For Young Adults
Sunrise over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: Young Adult Fiction
Robin Perry from Harlem is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion and his time there profoundly changes him.
War is … Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk about War
Call Number: YA 810.803 WAR
An anthology of fiction, speeches, poems, and essays about war.
For Children
The Enemy: A Book about Peace - Davide Cali
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction
A story about two lonely soldiers facing each other across a barren battlefield. What each discovers, as the story unfolds, is that the enemy is not a faceless beast, but rather a real person with family, friends, and dreams.
Wind Flyers - Angela Johnson
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction
Introduces young readers to the contributions of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II. A boy’s love of flight takes him on a journey from the dusty dirt roads of Alabama to the war-torn
skies of Europe.
Love Lizzie: Letters to a Military Mom - Lisa Tucker McElroy
Call Number: Juvenile Fiction
Nine-year-old Lizzie writes to her mother, who is deployed overseas during wartime, and includes maps that show her mother what Lizzie has been thinking and doing. Includes nonfiction tips for helping children of military families.
Off to war: Voices of Soldiers’ Children. - Deborah Ellis
Call Number: J 303.66 ELL
In their own words, children of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan describe their lives when a parent is far away.
In Flanders Fields: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae - Linda Granfield
Call Number: J 940.3 GRA
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage - Walter Dean Myers
Call Number: J 940.4 MYE
ISBN/ISSN: 006001136X
The true story of the African American heroes of World War I, the soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment, dubbed the “Harlem Hellfighters.”
Books for Veterans Day Reading
The Soldier's Return - Melvyn Bragg
Call Number: Fiction
Deeply scarred by traumatic memories of World War II, soldier Sam Richardson returns home in 1946 and strives to manage changes in his family.
In Country - Bobbie Ann Mason
On a pilgrimage to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., Sam, a recent high school graduate, tries to understand the strange behavior of her uncle Emmett and the death of the father she never knew, both victims of the Vietnam War.
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
This graphic novel reports the first-hand account of Robert McNeill, an African-American Vietnam War veteran from Cleveland, Ohio. McNeill joined the Marines as a nineteen-year-old recruit and recalls his experiences in boot camp and combat as well as his return home.
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Call Number: Fiction
Depicts the men of Alpha Company. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers, and love for each other, because in Vietnam they are the only family they have.
Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul
Stories of pride and honor and courage.
I Remember Korea - Linda Granfield
A collection of personal accounts of more than thirty men and women who served with the American and Canadian forces in Korea from 1950-1953.
Feature Films and Documentaries
Remembering Vietnam: The Wall at 25 - Lynn Kessler, director
Call Number: DVD 959.704 REM
Documentary film about the memorial through the eyes of those who conceived it, those who were instrumental in pushing it through bureaucratic and political resistance, those intimately involved with its 25-year history, and those it honors.
Winter Soldier
Call Number: DVD 959.704 WIN
Vietnam veterans struggle to come to terms with the war and their roles. This powerful documentary was originally released in 1972.
The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler, director
Call Number: Express DVD
Winner of 7 Academy Awards, this feature film depicts the problems faced by three veterans who return home after World War II and try to pick up their lives where they left off.
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