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Here's a list of some books we recommend ... click on the book link to find more information on the book.
The links go to Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
All of these
books are available through your local Library. Just ask a Librarian ...
[last updated January 24,
2004]
Aid and Comfort : Jane Fonda in North Vietnam
by Henry Mark Holzer and Erika Holzer
Hanoijane.net
Always Faithful : A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII
by Captain William W. Putney D.V.M,
U.S.M.C. (Ret.)
Leatherneck,
Magazine of the Marines
American Daughter Gone to War
by Winnie Smith
Angels of Mercy : The Army Nurses of World War II
by Betsy Kuhn
Back in the World: Chickenhawk's Life after Vietnam
by Robert C. Mason
http://robertcmason.com
Vietnam
The Bamboo Cage: The Full Story of the American Servicemen Still Missing in
South-East Asia
by Nigel Cawthorne
Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
by Stephen E. Ambrose
http://www.stephenambrose.com/
Behind the Lines : the Oral
History of Special Operations in World War II
by Russell Miller
WWII
Belly of the Beast : A POW's
Inspiring True Story of Faith, Courage, and Survival Aboard the Infamous
WWII Japanese Hell Ship Oryoku Maru
by Judith L. Pearson
Blood for Dignity : the Story of the First Integrated Combat Unit in the U.S. Army
by David Colley
Blood from a Stone : the
Quest for the Life Diamonds
by Yaron Svoray and Richard Hammer
Born to Fly : the Untold Story of the Downed American Reconnaissance
Plane
by Shane Osborn with Malcolm McConnell
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
by Robert Coram
Vietnam
Bouncing Back : How a Heroic Band of POWs Survived Vietnam
by Geoffrey Norman
Bringing
Down the House : the Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich
Crazy Horse and Custer : The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Vietnam
Chained Eagle
by Everett Alvarez and Anthony S. Pitch
Chickenhawk
by Robert Mason
http://robertcmason.com
The
Day the World Came to Town : 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim Defede
The Doughboys : America and
the First World War
by Gary Mead
The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey
by Gregory L. Vistica
World War II
Evidence Not Seen : A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
by Darlene Deibler Rose
Faces I Tried to Forget
by John Steer
John Steer's Book Page
Fighting Strength : Memoirs
of a Combat Nurse in Vietnam
by Lynn Hampton
Fragments of War : A Marine's Personal Journey
by Bertram A. Yaffe
General Ike : A Personal
Reminiscence
by John S. D. Eisenhower
G.I. Nightingales : The Army Nurse Corps in World War II
by Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Ghost Soldiers : The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
by Hampton Sides
Grief Denied : A Vietnam
Widow's Story
by Pauline Laurent, widow of Sgt. Howard E. Querry
The Healers War
by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Heart of a Soldier : A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11
by
James B. Stewart
The story about Rick Rescorla, the man on the book cover of "We Were Soldiers Once...and
Young"..
Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
by Ralph (Sonny) Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman
Home Before Morning : the Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by Lynda Van Devanter
Vietnam
Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973
by Stuart I. Rochester
Hostile Fire: The Life and Death of First Lieutenant Sharon Lane
by Philip Bigler
Sharon's name is inscribed on The Wall - Panel 23W, Line 112
In the Company of Heroes
by Michael J. Durant - Chief Warrant Officer 4 (Ret.)
In the River Sweet [Fiction]
by Patricia Henley
Jarhead : A Marine's
Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by Anthony Swofford
Keeping Faith : A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps
by John Schaeffer and Frank Schaeffer
The Killer Strain : Anthrax
and a Government Exposed
by Marilyn W. Thompson
The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps, Khe Sanh, Vietnam, 1968
by Ellen Emerson White
Young Adult Fiction; My
Name is America Series from Scholastic
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
by Peter Nelson
Let Their Spirits Dance [Fiction]
by Stella Pope Pope Duarte
World War II
Life As a Pow (American War Library) [Young Adult Non-Fiction]
by John F. Wukovits
A Long Way Home [Young Adult Fiction]
by Nancy Price Graff
Lost in the War [Young Adult Fiction]
by Nancy Antle, Stephen Marchesi
Lost Soldiers
by James Webb
Lucky
by Alice Sebold
The Marines of Autumn : a Novel of the Korean War
by James Brady
Night of the Silver Stars :
The Battle of Lang Vei
by William R. Phillips
World War II
Nightmare Memoir: Four Years as a Prisoner of the Nazis
by Claude J. Letulle
Gulf War
No One Left Behind : The Lt. Comdr. Michael Scott Speicher Story
by Amy Waters Yarsinske
None So Blind : A Personal
Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam
by George W. Allen
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
by Bob Greene
One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam
by Timothy N. Castle
The
Outpost War : U.S. Marines in Korea, Vol. 1: 1952
by Allan R. Millett
Paradise Bay [Fiction]
by James Michael Pratt
A Ranger Born : A Memoir of Combat and Valor from Korea to Vietnam
by Col. Robert W. Black
Korean War
Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War : An Oral History of Korean War POWs
by Lewis H. Carlson
Ridin' High, Livin' Free: Hell-Raising Motorcycle Stories
by Ralph Sonny Barger, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman
The Right Thing
by Scott Waddle, Ken Abraham
The Road Home [Young Adult Fiction]
by Ellen Emerson White
The Road to Baghdad (Behind
Enemy Lines : The Adventures of an American Soldier in the Gulf War
by Martin Stanton
The Silent Men
by Richard H. Dickinson
SOG : the Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam
by John L. Plaster
A Soldier's Best Friend :
Scout Dogs and Their Handlers in the Vietnam War
by MSgt John C. Burnam (U.S.A. Ret.)
http://www.vdhaonline.org
Darrell
Lee Colford, West Chicago, IL
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore Transformation of the U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam
by David H. Hackworth, Eilhys England
Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964
by Bobbi Hovis
Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
by David M. Toomey
Vietnam
Survivors: Vietnam POW's Tell Their Stories
by Zalin Grant
Taking Fire : The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot
by Ron Alexander
They Also Served : American Women in World War II
by Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt
Vietnam
They Wouldn't Let Us Die : The Prisoners of War Tell Their Own Story
by Stephen A. Rowan
To Heal a Nation : The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
by Jan Scruggs
A Time Remembered :
American Women in the Vietnam War
by Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt
World War II
Unjust Enrichment: How Japan's Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWs
by Linda Goetz Holmes
Up Country [Fiction]
by Nelson DeMille
Vietnam
The
Vietnam War : Life as a POW [Young Adult Non-Fiction]
by Diane Saenger, Bradley Steffens
Patriots
: The Vietnam War Remembered
From All Sides
by Christian C Appy
World War II
The War Journal of Major
Damon "Rocky" Gause : The Firsthand Account of One of
the Greatest Escapes of World War II
by Major Damon "Rocky" Gause
World War II
We Band of Angels : the Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
by Elizabeth M. Norman
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang -- The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
by Harold G. Moore, Joseph Galloway
Where Have All the Flowers Gone : The Diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty
by Ellen Emerson White
Young Adult Fiction; Dear
America Series from Scholastic
Women at War : the Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
by Elizabeth M. Norman
A
World of Hurt : Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam
by Mary Reynolds Powell
Other Web sites with
Bibliographies
Second Indochina War
POW-MIA Bibliography from Advocacy & Intelligence Index For POWs-MIAs
(AII POW-MIA)
http://www.vwip.org/mb/pow.htm
http://www.simonides.org/links/topics/individual/pow.html
http://www.eos.net/rrva/nampow/nampowbooks.html
Good article on Patriotism and Propaganda in Girls' Series:
Fictional Nurses of World War II at:
http://www.elliemik.com/warnurses.html
Just ask a Librarian ... 
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