Memoirs

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Memoirs

• Military, War

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Unlikely Warrior a Jewish Soldier in Hitlers
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

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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

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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

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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

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NO TURNING BACK ONE MANS 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

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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

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I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Howard E. Wasdin

• Abbreviated version of Seal Team Six for teen
  audience.
• 177 pages.

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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

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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

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

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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

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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
  JiveFarewell 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

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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
• 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

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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree a Memoir of a
Schindlers 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

• To call it the best book
• about Vietnam is to
• trivialize it.
• 356 pages