NAVAJO CODE TALKERS
by Nathan Aaseng
Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.

IN THE COMPANY OF SOLDIERS: A CHRONICLE OF COMBAT
by Rick Atkinson
For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat.

A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER
by Ishmael Beah
This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. How does one become a killer? How does one stop?

BLACK HAWK DOWN: A STORY OF MODERN WAR
by Mark Bowden
Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces - and puts you in the middle of the most intense firefight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam War.

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS: HEROES OF IWO JIMA
by James Bradley with Ron Powers
The unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history: the raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima.

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE: AN INDIAN HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST
by Dee Brown
Battle by battle, how the West was lost.

POSTCARDS FROM NO MAN'S LAND: A NOVEL
by Aidan Chambers
Told in dual narratives, this book takes the reader on a memorable voyage of discovery in a foreign city in the midst of war.

MY BROTHER SAM IS DEAD
by James Lincoln Collier
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

RED BADGE OF COURAGE
by Stephen Crane
Young Civil War soldier Henry Fielding endures the nightmare of battle as he comes to grips with his fears and feelings of cowardice.

DEAR AMERICA: LETTERS HOME FROM VIETNAM
edited by Bernard Edelman
Witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served there.

SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER
by Bette Greene
Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.

THE FIGHTER
by Jean-Jacques Greif
Moshe Wisniak, a poor Polish Jew, uses his physical strength and cleverness, plus luck, to help him survive the horrors he is subjected to in the concentration camps of World War II. Based on the life of Moshè Garbarz.

SOLDIER BOYS
by Dean Hughes
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.

THE PASSAGE
by James Killgore
Fifteen-year-old Mississippi schoolboy Sam Wood learns about honor, courage and friendship while serving on a Confederate ironclad gunboat, the CSS Arkansas, in the early days of the Civil War.

FAX FROM SARAJEVO: A STORY OF SURVIVAL
by Joe Kubert
Trapped in his home during the sieges in Sarajevo, Ervin Rustemagic communicated to the world through his fax machine.

GONE WITH THE WIND
by Margaret Mitchell
A monumental classic considered by many to be not only the greatest love story ever written, but also the greatest Civil War saga.

FALLEN ANGELS
by Walter Dean Myers
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

THE JOURNAL OF SCOTT PENDLETON COLLINS: A WORLD WAR II SOLIDER
by Walter Dean Myers
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and subsequent battles to liberate France.

LEFT FOR DEAD: A YOUNG MAN'S SEARCH FOR JUSTICE FOR THE USS INDIANAPOLIS
by Peter Nelson
Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: A WORK OF FICTION
by Tim O'Brien
Each of these 22 tales relate the exploits and personalities of a fictional platoon of American soldiers in Vietnam.

IN MY HANDS: MEMORIES OF A HOLOCAUST RESCUER
by Irene Gut Opdyke
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.

SHOOTING THE MOON
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.

WHEN MY NAME WAS KEOKO
by Linda Sue Park
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.

SOLDIER'S HEART: A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR
by Gary Paulsen
Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.

THE FINAL JOURNEY
by Gudrun Pausewang
During World War II, eleven-year-old Alice, whose life has been sheltered and comfortable, discovers some important things about herself and the people she meets when she and her grandfather board a train and begin an increasingly intolerable journey to an unknown destination.

TRAITOR
by Gudrun Pausewang
During the closing months of World War II, a fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious consequences if she does so.

ON THE WINGS OF HEROES
by Richard Peck
A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes - his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
by Erich Maria Remarque
Through the eyes and mind of a German private, the reader shares life on the battlefield during World War I.

COME JUNETEENTH
by Ann Rinaldi
Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free.

SAFE AREA GORAZDE: THE WAR IN EASTERN BOSNIA 1992-95
by Joe Sacco
The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995. A personal experience.

SONG OF THE SPARROW
by Lisa Ann Sandell
In fifth-century Britain, nine years after the destruction of their home on the island of Shalott brings her to live with her father and brothers in the military encampments of Arthur's army, seventeen-year-old Elaine describes her changing perceptions of war and the people around her as she becomes increasingly involved in the bitter struggle against the invading Saxons.

USEFUL FOOLS
by C.A. Schmidt
A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor village children, becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb the clinic, killing his mother and throwing his family into turmoil.

THE FORESHADOWING
by Marcus Sedgwick
Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

MAUS: A SURVIVOR'S TALE
by Art Spiegelman
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.

RED MOON AT SHARPSBURG: A NOVEL
by Rosemary Wells
As the Civil War breaks out, India, a young Southern girl, summons her sharp intelligence and the courage she didn't know she had to survive the war that threatens to destroy her family, her Virginia home, and the only life she has ever known.

SOLDIER X
by Don Wulffson
In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.

THE GADGET
by Paul Zindel
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.