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Books & DVDs for Memorial Day

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by Katherine Decker, Head of Circulation, Lynnfield Public Library

May 27 is Memorial Day when we salute the fallen and give thanks to all those who have served our country. Here are some books and dvds to commemorate Memorial Day.

Nonfiction Books

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose

Book | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook | DVD

Paths of Dissent: soldiers speak out against America’s misguided wars edited by  Andrew Bacevich and Daniel A. Sjursen

Book

The Long Reckoning: a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam by Geroge Black

Book

The Hello Girls: America’s first women soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs

Book | eBook

Half American: the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad by Matthew Delmont

Book | eBook | eAudiobook

Soldiers don’t go mad : a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War by Charles Glass

Book | eBook

Soldier dogs : the untold story of America’s canine heroes by Maria Goodavage

Book

Fiction Books

Sisters in arms : a novel of the daring Black women who served during World War II by Kaia Alderson

Book | eBook | eAudiobook

The Road Ahead: fiction from the forever war edited by Adrian Bonenberger & Brian Castner

Book

The Long March Home : a World War II novel of the Pacific by Marcus Brotherton

Book | e-Book

Switchboard Soldiers: a novel by Jennifer Chiaverini

Book | CD Audiobook | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook

The River We Remember: a novel by William Kent Krueger

Book | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook

The Killer Angels: a novel by Michael Shaara

Book | CD Audiobook | eBook

DVDs

American Sniper

The Best Years of Our Lives

Black Hawk Down

The Great Escape

Jarhead

Letters from Iwo Jima

Red Tails

Restrepo

Saving Private Ryan

USS Indianapolis

We Were Soldiers