Esprit de Corps
"That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one colonel, two lieutenant colonels, two majors and officers as usual in other regiments, that they consist of an equal number of privates with...
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Memorial Day: A Day of Remembrance
luminaria_nps.jpgMemorial Day has a long history, reaching back to the end of the Civil War. On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered his army, and soldiers of the North and South went home to their...
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Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon
By Dhan Gopal MukerjiBeautiful Gay-Neck was raised in India and would be used to carry messages by a Bengal Regiment in France during World War I. This story of an animal's courage also reveals what...
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Jimmy Crack Corn
By Candice RansomA young boy and his father leave their northern Virginia farm in 1932 to march on Washington, seeking the bonus money veterans were promised after World War I.Reserve this title
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Summer Soldiers
By Susan Hart LindquistNot all wars are fought on battlefields. After his father goes off to France during the summer of 1918, eleven-year-old Joe takes on hard new responsibilities on his parents'...
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The Language of Doves
By Rosemary WellsOn her sixth birthday, Julietta's grandfather gives her one of his beautiful homing pigeons and tells her a story of his experience raising and training doves in Italy during the Great...
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The Night Flyers
By Elizabeth McDavid JonesIn 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small...
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War Horse
By Michael MurpurgoA horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.Reserve this...
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Mary Doria Russell "A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the...
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
By T. E. Lawrence“This is the exciting and highly literate story of the real Lawrence of Arabia, as written by Lawrence himself, who helped unify Arab factions against the occupying Turkish army, circa...
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Devil Dogs: Fighting Marines of World War I
By George B. ClarkA critical examination of battles fought by the Marines in World War I: Soissons, Blanc Mont, Meuse River, Verdun, and St. Mihiel. Clark, a Marine Corps historian, takes it a step...
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War Horse
By Michael MorpurgoJoey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master....
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A Farewell to Arms
By Ernest Hemingway[This book] is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. (From the catalog summary)Reserve this title
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Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed...
By Kai WrightBlacks have shouldered arms in defense of the U.S. since the Revolutionary War. This book portrays the military as the front line of the nation's race war as blacks, ambivalent about being...
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the...
By Gina Kolata"In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families...
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The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
There was more than one wide-scale genocide in the 20th century.read more
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For Veterans' Day: A 65th D-Day Anniversary Exhibition
On this day, we remember the sacrifice of soldiers in England, the United States, and France who fought and died in the Great War, the war to end all wars. While their noble goal is not yet realized,...
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Pvt. Hubert Wesselman, United States Army, American Expeditionary Force, 1918
“I was reading a book at the time and at 10.59 the guns all quit at once. It was to [sp] good to be true. I didn’t cheer as I cheered myself hoarse while at Souilly and it was a false report so I...
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Museum of Valor Exhibit and Reception
Michele BrownAudiobooksWorld War IMuseum of ValorLibraryPoint BlogA must-see for military history buffs is the exhibition staged at our Headquarters Library by the volunteers of the Museum of Valor....
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