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Memoirs

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

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Memoirs

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  1. Memoirs Grade 10 2013-2014

  2. Military, War

  3. 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

  4. 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 Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library

  5. 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

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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by LiviaBitton-Jackson 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

  15. 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

  16. 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 LeibLezjon) 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 AmonGoeth, commandant of Plaszow, the concentration camp outside Krakow. 231 pages

  17. 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

  18. 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 Interlibrary Loan at the Voorheesville Public Library

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

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