We Remember: Veteran's Day Picks

General
H is for Honor: a Military Family Alphabet by Devin Scillian
Hallowed grounds: America's overseas military cemeteries
Hero Dad by Melinda Hardin

World War I (and slightly after)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A war memoir: the 337th Field Hospital in northern Russia, 1918-1919 by Godfrey J. Anderson
My dear I wanted to tell you by Louisa Young
Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter R. Pouncey

World War II
At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prange
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The Candy Bombers: The untold story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s finest hour by Andrei Cherny
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen Ambrose
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernières
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
From Here to Eternity by James Jones.
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone by James Brady
The Monuments Men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
No Ordinary Joes: The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life by Larry Colton
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
The Pacific
Pennies in a Jar by Dori Chaconas
A Question of Honor, the Koscivszko Squadron: forgotten heroes of World War II by Lynne Olson & Stanley Cloud
 The Thin Red Line by James Jones
 Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth Norman

Korean War
The Bridges at Toko-ri by James A. Michener
The Hunters by James Salter
M.A.S.H.
Retreat, Hell! by W. E. B. Griffin
Taps by Willie Morris

Vietnam War
Aztlan and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War by George Mariscal
Broken bodies Shattered Minds: A Medical Odyssey from Vietnam to Afghanistan by Ronald J. Glasser
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Finding Jack by Gareth Crocker
Grizzly Years: In search of the American wilderness by Doug Peacock
 If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
A Journal for Jordan by Dana Canedy
K-9 Soldiers: Vietnam and After by Paul B. Morgan
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Wall by Eve Bunting
We Were Soldiers Once – and Young by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty by Ellen Emerson White

Persian Gulf 1991 up to 9/11
The Art of Uncontrolled Flight by Kim Ponders
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden.

2001- (Afghan War)
Horse Soldiers: the extraordinary story of a band of U.S. soldiers who rode to victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton
The Mullah’s Storm by Thomas W. Young
Where Men Win Glory: The odyssey of Pat Tillman by Jon Krakauer

2003- (Iraq War)
Ghosts of War by Ryan Smithson
I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen—My Journey Home by Shoshana Johnson
The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict
Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick
The Sandbox by David Zimmerman
Sand Queen by Helen Benedict.
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
They Fought For Each Other: The triumph and tragedy of the hardest hit unit in Iraq by Kelly Kennedy
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
Wiser in Battle: Soldier's Story by Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez