Back Wartime Experiences | Book List

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Wartime Experiences  
Bring Out the Dog: Stories

Will Mackin - Random House
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of The Things They Carried and Redeployment, this short story collection reveals a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most clandestine circles of modern warfare - from a U.S. Navy veteran who completed five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Read More check catalog
 
 
At the Edge of Summer: A Novel

Jessica Brockmole - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book

The acclaimed author of Letters from Skye returns with an extraordinary story of a friendship born of proximity but boundless in the face of separation and war. Luc Crpet is accustomed to his mother bringing wounded creatures to their idyllic chteau in the French countryside. Yet his maman's...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Atomic City Girls: A Novel

Janet Beard - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II."What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it stay here."In November 1944, eighteen-year-old...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The War Reporter: A Novel

Martin Fletcher - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Winner of a Jewish National Book Award and author of The List and Jacob's Oath, both of which achieved outstanding critical acclaim, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher delivers another breathtaking tale of love, war, and redemption.Tom Layne was a world-class television...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Things They Carried

Lucy Calkins - Mariner Books
Format: Paperback

A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Fire by Night: A Novel

Teresa Messineo - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

The International Bestselller!A powerful and evocative debut novel about two American military nurses during World War II that illuminates the unsung heroism of women who risked their lives in the fight - a riveting saga of friendship, valor, sacrifice, and survival combining the grit and selflessness...
Read More check catalog