MEMOIRSMilitary, War

UNLIKELY WARRIOR: A JEWISH SOLDIER IN HITLER’S ARMY BY GEORG RAUCHIn wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of

Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor

apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country.

His family was among the few who worked underground to

resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's

army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his

having confessed his own Jewish ancestry.

324 pages

CODE NAME PAULINE: MEMOIRS OF A WORLD WAR II SPECIAL AGENT BY PEARL CORNIOLEY

Pearl Witherington Cornioley joined the Special Operations Executive in 1943 and worked with the French Resistance as

an undercover courier and later, under the code name

“Pauline,” as a network leader of 3,500 men. She was

instrumental in the carrying out of numerous acts of sabotage during WWII.

184 pages

BATTLE READY BY MARK DONALDGripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze

Star & Purple Heart recipient. As a SEAL & combat medic, Mark

serviced for almost 25 years in some of the most dangerous combat actions

imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of battlefield,

the reader experiences the unique life of an elite

warrior-medic.352 pages

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

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 andresponded byenlisting in the

Army Reserve aftergraduation.322 pages

LONE SURVIVOR BY MARCUS LUTTRELLFour 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

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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 NEZThe 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 HERRWritten on the front lines in

Vietnam, 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 thebloodiest aspects of the

war, is also a suspensefulautobiography that willkeep you chewing yourfingernails to see if VanDevanter survives any

of it at all. 331 pages

A RUMOR OF WAR BY PHILIP CAPUTO

“To call it the best bookabout Vietnam is to

trivialize it.”356 pages