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In The Trenches: Soldiers' War Memories

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Americian soldiers, from the Revolution to Iraq, tell their stories.  Visit our Veterans’ History Project page for interviews of local veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
American Revolution: Primary Sources
973.3 P952

Civil War, 1861-1865
Company Aytch, or, a Side Show of the Big Show by Sam Watkins
973.7468 W335co

Indian Wars, colonial era – 1890
It is a Good Day to Die: Indian Eyewitnesses Tell the Story of the Battle of Little Bighorn
973.82 V795it

World War I, 1914-1918
Fighting the Flying Circus by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker
940.44 R539 – Find this book in our catalog by searching for “Rickenbacker and flying circus”

World War II, 1939-1945
A Different Battle: Stories of Asian Pacific American Veterans
355.10973 D569
Alan’s War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope by Emmanuel Guibert
940.541273092 C782GU
Tempest, Fire & Foe: Destroyer Escorts in World War II and the Men Who Manned Them
940.545973 A567te

Korea, 1950-1953
I Remember Korea: Veterans Tell Their Stories of the Korean War, 1950-53
951.90420922 G756i

Vietnam, 1961-1975
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
959.7043092 C255ru
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
959.70430922 D285

Bosnia, 1991-1995
Basher Five-Two: the True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady
949.703 O35ba

Persian Gulf, 1991
Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and other Battles by Anthony Swofford
956.70442092 S979ja
Spare Parts: a Marine Reservist’s Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days by Buzz Williams
956.70442092 W721sp

Iraq, 2003-
I Am a Soldier, Too: the Jessica Lynch Story by Rick Bragg
BIOGRAPHY Lynch, J.
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-year-old GI by Ryan Smithson
956.704431092 S664gh

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