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Memoirs
  • Military, War

2
Unlikely Warrior a Jewish Soldier in Hitlers
Army by Georg Rauch
  • In wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother
    hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false
    walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange
    for their safe transport out of the country. His
    family was among the few who worked underground
    to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was
    drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to
    fight on the Eastern front as part of the German
    infantry--in spite of his having confessed his
    own Jewish ancestry.
  • 324 pages

3
Code Name Pauline memoirs of a World War II
Special Agent by Pearl Cornioley
  • Pearl Witherington Cornioley joined the Special
    Operations Executive in 1943 and worked with the
    French Resistance as an undercover courier and
    later, under the code name Pauline, as a
    network leader of 3,500 men. She was instrumental
    in the carrying out of numerous acts of sabotage
    during WWII.
  • 184 pages

4
Battle Ready by Mark Donald
  • Gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star,
    Bronze Star Purple Heart recipient. As a SEAL
    combat medic, Mark serviced for almost 25 years
    in some of the most dangerous combat actions
    imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to
    the horrors of battlefield, the reader
    experiences the unique life of an elite
    warrior-medic.
  • 352 pages

5
Damn Few Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke
Denver
  • Explaining the unique
  • psychology behind the
  • SEALs' legendary training
  • program, a high-level
  • SEAL officer reveals the
  • modern techniques that
  • transform a chosen few
  • into lethal warriors and
  • details how the SEALs'
  • creative operations
  • became front-and-centerin
  • America's War on Terror.
  • 290 pages

6
NO TURNING BACK ONE MANS INSPIRING TRUE STORY
OF COURAGE, DETERMINATION AND HOPE BY BRYAN
ANDERSON
  • Anderson enlisted in the Army in 2001. He served
    2 tours of duty in Iraq. In 2005, Bryan was
    injured by an IED that resulted in the loss of
    both legs and his left hand. He is one of the
    few triple amputees that have survived. This is
    his story.
  • 235 pages

7
SEAL Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal
Sniper by Howard Wasdin
  • SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with
    counterterrorism,
  • hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this
    dramatic, behind the-scenes chronicle, Howard
    Wasdin takes
  • readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and
    Special Forces
  • snipers. Additional copies available at
    Voorheesville Public Library.
  • 331 pages

8
I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Howard E. Wasdin
  • Abbreviated version of Seal Team Six for teen
    audience.
  • 177 pages.

9
American Sniper by Chris Kyle
  • Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, "American
    Sniper" is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL
    Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 255 confirmed
    kills make him the most deadly sniper in U.S.
    military history.
  • 381 pages

10
No Easy Day the Autobiography of a Navy Seal by
Mark Owen
  • For the first time anywhere, the first-person
    account of the planning and execution of the Bin
    Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the
    terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final
    moments.
  • 316 pages

11
The Heart and the Fist the Education of a
Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL by Eric
Greitens
309 pages
12
Until Tuesday a Wounded Warrior the Golden
Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalvan
  • Luis and Tuesday are two true American heroes.
    This powerful story is a testament to the courage
    of veterans both on and off the battlefield.
  • 252 pages

Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public
Library
13
Ghosts of War the True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
by Ryan Smithson
  • Smithson experienced
  • the events of 9/11 while
  • in high school and
  • responded by
  • enlisting in the
  • Army Reserve after
  • graduation.
  • 322 pages

14
Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
  • Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in
    early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan
    Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission.
    Their task was to document the activity of an
    al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin
    Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold.
    Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS
    made it out alive. 392 pages

15
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
James Houston
  • Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when
    her family was uprooted from their home sent to
    live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000
    other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight
    towers armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously
    featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops,
    baton twirling lessons a dance band called the
    JiveFarewell to Manzanar is the true story of
    one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt
    to survive the indignities of forced detention .
    . . and of a native-born American child who
    discovered what it was like to grow up behind
    barbed wire in the United States.
  • 203 pages

16
I Have Lived a Thousand Years Growing Up in the
Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
  • This Holocaust memoir
  • describes what happens
  • to a Jewish girl who is
  • 13 when the Nazis
  • invade Hungary in
  • 1944. She tells of a year
  • of roundups, transports,
  • selections, camps,
  • torture, forced labor,
  • and shootings, then of
  • liberation and the
  • return of a few.
  • 224 pages

17
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree a Memoir of a
Schindlers List Survivor by Laura Hillman
  • In 1942 Berlin,
  • Hannelore, 16, bravely
  • volunteers to be
  • deported with her
  • mother and two younger
  • brothers to Poland. Of
  • course, they are soon
  • separated, and during
  • the next three years
  • Hannelore is moved
  • through eight
  • concentration camps.
  • 241 pages

18
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
  •  A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the
    youngest children to survive the Holocaust on
    Oskar Schindler's list. Leon Leyson (born Leib
    Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis
    invaded Poland and his family was forced to
    relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible
    luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to
    survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that
    of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow,
    the concentration camp outside Krakow.
  • 231 pages

19
In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by
Irene Gut Opdyke
  • Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans
    and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a
    girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose
    to defy it.
  • 276 pages

Available at the Voorheesville Public Library YA
921 OPDYKE
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BEYOND BAND OF BROTHERS THE WAR MEMOIRS OF MAJOR
DICK WINTERS BY DICK WINTERS
  • The commander of Easy Company provides a
    firsthand memoir of combat during World War II,
    describing the role of the Band of Brothers
    during the D-Day invasion, the march into
    Germany, and the liberation of an S.S. death
    camp.
  • 304 pages

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CODE TALKER THE FIRST AND ONLY MEMOIR BY ONE OF
THE ORIGINAL NAVAJO CODE TALKERS OF WORLD WAR ii
BY CHESTER NEZ
  • The first and only memoir by one of the original
    Navajo code talkers of World War II. Although
    more than 400 Navajos served as top-secret code
    talkers, even those fighting should to shoulder
    with them were not told of their cover function.
  • 310 pages

22
DISPATCHES BY MICHAEL HERR
  • Written on the front lines in
  • Vietnam, Dispatches became an
  • immediate classic of war reportage when it was
    published in 1977. From its terrifying opening
    pages
  • to its final eloquent words,
  • Dispatches makes us see, in
  • unforgettable and unflinching
  • detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the
    surreal insanity of life in that singular combat
    zone.
  • 260 pages

23
Home Before Morning the Story of an Army Nurse
in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
  • This incredible story,
  • which plunges us
  • immediately into the
  • bloodiest aspects of the
  • war, is also a suspenseful
  • autobiography that will
  • keep you chewing your
  • fingernails to see if Van
  • Devanter survives any
  • of it at all.
  • 331 pages

24
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
  • To call it the best book
  • about Vietnam is to
  • trivialize it.
  • 356 pages
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