A Soldier’s Story: 20 War Books Told by Those Who Were There
We’re honoring America’s heroes with books that reveal what it's like to be in war.
By
Sarah Mangiola | Updated Nov 1, 2021 | Published Nov 8, 2017
On Combat
By Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
On Killing
By Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
A Foot Soldier for Patton
By Michael C. Bilder
SOG Medic
By Joe Parnar and Robert Dumont
Bailout Over Normandy
By Ted Fahrenwald
I Am Soldier of Fortune
By Robert K. Brown
365 Days
By Ronald J. Glasser
We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young
By Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
This Kind of War
By T. R. Fehrenbach
High Noon of Empire
By B A 'Jimmy' James
A Civil War Captain and His Lady
By Gene Barr
Valor in Vietnam
By Allen B. Clark
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Goodbye Vietnam
By William Broyles
Letters from the Trenches
By Jacqueline Wadsworth
A Waterloo Hero
By Friedrich Lindau
Days of Valor
By Robert L. Tonsetic
Eyewitness to World War II
By Richard Tregaskis
In Pharaoh's Army
By Tobias Wolff
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Adventures in My Youth
By Armin Scheiderbauer
