Adults - Memorial Day reads | Wiggin Memorial Library

1) Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific

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“A grand and epic prose poem . . . The purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom Hanks

See Robert Leckie's story in the HBO miniseries The Pacific
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942,...

2) Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania

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Larson, Erik

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It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the...

3) The D-Day companion: leading historians explore history's greatest amphibious assault

4) D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II

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Rose, Sarah

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"The dramatic, inspiring story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis, shore up the Resistance, and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II."--Provided by publisher. "In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Believing that Britain was locked in an existential battle, Winston Churchill had already created a secret agency, the Special...

5) Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day

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Hastings, Max

6) Ghost soldiers: the forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission

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Sides, Hampton

7) Facing the mountain: a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II

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Brown, Daniel James

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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and courage: the special Japanese-American Army unit that overcame brutal odds in Europe; their families, incarcerated in camps back home; and a young man who refused to surrender his constitutional rights, even if it meant imprisonment. They came from across the continent and Hawaii. Their parents taught them to embrace both their Japanese...

8) The red badge of courage and selected short fiction

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Crane, Stephen

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The Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction, by Stephen Crane, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies...

9) All quiet on the western front

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Remarque, Erich Maria

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Paul Baumer is just 19 years old when he and his classmates enlist. They are Germany's Iron Youth who enter the war with high ideals and leave it disillusioned or dead. As Paul struggles with the realities of the man he has become, and the inscrutable world to which he must return, he is led like a ghost of his former self into the war's final hours. All Quiet is one of the greatest war novels of all time, an eloquent expression of the futility, hopelessness...

10) The war we knew : residents of Riverwoods remember World War II

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"The authors, residents at RiverWoods in Exeter, New Hampshire, a continuing care retirement community, wrote their own memories, harking back to those times more than six decades ago."

11) The things they carried: a work of fiction

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O'Brien, Tim

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A series of connected stories based on the author's experiences in Vietnam.

12) Flags of our fathers

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Bradley, James

13) Code Burgundy: the long escape

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Katsaros, John

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"On July 16, 2005, John Katsaros sat down at his home in Haverhill, MA and told of his experiences in World War II. John served in the Army Air Corps in the European Theater. He was a gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress. Returning from a bombing mission his plane was shot out of the sky over France. Badly injured he managed to bail out, only to break ribs on the way down and shatter an ankle upon landing. Near death, he is captured by the Gestapo. He...

14) The Hello Girls : America's first women soldiers

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Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth

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"In World War I, telephones linked commanding generals with soldiers in muddy trenches. A woman in uniform connected almost every one of their calls, speeding the orders that won the war. Like other soldiers, the "Hello Girls" swore the Army oath and stayed for the duration. A few were graduates of elite colleges. Most were ordinary, enterprising young women motivated by patriotism and adventure, eager to test their mettle and save the world. The...

15) The Hello Girls: The 100-year Old Story of America's First Female Soldiers from WWI

16) Soldier dogs: the untold story of America's canine heroes

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Goodavage, Maria

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A leading dog-blogger offers a tour of military working dogs' extraordinary training, heroic accomplishments, and the lasting impact they have on those who work with them.

People all over the world have been riveted by the story of Cairo, the Belgian Malinois who was a part of the Navy SEAL team that led the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. A dog's natural intelligence, physical abilities, and pure loyalty contribute more to our military

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17) Switchboard soldiers: a novel

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Chiaverini, Jennifer

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"From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I-the women of the US Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military, smashed the workplace glass ceiling, and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the Allies to victory"--