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- "Dearest Barb" : from Karachi, 1943-1945 : letters and photographs in the World War II papers of a naval intelligence officer, Lieutenant Albert Zimmerman, USNR
- "Oh, God, I'm dead" : a journey back to life : a true story of one Vietnam veteran who made a journey back from living death
- "The fightin'est ship" : the story of the cruiser "Helena"
- "This is no drill!" : living memories of the attack on Pearl Harbor
- "We will stand by you" : serving in the Pawnee, 1942-1945
- ...Balkan journal
- 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers
- 12 strong : the declassified true story of the horse soldiers
- 12, 20 & 5; a doctor's year in Vietnam
- 13 hours : a firsthand account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 13 hours : the inside account of what really happened in Benghazi
- 15 years of war : how the longest war in U.S. history affected a military family in love, loss, and the cost of service
- 200,000 heroes : American O.S.S. and Italian partisans in WW II
- 2355 days : a POW's story
- 56th Evac. Hospital : letters of a WWII army doctor
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the medal of honor
- 8 seconds of courage : a soldier's story from immigrant to the medal of honor
- A Flying Tiger's diary
- A Navy maverick comes of age, 1939-1945
- A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II
- A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World War II
- A Yank in Bomber Command
- A Yank in Bomber Command
- A boy no more
- A chance for love : the World War II letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR
- A code to keep : the true story of America's longest-held civilian prisoner of war in Vietnam
- A colonel in the armored divisions : a memoir, 1941-1945
- A colonel in the armored divisions : a memoir, 1941-1945
- A company of heroes : [a documentary film]
- A different battle : stories of Asian Pacific American veterans
- A fence away from freedom : Japanese Americans and World War II
- A hundred miles of bad road : an armored cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68
- A journal for Jordan : a story of love and honor
- A life disturbed : my Pacific war revisited
- A life in a year : the American infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972
- A lonely kind of war : forward air controller, Vietnam
- A man of intelligence : memoirs of war, peace, and the CIA
- A nightmare's prayer : a Marine Corps Harrier pilot's war in Afghanistan
- A patch of ground : Khe Sanh remembered
- A patriot after all : the story of a Chicano Vietnam vet
- A patriot after all : the story of a Chicano Vietnam vet
- A personal war in Vietnam
- A personal war in Vietnam
- A piece of my heart : the stories of 26 American women who served in Vietnam
- A private war : an American code officer in the Belgian Congo
- A proud American : the autobiography of Joe Foss
- A quiet American : the secret war of Varian Fry
- A ramble through my war : Anzio and other joys
- A ramble through my war : Anzio and other joys
- A ranger born : a memoir of combat and valor from Korea to Vietnam
- A rope and a prayer : a kidnapping from two sides
- A rumor of war
- A sailor's story
- A secret war: : Americans in China, 1944-1945
- A sniper's journey : the truth about the man behind the rifle
- A soldier reports
- A soldier's best friend : scout dogs and their handlers in the Vietnam War
- A soldier's promise : the heroic true story of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy
- A soldier's story
- A table in the presence
- A wartime log
- A wing and a prayer : the "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in action over Europe in World War II
- A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
- A-train : memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
- Above and beyond, 1941-1945
- Acceptable loss
- Accused American war criminal
- Aces & aerial victories : the United States Air Force in Southeast Asia, 1965-1973
- African American voices from Iwo Jima : personal accounts of the battle
- After My Lai : my year commanding first platoon, Charlie Company
- Against all odds : shot down over occupied territory in World War II
- Air Apaches : the true story of the 345th Bomb Group and its low, fast, and deadly missions in World War II
- Air combat at 20 feet : selected missions from a Straffer [i.e., Strafer] pilot's diary
- Air combat with the mighty 8th : a teenage warrior in World War II
- Alive day memories : home from Iraq
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor
- All the way to Berlin : a paratrooper at war in Europe
- All the ways we kill and die : an elegy for a fallen comrade and the hunt for his killer
- All-out on the road to Smolensk
- Allies & mates : an American soldier with the Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam, 1966-67
- Alone and unarmed,
- Alpha one sixteen : a combat infantryman's year in Vietnam
- Alpha strike Vietnam : the Navy's air war, 1964 to 1973
- Always faithful : a memoir of the Marine dogs of WWII
- Ambush Valley : I Corps, Vietnam 1967 : the story of a Marine infantry battalion's battle for survival
- Ambush alley : the most extraordinary battle of the Iraq War
- America's heroes : inspiring stories of courage, sacrifice and patriotism
- American Lions : the 332nd Infantry Regiment in Italy in World War I
- American commander in Spain : Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- American daughter gone to war : on the front lines with an army nurse in Vietnam
- American diaries of World War II
- American hostage : a memoir of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq and the remarkable battle to win his release
- American sahib
- American sniper : [the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history]
- American sniper : the autobiography of the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history
- American warrior : a combat memoir of Vietnam
- American warrior : the true story of a legendary Ranger
- Among warriors in Iraq : true grit, special ops, and raiding in Mosul and Fallujah
- An American for Lafayette : the diaries of E.C.C. Genet, Lafayette Escadrille
- An American town and the Vietnam War : stories of service from Stamford, Connecticut
- An accidental soldier : memoir of a Mestizo in Vietnam
- An airman's tail : the WWII diary of staff sergeant Floyd Arnold Turner
- An album of memories : personal histories from The greatest generation
- An album of memories : personal histories from the greatest generation
- An angel from hell : real life on the front lines
- An angel from hell : real life on the front lines
- An artist at war : the journal of John Gaitha Browning
- An engineer's diary of the Great War
- An eyewitness history of World War II
- And a hard rain fell : G.I.'s true story of the war in Vietnam
- And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps
- Angels in khaki
- Angels of mercy : the Army nurses of World War II
- Another civilian soldier
- Another river, another town : a teenage tank gunner comes of age in combat - 1945
- Apache Warrior
- Apocalypse undone : my survival of Japanese imprisonment during World War II
- Argonne days in World War I
- Argonne days in World War I
- Armageddon revisited : a World War I journal
- Artist at war,
- At the front in a flivver
- Attention fool! : kitoski, bakaro
- Attention fool! : kitoski, bakaro
- Awakening victory : how Iraqi tribes and American troops reclaimed Al Anbar Province and defeated Al Qaeda in Iraq
- Baa baa Black Sheep
- Baa baa Black Sheep
- Baa baa Black Sheep,
- Babylon by bus, or, The true story of two friends who gave up their valuable franchise selling Yankees suck t-shirts at Fenway to find meaning and adventure in Iraq, where they became employed by the Occupation in jobs for which they lacked qualification and witnessed much that amazed and disturbed them
- Back in action : an American soldier's story of courage, faith, and fortitude
- Back in the fight : the explosive memoir of a special operator who never gave up
- Bad Voodoo's war
- Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq
- Baghdad express : a Gulf War memoir
- Basher five-two : the true story of F-16 fighter pilot Captain Scott O'Grady
- Bat bomb : World War II's other secret weapon
- Bataan and beyond : memories of an American P.O.W.
- Batfish, the champion "submarine-killer" submarine of World War II
- Battle ground, Southwest Pacific
- Battle ready : memoir of a SEAL warrior medic
- Battle stations : a grizzly from the coral sea, Peleliu landing
- Battleground Pacific : a Marine rifleman's combat odyssey in K/3/5
- Before honor
- Behind Japanese lines : an American guerilla in the Philippines
- Behind enemy lines : a young pilot's story
- Behind the lines : the oral history of Special Operations in World War II
- Berlin diary; : the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941
- Between tedium and terror : a soldier's World War II diary, 1943-45
- Between the lines : the story of a German boy raised in Nazi times who returns to his homeland as an American soldier in WWII--passionately fighting for the ideals of his adopted country while suffering over what his fatherland had become
- Beyond band of brothers : [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters]
- Beyond band of brothers : the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters
- Beyond the Rhine : a Screaming Eagle in Germany
- Birds from hell : history of the B-29
- Black Cat 2-1 : the true story of a Vietnam helicopter pilot and his crew
- Blind date with Mars,
- Blinded by the sunlight : emerging from the prison of Saddam's Iraq
- Blood and vengeance : one family's story of the war in Bosnia
- Blood brothers : among the soldiers of Ward 57
- Blood makes the grass grow green : a year in the desert with team America
- Blood on German snow : an African American artilleryman in World War II and beyond
- Blood stripes : the grunt's view of the war in Iraq
- Blood, sweat, & fears : six campaigns across Europe : air offensive Europe, Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe
- Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War
- Bloody roads to Germany : at Huertgen Forest and the Bulge : an American soldier's courageous story of World War II
- Born in battle; : round the world adventures of the 513th Bombardment Squadron,
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Bounty hunter 4/3 : my life in combat from Marine Scout Sniper to MARSOC
- Brandy miracle
- Brave men
- Brave men
- Brave men, gentle heroes : American fathers and sons in World War II and Vietnam
- Breaking the code : a father's secret, a daughter's journey, and the question that changed everything
- Breathing the fire : fighting to report--and survive--the war in Iraq
- Brennan's War : Vietnam 1965-69
- Bridge to the sun
- Bringing it all back home : an oral history of New York City's Vietnam Veterans
- Brothers beyond blood : a battalion surgeon in the South Pacific
- Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story
- Brothers in war
- Burma surgeon returns
- By duty bound : survival and redemption in a time of war
- By eastern windows; : the story of a battle of souls and minds in the prison camps of Sumatra
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Cabanatuan, Japanese death camp : a survivors story
- Caged eagles : downed American fighter pilots, 1940-1945/
- Call of duty : a Montana girl in World War II
- Call of duty : a Montana girl in World War II
- Camera boy : an Army journalist's war in Iraq
- Can do! : the story of the Seabees
- Captive warriors : a Vietnam POW's story
- Captured : an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam
- Carnage & courage : a memoir of FDR, the Kennedys, and World War II
- Carnivore : a memoir by one of the deadliest American soldiers of all time
- Chained eagle
- Chameleon days : an American boyhood in Ethiopia
- Chasing ghosts : a soldier's fight for America from Baghdad to Washington
- Chasing ghosts : failures and facades in Iraq : a soldier's perspective
- Chechnya diary : a war correspondent's story of surviving the war in Chechnya
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Chickenhawk
- Chickenhawk
- Chickenhawk
- Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67
- Chief of station, Congo : a memoir of 1960-67
- Christmas at the ranch
- Citizen soldier : real people. real war
- Civilianized : a young veteran's memoir
- Civilians must fight;
- Classics : U.S. aircraft of World War II
- Clear the bridge! : The war patrols of the U.S.S. Tang
- Code of honor
- Code talker
- Collateral damage : America's war against Iraqi civilians
- Collective heart : Texans in World War II
- Comanche six : company commander, Vietnam
- Combat cameraman
- Combat chaplain : a thirty-year Vietnam battle
- Combat chaplain : a thirty-year Vietnam battle
- Combat crew
- Combat crew : a true story of flying and fighting in World War II
- Combat diary, The marines of Lima company
- Combat letters home : a U.S. Marine Corps officer's World War II letters from Peleliu, Okinawa and North China, September 1944 to December 1945
- Combat recon : my year with the ARVN
- Combat reporter : Don Whitehead's World War II diary and memoirs
- Combat reporter : Don Whitehead's World War II diary and memoirs
- Combat swimmer : memoir of a Navy SEAL
- Comrades : tales of a brigadista in the Spanish Civil War
- Consequence : a memoir
- Consequence : a memoir
- Conversations with Americans
- Corpsmen : letters from Korea
- Corregidor oasis of hope : 50th anniversary, Bataan--Corregidor
- Countdown!
- Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles : America's first black paratroopers
- Covert warrior : fighting the CIA's secret war in Southeast Asia and China, 1965-1967 : the Vietnam War memoir of Warner Smith
- Crisis in the Pacific : the battles for the Philippine Islands by the men who fought them
- Crosses in the wind,
- Crossing Mandelbaum Gate : coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978
- Crossing the Sauer : a memoir of World War II
- Crossing the line : a bluejacket's World War II odyssey
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crossroads Marseilles, 1940
- Cruise of the Lanikai : incitement to war
- Currahee!
- D day
- Dachau 29 April 1945 : the Rainbow liberation memoirs
- Dagger 22 : U.S. Marine Corps special operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan
- Dalton Trumbo's Johnny got his gun
- Damned to glory,
- Danger close : my epic journey as a combat helicopter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Danger forward : the story of the First Division in World War II, United States Army, World War II,
- Dauntless : a history of the 99th Infantry Division
- Dauntless helldivers : a dive-bomber pilot's epic story of the carrier battles
- David & Lee Roy : a Vietnam story
- Days of decision : an oral history of conscientious objectors in the military during the Vietnam war
- Days of valor : an inside account of the bloodiest six months of the Vietnam War
- Days of valor : an inside account of the bloodiest six months of the Vietnam War
- Dead reckoning : experiences of a World War II fighter pilot
- Deadline delayed,
- Deadly blue : battle stories of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations command
- Deadly magic : a personal account of communication intelligence in World War II in the Pacific
- Deadly sky : the American combat airman in World War II
- Dear America : letters home from Vietnam
- Dear America : letters home from Vietnam
- Dear Donald, Dear Bennett : the wartime correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer
- Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference
- Dear mom : a sniper's Vietnam
- Dearest Letty : the World War II love letters of Sgt. Leland Duvall
- Dearest Virginia : love letters from a cavalry officer in the South Pacific
- Dearest ones : a true World War II love story
- Dearest ones : a true World War II love story
- Death march : the survivors of Bataan
- Death traps : the survival of an American armored division in World War II
- Decent interval : an insider's account of Saigon's indecent end
- Defending Baltimore against enemy attack : a boyhood year during World War II
- Descending from the clouds : a memoir of combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division
- Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family
- Devil dogs chronicle : voices of the 4th Marine Brigade in World War I
- Dick Winters: "Hang tough" : honoring leadership on D-Day
- Dispatches
- Do well or die : memoirs of a WWII mountina trooper
- Dog tags yapping : the World War II letters of a combat GI
- Don't cry, it's only thunder
- Don't you know there's a war on?
- Doonesbury.com's The sandbox : dispatches from troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Doonesbury.com's The sandbox : dispatches from troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Double-edged secrets : U.S. naval intelligence operations in the Pacific during World War II
- Doughboy war : the American Expeditionary Force in World War I
- Dress rehearsal; : the story of Dieppe
- Dust to dust : a memoir
- Duty : memoirs of a Secretary at war
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Duty : memoirs of a secretary at war
- Eagles of mercy : the compelling story of two airborne medics and their heroic acts during D-day
- Earned in blood : my journey from Old-Breed Marine to the most dangerous job in America
- Easy Company soldier : the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
- Easy target : the long, strange trip of a scout pilot in Vietnam
- Echoes of the Mekong
- Edith's war : writings of a Red Cross worker and lifelong champion of social justice
- Eight lives down : the story of the world's most dangerous job in the world's most dangerous place
- Eisenhower was my boss;
- Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany
- End of a Berlin diary
- Enduring what cannot be endured : memoir of a woman medical aide in the Philippines in World War II
- Ernie Pyle in England
- Escape from Hitler's Europe : an American airman behind enemy lines
- Escape with honor : my last hours in Vietnam
- Everything we had : an oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three American soldiers who fought it
- Exchange ship,
- Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
- Eyewitness D-Day : firsthand accounts from the landing at Normandy to the liberation of Paris
- Eyewitness Korea : the experience of British and American soldiers in the Korean War 1950-1953
- Eyewitness Vietnam : firsthand accounts from Operation Rolling Thunder to the fall of Saigon
- Eyewitness to World War II : unforgettable stories and photographs from history's greatest conflict
- Eyewitness to World War II : unforgettable stories from history's greatest conflict
- F Company, 347th Infantry Regiment, 1942-1945
- Facing the wall : Americans at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Faith under fire : an Army chaplain's memoir
- Faithful warriors : a combat marine remembers the Pacific War
- Falcon's cry : a Desert Storm memoir
- Father, soldier, son : memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam
- Fear up harsh : an Army interrogator's dark journey through Iraq
- Fighter pilot : the first American ace of World War II
- Fighting blind : a Green Beret's story of extraordinary courage
- Fighting with the Filthy Thirteen : the World War II story of Jack Womer, Ranger and paratrooper
- Final assault on the Rising Sun : combat diaries of B-29 air crews over Japan
- Finding Granddad's war
- Firebirds : the best first-person account of helicopter combat in Vietnam ever written
- First across the Rhine : the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany
- First in : an insider's account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan
- First in : an insider's account of how the CIA spearheaded the war on terror in Afghanistan
- First in, last out : an American paratrooper in Vietnam with the 101st and Vietnamese Airborne
- Five years to freedom,
- Fixing hell : an army psychologist confronts Abu Ghraib
- Flashbacks : on returning to Vietnam
- Flights of passage : reflections of a World War II aviator
- Flyers of Barron Field : the wild and wooly early days of flying when World War I came to Texas
- Flying MacArthur to victory
- Flying MacArthur to victory
- Flying through midnight : a pilot's dramatic story of his secret missions over Laos during the Vietnam War
- Flying with the Fifteenth Air Force : a B-24 pilot's missions from Italy during World War II
- Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita
- Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita
- For God, country, and the thrill of it : Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II
- For love of country : the price of freedom
- For you, Lili Marlene : a memoir of World War II
- Forbidden diary : a record of wartime internment, 1941-1945
- Forgotten heroes of World War II : personal accounts of ordinary soldiers
- Forgotten under a tropical sun : war stories by American veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913
- Fox family World War II collection : MA 06-7 : register
- Fox two
- Foxtrot in Kandahar : a memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the inception of America's longest war
- Fragments of war : a marine's personal journey
- Francotirador
- Francotirador : la autobiograf?a del francotirador m?s letal en la historia de Estados Unidos de Am?rica
- Francotirador : la autobiografía del francotirador más letal en la historia de Estados Unidos de América
- From Anzio to the Alps : an American soldier's story
- From Baghdad to America : life lessons from a dog named Lava
- From Baghdad, with love : a Marine, the war, and a dog named Lava
- From foxholes and flight decks : letters home from World War II : the remarkable story of Americans at war as revealed in their personal correspondence
- From the Hudson to the Yalu : West Point '49 in the Korean War
- From the cockpit : coming of age in the Korean War
- From the pilot factory, 1942
- Fugitives : evading and escaping the Japanese
- Full battle rattle : my story as the longest-serving special forces A-Team soldier in American history
- G Company's war : two personal accounts of the campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945
- G.I. jive : an army bandsman in World War II