books, videos, websites

Soldiers

Cyrano

Geraldine McCaughrean

Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano love

FIC
MCC

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

After he is released from the Army, John Tyree plans to spend the rest of his life with University of North Carolina student Savannah Lynn Curtis, but the events of September 11 change everything.

FIC
SPA

Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo

When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his chi

FIC
Mor

The Korean War

Diane Yancey

This book discusses the lives of American soldiers during the Korean Conflict, the kind of war they fought, and the distress caused by returning home to find that their efforts went virtually unnotice

951.904
Yan

Private Peaceful

Michael Morpurgo

When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his chi

FIC
MOR

Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein

Follows an army recruit of the future through the toughest boot camp of the Universe--and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most alarming enemy.

FIC
HEI

Visions From a Foxhole

William A. Foley

William Foley presents an account of his experiences in 1945 as an eighteen-year-old soldier with Patton's 94th Infantry Division of the XX Corps in Germany, and includes a selection of drawings he di

940.54
FOL

A Matter of Profit

Hilari Bell

Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assa

FIC
BEL

War Letters

A variety of letters written by American servicemen which include accounts of combat, complaints about conditions, philosophical musings, love letters, and final thoughts.

355
WAR