Happy Veterans Day! Thank you to all those who have, and currently serve. Let’s lift the voices of veterans and celebrate their bravery by checking out some books authored by Vets themselves, or telling their epic stories of bravery. Books about our Veterans aren’t just limited to nonfiction battle accounts! There are lots of emotional memoirs, as well as sweeping fiction stories with heroic characters – including a few by best selling authors. Also included are some thought provoking takes on war and the military industrial complex. We recommed:






Courage has no color: the true story of the Triple Nickles : America’s first black paratroopers
Stone, Tanya Lee
The impossible knife of memory
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Unknown valor: a story of family, courage, and sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima
MacCallum, Martha
Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
Hillenbrand, Laura
American sniper: the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
Kyle, Chris
@WAR: the rise of the military-Internet complex
Harris, Shane
Flyboys: a true story of courage
Bradley, James
An army at dawn: the war in North Africa, 1942-1943
Atkinson, Rick
Double cross: the true story of the D-day spies
Macintyre, Ben
Walk in my combat boots: true stories from America’s bravest warriors
Patterson, James
War hawk (A Tucker Wayne Novel)
Rollins, James
Grunt: the curious science of humans at war
Roach, Mary
No easy day: the autobiography of a Navy SEAL
Owen, Mark
Girls of flight city: inspired by true events, a novel of WWII, the Royal Air Force, and Texas
Heath, Lorraine