart, Tom (959.704 CAR)

·        People of the Whale – Hogan, Linda

·        Search and Destroy – Hughes, Dean

·        The Home Front: Americans protest the war – Kallen, Stuart (959.704 KAL)

·        Rock ‘n’ roll Soldier – Kohler, Dean Ellis (959.704 KOH)

·        Free-fire Zone – Lynch, Chris

·        Sharpshooter – Lynch, Chris

·        In Country – Mason, Bobbie Ann

·        Fallen Angels – Myers, Walter Dean

·        The Things They Carried – O’Brien, Tim

·        I Love Yous are for White People – Su, Lac (959.7043 SU)

·        Into No Man’s Land – White, Ellen Emerson

·        Tet Offensive – Worth, Richard (959.704 WOR)

·        The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War – Zeinert, Karen (959.7043 ZEI)

First Persian Gulf War (1980-1988):

·        Operation : Homefront – Cooney, Caroline

·        The Persian Gulf War: Saddam’s Failed Invasion – Martin, Michael (956.7044 MAR)

·        The War against Iraq – Nardo, Don (956.7044 NAR)

·        Weapons of War – Speakman, Jay (956.7044 SPE)

·        Pride of Baghdad – Vaughan, Brian (741.5 VAU)

Falklands War (1982):

·        The Battle for the Falklands – Hasting, Max (997 HAS)

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Sudanese Civil War (1982-2005);

·        A Hare in the Elephant’s Trunk – Coates, Jan

·        War Child: voices of soldier’s children – Jal, Emmanuel (962.404 JAL)

Rwanda Civil War (1990-1993):

·        The Rwanda Genocide (967.57104 RWA)

·        A Thousand Sisters: my journey into the worst place on earth to be a woman – Shannon, Lisa (305.9 SHA)

Sierra Leon Civil War (1991-2002):

·        Diamonds in the Shadow – Cooney, Caroline

Afghanistan War (2001-Present):

·        The Longest War: enduring conflict between America and al-Quaeda – Bergen, Peter (909.83 BER)

·        Critical Perspectives on 9/11 (973.931 CRI)

·        Quaking – Erskine, Kathryn

·        The Fighting 69^th: one remarkable National Guard Unit’s Journey from Ground Zero to Baghdad – Flynn, Sean (356 FLY)

·        The Photographer: into war-torn Afghanistan with Docotrs Without Borders – Guibert, Emmanuel, Didier Lefevre, Frederic Lemercier (741.5 GUI)

·        Where Men Win Glory: the odyssey of Pat Tillman – Krakauer, Jon (796.33092 KRA/796.33092 TIL)

·        Thunder over Kandahar – McKay, Sharon

·        Under the Persimmon Tree – Staples, Suzanne Fisher

·        Life of an American Soldier in Afghanistan – Yancey, Diane (956.7044 YAN)

Iraq War (2003-2011):

·        Thura’s diary: my life in wartime Iraq – Al-Windawi, Thura (956.7044 ALW)

·        War Fix – Axe, David

·        My War: killing time in Iraq – Buzzell, Colby (956.7044 BUZ)

·        Iraq War – Carlisle, Rodney (956.7044 CAR)

·        Children of War: voices of Iraqi refugees – Ellis, Deborah (305.23086 ELL)

·        The World Beneath – Gwyn, Arron

·        IraqiGirl (956.7044 IRA)

·        Sweet Hereafter – Johnson, Angela

·        Back Home – Keller, Julia

·        The Deserter’s Tale: the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the War in Iraq – Key, Joshua (956.7044 KEY)

·        Peace is a Four Letter Word – Lynch, Janet Nichols

·        Purple Heart – McCormick, Patricia

·        Sniper One: on scope and under siege with a sniper team in Iraq – Mills, Dan (956.7044 MIL)

·        Sunrise over Fallujah – Myers, Walter Dean

·        Badd – Tharp, Tim

·        Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the new face of American war – Wright, Evan (956.7044 WRI)

General war:

·        Civil Liberties and War (342.73 CIV)

·        The Oxford Book of War Poetry (808.810 OXF)