Veterans Services Library Guide: Books and Videos
eBooks and eVidoes on military and experience
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A People's History of the U. S. Military by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 159558935XPublication Date: 2013-10-01In A People's History of the U.S. Military, historian Michael A. Bellesiles draws from three centuries of soldiers' personal encounters with combat—through fascinating excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as audio recordings, film, and blogs—to capture the essence of the American military experience firsthand, from the American Revolution to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -
Military Health Care by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 0415524024Publication Date: 2013-03-22This edited volume surveys critical aspects of modern military health care in the US and various other Western countries with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the United States, the military medical system, including care for veterans, is large and diverse and involves two institutions, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the US Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA). -
God and Country : Untold Stories of the American MilitaryCall Number: evideoPublication Date: 2008American troops have a long and noble tradition of humanitarian service. From distributing candy bars and care packages to street children, to offering medical and dental care to the poor, to building churches and orphanages in third-world countries, these American men and women commit thousands of hours to the service of others around the world, without expectation of gratitude or praise.
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Children of Military FamiliesCall Number: evideoPublication Date: 2014In Children of Military Families, several children share their personal stories of what it is like to have a parent in the military serving overseas.
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A History of War in 100 Battles by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 0199390711Publication Date: 2014-11-03The most significant military engagements in history define the very nature of war. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature of armed combat, advances in technology, shifts in strategy and thought, as well as altered geopolitical landscapes. -
We Monks and Soldiers by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 0803239912Publication Date: 2012-09-01From one of the most original French writers of our day comes a mysterious, prismatic, and at times profoundly sad reflection on humanity in its darker moments-one of which may very well be our own.
Fiction
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The Sheltering by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 1611174341Publication Date: 2014-08-12As the tales of Luther and Bobby unfold, Mark Powell masterfully engages with the vexing, bifurcated lives of combatants in the global war on terror, those who are simultaneously here and there and thus never fully freed from the life-and-death chaos of the battlefield.
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Redeployment by
Call Number: 813 KLAY 2014ISBN: 9781594204999In the title story, a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn what it is like to return to domestic life in suburbia, surrounded by people "who have no idea where Fallujah is, where three members of your platoon died." In "After-Action Report", a Lance Corporal seeks expiation for a killing he didn't commit, in order that his best friend will be unburdened. A Mortuary Affairs Marine tells about his experiences collecting remains-of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers both. A chaplain sees his understanding of Christianity, and his ability to provide solace through religion, tested by the actions of a ferocious Colonel. And in the darkly comic "Money as a Weapons System", a young Foreign Service Officer is given the absurd task of helping Iraqis improve their lives by teaching them to play baseball. -
The things they carried by
Call Number: 813 OBRIEN 2009A classic collection of short stories on the Vietnam War. The title story is a must read. -
Fire and forget: Short stories from the long war by
Call Number: FIREAND 2013 -
Billy Lynn's long halftime walk by
Call Number: POPULAR FOUNTAI 2012A satire set in Texas follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders. Made into a movie. -
The yellow birds by
Call Number: POPULAR POWERS 2012The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. The novel also offers insight into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home.
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FIghting in Afghanistan and Iraq
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The good soldiers by
Call Number: 956.7044 F56g 2010 -
War by
Call Number: POPULAR JUNGER 2010Follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. By the author of "The Perfect Storm." -
The Fighters by
ISBN: 9781451676648Publication Date: 2018-08-14Chivers traces the combat experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan of an F-14 pilot, a helicopter crew, a corpsman with the Marines in Anbar and infantry in the Korengal Valley. The author won a Pulitzer Prize.
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This is War: Memories of Iraq by
Call Number: Sylvania Videos 956.7 T45 2007Publication Date: 2007Follows nine National Guard soldiers from Oregon, who ended up in some of the heaviest fighting of the Iraq war. Most of the photographs and footage were taken from the cameras of the soldiers themselves.
Women in the military
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Women in the military. Alene B. Duerk : the first woman admiralCall Number: evideoPublication Date: 2020This short films tells the story of Alene B. Duerk, the first woman to earn the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Admiral Duerk served in World War II and during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. After retiring, she went on to deliver meals to the elderly before passing away in her late 90s.
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It's My Country Too by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 1612348319Publication Date: 2017-07-01This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words—from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East -
When Janey comes marching home: Portraits of women combat veteran by
Call Number: ebookWhen Janey Comes Marching Home juxtaposes forty-eight photographs by Sascha Pflaeging with oral histories collected by Laura Browder to provide a dramatic portrait of women at war. Women from all five branches of the military share their stori -
Soldier girls: The battles of three women at home and at war by
Call Number: 956.7044 T46s 2014ISBN: 9781451668100The three become close friends, and through their daily interaction we see how military service changes their relationships with their families, their lovers, and their children. -
Ashley's war by
Call Number: 958.104 T94a 2015 -
The invisible war by
Call Number: VIDEOS 362.88 I58 2012ISBN: 9781422922002An investigative documentary about the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.
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Memoirs
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Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 1574412418Publication Date: 2008-01-29She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the US Army. -
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Donut Dolly by
Call Number: ebookISBN: 1574413244Publication Date: 2011-10-04Donut Dolly puts you in the Vietnam War face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next to a commanding general, and slogging through the mud along a line of foxholes. -
My life as a foreign country by
Call Number: 956.7044 T87m2014ISBN: 9780393245011"A war memoir of unusual literary beauty and power from the acclaimed poet who wrote the poem 'The Hurt Locker.' -
Beyond the call: Three women on the front lines in Afghanistan by
Call Number: 958.104 R58b 2018 -
The Long Walk by
Call Number: POPULAR CASTNER 2013ISBN: 9780307950871Publication Date: 2013-04-09The author did three tours disarming IEDs. -
Bloods by
ISBN: 9780345311979Publication Date: 1985-07-12The experiences of 20 African-American soldiers in Vietnam, told by the soldiers themselves. -
See Me for Who I Am by
ISBN: 9781944079017Publication Date: 2016-02-15Twenty veterans, now college students, write about who they are, hoping to undermine stereotypes about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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