1. Memoirs
Military, War

2. Warrior: a Memoir by Theresa Larson
“Theresa Larson has lived multiple lives: At ten she was a caregiver to her dying mother. As a teenager and into her twenties, she was an all-star high school, college, & professional softball player. As a young adult, she was a fitness competition winner, a beauty pageant contestant, and model. And as a grown woman, she was a high- achieving lieutenant in the Marines, in charge of an entire platoon while deployed in Iraq. Meanwhile, Theresa was battling bulimia nervosa, which ultimately cut short her military service…” 272 pages
Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library

3. Consequence: a Memoir by Eric Fair
“Eric Fair grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants, nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. Consequence is Fair’s story, the story of a man who begins with a desire to serve and, through a winding series of choices, becomes an interrogator for a private contractor at Abu Ghraib during one of our nation’s darkest moments….By the time he leaves Iraq after that first deployent, Fair will have participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, diet manipulation, exposure and isolation.” 256 pages
Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library

4. American Wife: Love, War, Faith & Renewal by Taya Kyle
“The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose….Now she embraces a future…that will inspire every reader.” 334 pages
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library

5. Unlikely Warrior: a Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army by Georg Rauch
In wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. 324 pages

6. Code Name Pauline: memoirs of a World War II Special Agent by Pearl Cornioley
Pearl Witherington Cornioley joined the Special Operations Executive in 1943 and worked with the French Resistance as an undercover courier and later, under the code name “Pauline,” as a network leader of 3,500 men. She was instrumental in the carrying out of numerous acts of sabotage during WWII.
184 pages

7. Battle Ready by Mark Donald
Gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star & Purple Heart recipient. As a SEAL & combat medic, Mark serviced for almost 25 years in some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of battlefield, the reader experiences the unique life of an elite warrior-medic. 352 pages

8. Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior by Rorke Denver
Explaining the unique psychology behind the SEALs' legendary training program, a high-level SEAL officer reveals the modern techniques that transform a chosen few into lethal warriors and details how the SEALs' creative operations became front-and-centerin America's War on Terror. 290 pages

9. NO TURNING BACK: ONE MAN’S INSPIRING TRUE STORY OF COURAGE, DETERMINATION AND HOPE BY BRYAN ANDERSON
Anderson enlisted in the Army in He served 2 tours of duty in Iraq. In 2005, Bryan was injured by an IED that resulted in the loss of both legs and his left hand. He is one of the few triple amputees that have survived. This is his story. 235 pages

10. SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper by Howard Wasdin
SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers. Additional copies available at Voorheesville Public Library. 331 pages

11. I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Howard E. Wasdin
Abbreviated version of Seal Team Six for teen audience. 177 pages.

12. American Sniper by Chris Kyle
Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, "American Sniper" is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, whose record 255 confirmed kills make him the most deadly sniper in U.S. military history. 381 pages

13. No Easy Day: the Autobiography of a Navy Seal by Mark Owen
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. 316 pages

14. The Heart and the Fist: the Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens
309 pages

15. Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library
Until Tuesday: a Wounded Warrior & the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him by Luis Carlos Montalvan
Luis and Tuesday are two true American heroes. This powerful story is a testament to the courage of veterans both on and off the battlefield. 252 pages
Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library

16. Ghosts of War: the True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI by Ryan Smithson
Smithson experienced the events of 9/11 while in high school and responded by enlisting in the Army Reserve after graduation. 322 pages

17. Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive pages

18. Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James Houston
Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home & sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers & armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured cheerleaders, Boy Scouts, sock hops, baton twirling lessons & a dance band called the Jive…Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese-American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. 203 pages

19. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
This Holocaust memoir describes what happens to a Jewish girl who is 13 when the Nazis invade Hungary in She tells of a year of roundups, transports, selections, camps, torture, forced labor, and shootings, then of liberation and the return of a few. 224 pages

20. I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: a Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor by Laura Hillman
In 1942 Berlin, Hannelore, 16, bravely volunteers to be deported with her mother and two younger brothers to Poland. Of course, they are soon separated, and during the next three years Hannelore is moved through eight concentration camps. 241 pages

21. The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
 A remarkable memoir from Leon Leyson, one of the youngest children to survive the Holocaust on Oskar Schindler's list. Leon Leyson (born Leib Lezjon) was only ten years old when the Nazis invaded Poland and his family was forced to relocate to the Krakow ghetto. With incredible luck, perseverance, and grit, Leyson was able to survive the sadism of the Nazis, including that of the demonic Amon Goeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow.
231 pages

22. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke
“Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.” 276 pages
Available at the Voorheesville Public Library
YA 921 OPDYKE

23. BEYOND BAND OF BROTHERS: THE WAR MEMOIRS OF MAJOR DICK WINTERS BY DICK WINTERS
The commander of Easy Company provides a firsthand memoir of combat during World War II, describing the role of the “Band of Brothers” during the D-Day invasion, the march into Germany, and the liberation of an S.S. death camp. 304 pages

24. CODE TALKER: THE FIRST AND ONLY MEMOIR BY ONE OF THE ORIGINAL NAVAJO CODE TALKERS OF WORLD WAR ii BY CHESTER NEZ
The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of World War II. Although more than 400 Navajos served as top-secret code talkers, even those fighting should to shoulder with them were not told of their cover function. 310 pages

25. DISPATCHES BY MICHAEL HERR
Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. 260 pages

26. Home Before Morning: the Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
This incredible story, which plunges us immediately into the bloodiest aspects of the war, is also a suspenseful autobiography that will keep you chewing your fingernails to see if Van Devanter survives any of it at all. 331 pages

27. A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
“To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it.” 356 pages