Transcript Memoirs - PBworks

MEMOIRS
Grade 10
2013-2014
MILITARY, WAR
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
NO TURNING BACK: ONE MAN’S
INSPIRING TRUE STORY OF COURAGE,
DETERMINATION AND HOPE BY BRYAN
ANDERSON
Anderson enlisted in the
Army in 2001. 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
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
I AM A SEAL TEAM SIX WARRIOR BY
HOWARD E. WASDIN
Abbreviated version of Seal
Team Six for teen
audience.
177 pages.
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
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
THE HEART AND THE FIST: THE EDUCATION OF
A HUMANITARIAN, THE MAKING OF A NAVY
SEAL BY ERIC GREITENS
309 pages
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
This author will be visiting
Interlibrary Loan at the
the Voorheesville
Public
Voorheesville Public Library
Library this week!
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
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.
392 pages
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
I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS: GROWING
UP IN THE HOLOCAUST BY LIVIA BITTONJACKSON
This Holocaust memoir
describes what happens
to a Jewish girl who is
13 when the Nazis
invade Hungary in
1944. 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
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
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
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
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
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 topsecret code talkers, even
those fighting should to
shoulder with them were
not told of their cover
function.
310 pages
DISPATCHES BY MICHAEL HERR
Written on the front lines in
Vietnam, Dispatches became an
immediate classic of war
reportage when it was
published in 1977. 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
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
A RUMOR OF WAR BY PHILIP CAPUTO
“To call it the best book
about Vietnam is to
trivialize it.”
356 pages