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Soldiers, Spies, and Sailors - War Stories Come Alive

359.984 S
Sontag, Sherry
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
It's the Cold War and the underwater spies are busy at work.

363.123 T
Thompson, Charles C.
A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion of the USS Iowa and Its Cover-up
In 1989 a gun-turret aboard the battleship explodes killing 47 men. What happened to the investigation? Here's the true story from a former naval officer and producer of 60 Minutes.

363.179 H
Huchthausen, Peter et al.
Hostile Waters
A Soviet submarine sinks off the Bermuda waters in 1986. But could it have been a disaster worse than Chernobyl?

910.91 M
Maas, Peter
The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
In 1939 the newest American submarine plunges deep into the North Atlantic waters. There is no hope for the crew . . . until Swede Momsen surprises them all.

940.53 L
Jordan, Killian and Barbara Baker, eds.
Life, Our Finest Hour: The Triumphant Spirit of America's World War II Generation
A brilliant collection of those memorable photographs that filled the pages of Life magazine and brought the war home to a generation of Americans.

940.53 W
Willis, Clint, ed.
The War: Stories of Life and Death from World War II
A compelling assortment.

940.54 C
Cogan, Frances B.
Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945
The comfortable lives of over 5000 Americans are shattered with the Japanese invasion of the US controlled island. How do they survive?

940.5421 A
Ambrose, Stephen
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 .
The GIs are the real heroes of war. In Ambrose's hands they make the war come alive for us.

940.5421 B
Balkoski, Joseph
Beyond the Beachhead: The 29^th Infantry Division in Normandy
It is life on the Front in all its worst moments . . . and some of its glorious ones.

940.5426 B
Bradley, James
Flags of Our Fathers
Here are the stories of the six reluctant heroes who raised the flag at Iwo Jima by the son of one of them.

940.5426 P
Prange, Gordon W.
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
A classic account of Pearl Harbor that captures the pulse of the moment.

940.5486 M
McIntosh, Elizabeth
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS
Movie stars and debutantes, Ivy Leaguers and wealthy women—they risked it all for the Allied cause.

951.042 C
Chang, Iris
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Japanese massacres of Chinese civilians and soldiers make another terrifying tale of the war.

951.9 H
Chancey, Jennie Ethell, ed.
Hot Shots: An Oral History of Air Force Combat Pilots of the Korean War
Straight from the heart of those who were there.

959.704 A
Angers, Trent
The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story
A single brave soul tries to stop the genocide against the innocent victims at My Lai in Vietnam. Discover the man who is a real hero.

967 B
Bowden, Mark
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
It was meant to be a quick and clean swoop down on Mogadishu. But it killed 18 American soldiers and scores more of Somalians.

973.73 S
Sneden, Robert Knox
Eye of the Storm: A Civil War Odyssey
A young volunteer with the Union army left behind hundreds of brilliant sketches, maps and journal entries. Discovered only recently, they've made it into print!

B B
Brehm, Jack and Pete Nelson
That Others May Live: The True Story of a PJ, a Member of America's Most Daring Rescue Force
It is life or death every moment of the way for Jack Brehm and other parachute rescue jumpers who proudly declare, "these things we do, that others may live."

B G
Greene, Bob
Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
It was only at the end of his father's life that Greene comes to terms with the men and the generation that dropped the atomic bomb.

B S
Sugarman, Tracy
My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings
50 years after D-Day Sugarman discovers that his wife had preserved all the letters and sketches he had sent home during the war.

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