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Summary: Named for the insignia of the First Infantry Division, this World War II combat film (based on Fuiller's own war experiences) follows a handful of young GIs and their sergeant as they battle their way from North Africa through Sicily, Omaha Beach and Belgium to the ultimate horror of the concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia. This restoration was based on Fuller's shooting script and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIG

Zuehlke, Mark

Summary: Recounts how two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment fought--sometimes hand-to-hand--against German troops for the small Italian port of Ortona in December of 1943, one of the most notable battles ever waged by the Canadians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Raven Books, an imprint of Orca Book Publishers 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 ZUE

Wright, Stephen L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 WRI

Lowry, Chag

Summary: Based on the true-life story of Yurok men called to serve in World War I, this story follows three cousins as they struggle with being combat soldiers on the Western Front.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Great Oak Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 LOW

McManus, John C.

Summary: Provides a detailed, harrowing account of the D-Day assault on Omaha Beach from the perspective of the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division as well as from the Gap Assault Team engineers who dealt with mines and other dangerous obstacles.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MCM

Raven, Margot Theis.

Summary: "A stray dog named Rags befriends a U.S. soldier in Paris, France, during WWI. Rags traveled with the troops carrying messages from the front line to the back. His loyalty kept him by his owner's side until Sergeant Donovan died at the base hospital in Chicago"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 RAV

Larimore, Walt

Summary: What makes 2nd Lieutenant Phil Larimore's story special is what happened in World War II's closing days and the people, and horses, he interacted with in this Forrest Gump-like tale that is emotional, heartbreaking, and inspiring.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Permuted Press, LLC 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LARIMORE, PHILIP B. LAR

Summary: "William Boston has just joined the all-black 24th infantry of the United States Army. A natural leader, Boston quickly rises within his troop and is looked up to by the others. When the men are sent to the South, where racism runs rampant in a merciless community, the troop is pushed to their limit. After endless brutal acts of violence, Boston and the men turn their fear and rage against the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 24TH

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWE

Summary: Follows a group of soldiers through the Battle of the Bulge.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAT

McGaugh, Scott

Summary: The story of the 442nd, a segregated unit of Japanese American citizens, commanded by white officers, that finally rescued the "lost battalion." Their unmatched courage and sacrifice under fire became legend - all the more remarkable because many of the soldiers had volunteered from prison-like "interment" camps where sentries watched their mothers and fathers from the barbed-wire perimeter. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 MCG

Megellas, James.

Summary: What World War II Lieutenant Megellas's memoir lacks in narrative force and elegance it makes up for in its unvarnished contribution to the historical record. Megellas was a senior at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis. during the Pearl Harbor attack; barely six months later, he had reported for duty and soon was enlisted in the storied 82nd Airborne Division. Landing in Italy on the eve of the Anzio...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MEG

Edstrom, Erik

Summary: "A whistle-blowing manifesto about America's unchallenged war machine, from a new kind of military hero. First: Imagine your own death. Second: Imagine America's wars from "the other side." Third: Imagine what might have been if the war were never fought.Un-American poses these startling circumstances in a searing examination of America and Americans at war. Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EDSTROM, ERIK EDS

Shaw, Art

Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, ART SHA

Guarnere, William.

Summary: Guarnere gives a gripping account of D-day from the partrooper's perspective. In vivid detail, Guarnere and Heffron re-create dropping into Holland to capture the roads and bridges between Eindhoven and Arnhem, known as Hell's Highway. Through much of 1944 the friends fought side by side--until Guarnere lost his right leg in the Battle of the Bulge and was sent home. Heffron went on to liberate...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GUA

Egerton, Douglas R

Summary: Almost immediately after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, abolitionists began to call for the raising of black regiments. The South and most of the North responded with outrage. Southerners vowed to enslave black soldiers captured in battle, while many northerners claimed that blacks lacked the courage to fight. Yet Boston's Brahmins, always eager for a moral crusade,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 EGE

McManus, John C.

Summary: Describes the history of the American soldier during four decades of warfare, from the Battle of the Bulge to counterinsurgency combat in Iraq.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 356.114 MCM

Parnell, Sean

Summary: A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery .

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 PAR

Wise, Beau

Summary: "From Beau Wise and Tom Sileo comes Three Wise Men, an incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat--becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan. Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WIS

Steinman, Louise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5425 STE

Shepard, Ray Anthony

Summary: Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, An Imprint of Highlights 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 973.7 SHE

Stanton, Doug

Summary: A portrait of the American recon platoon of the 101st Airborne Division describes their sixty-day fight for survival during the 1968 Tet Offensive, tracing their postwar difficulties with acclimating into a peacetime America that did not want to hear their story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 STA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.7 STA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7 STA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 959.7 STA

Lapati, JoAnna

Summary: "Through scratchboard art and quotes from the subject's letters, this picture book biography follows the life of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, who served in the Union army disguised as a man. Back matter materials include an author's note, two glossaries, recommended reading, a timeline of events, and additional historical information"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2024

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DeAngelis, Gina.

Summary: Explains the events leading up to the formation of the Massachusetts 54th, a regiment of free blacks, and its participation in the Civil War. Sidebars include quotations from leaders of the time and facts about African American soldiers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2003

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.7 DEA

Bradwell, Isaac Gordon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7458 BRA

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