You
can continue to enjoy the richness of the Library's collections
by going to these suggested
links that will be of special interest to kids and
families!
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WWI
Coffman, Edward M. The War to End All Wars: The American
Military Experience in World War I. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1968.
Fussel, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. 25th anniversary
ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American
Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Schneider, Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach:
American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking,
1991.
WWII
Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random
House, 1998.
Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking,
1990.
Hartmann, Susan M. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women
in the 1940s. 1982.
Larabee, Benjamin, et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime
History. Mystic, Conneticut: Mystic Seaport Publications,
1998.
The Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Thomas J.
Weiner. Voices of War: Stories of Service from the Home and
the Front Lines. Washington, DC: National Geographic. 2003
Pyle, Ernie. Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World
War II Dispatches. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Terkel, Studs. "The Good War": An Oral History of World
War Two. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Korean War
Blair, Clay. The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950-1953.
New York: Times Books, c1987.
Leckie, Robert. Conflict: The History of the Korean War,
1950-53. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.
Berry, Henry. Hey Mac, Where Ya Been? Living Memories of
the U.S. Marines in the Korean War. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1988.
Vietnam War
Hellman, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1986
Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of
American Women in Vietnam. New York: Penguin, 1988.
Esper, George. The Eyewitness History of the Vietnam War,
1961-1975. New York: Ballantine, 1983.
Persian Gulf War
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman. It Doesn't Take a Hero. New
York: Bantam Books, 1992.
Atkinson, Rick. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian
Gulf War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.
Marolda, Edward J. and Robert J. Schneller, Jr. Shield and
Sword: The U.S. Navy and the Persian Gulf War. Washington:
Naval Historical Center, 1998.
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