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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain - Center Point; Lrg edition
Format: Book
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(2012, Fiction). Iraq war soldiers home for a brief leave are feted at the Super Bowl; the narrator, while drinking and horsing around with his buddies, quietly observes the event's shallow patriotism and absurdities.
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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
Ernest Hemingway - Scribner
Format: Book
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(1929, Fiction). Hemingway turned his short World War I battlefield experience into this classic novel of a wounded American soldier and his affair with an English nurse.
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Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
J. Todd Moye - Oxford University Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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(2010, Nonfiction) In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of the brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project.
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Thank You for Your Service
David Finkel - Farrar Straus & Giroux
Format: Book
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(2013, Nonfiction). Ten years after their battalion returns from Baghdad, Finkel looks into the lives of American veterans who are stuggling to adjust life back home.
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The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien - Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD
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(1990, Fiction). Linked stories that recount the Vietnam War from a foot soldier's perspective, while raising questions about the interplay of memory, imagination and narrative.
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Denis Johnson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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(2007, Fiction). A massive novel of Vietnam centered around a conflicted intelligence officer and his uncle, a brash general from World War II.
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand - Delacorte
Format: Book
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(2010, Nonfiction). Hillenbrand tells the story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II Army Air Corps bombardier whose plane went down in the Pacific. His incredible survival at sea ended with his being captured by the Japanese.
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