MEMOIRSGrade 10
2013-2014
MILITARY, WAR
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
NO TURNING BACK: ONE MAN’S 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
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
takesreaders deep inside the world of
Navy SEALS and Special Forces
snipers. Additional copies available at Voorheesville
Public Library.331 pages
I AM A SEAL TEAM SIX WARRIOR BY HOWARD E. WASDIN
Abbreviated version of Seal Team Six for teen
audience.
177 pages.
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
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
THE HEART AND THE FIST: THE EDUCATION OF A HUMANITARIAN, THE MAKING OF A NAVY SEAL BY ERIC GREITENS
309 pages
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
This author will be visiting the Voorheesville Public
Library this week!
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
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
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 Jive…Farewell 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
I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS: GROWING UP IN THE HOLOCAUST BY LIVIA BITTON-JACKSON
This Holocaust memoirdescribes what happens
to a Jewish girl who is13 when the Nazisinvade Hungary in
1944. She tells of a yearof roundups, transports,
selections, camps,torture, forced labor,
and shootings, then ofliberation and the
return of a few.224 pages
I WILL PLANT YOU A LILAC TREE: A MEMOIR OF A SCHINDLER’S LIST SURVIVOR BY LAURA HILLMAN
In 1942 Berlin, Hannelore, 16, bravely
volunteers to bedeported 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
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
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
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
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
DISPATCHES BY MICHAEL HERR
Written on the front lines inVietnam, 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
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
A RUMOR OF WAR BY PHILIP CAPUTO
“To call it the best book
about Vietnam is to
trivialize it.”
356 pages