Digital Book Displays

November 11,2020 | Maria Firkaly

Veterans Day honors those who have served our country in military service during wartime and peace. Not to be confused with Memorial Day which honors those who have died while in military service. While I am focusing on a very short list of Veteran Authors for this display, I encourage you to do a search for “Veteran Authors”. You may find something that interests you. Remember the humanity of our veterans. They each have their own story tell.

To all veterans, thank you for your service.

 

Matt Gallagher:

Empire City

Thirty years after its great triumph in Vietnam, the United States has again become mired in an endless foreign war overseas. Stories of super soldiers known as the Volunteers tuck in little American boys and girls every night. Yet domestic politics are aflame. Violent protests erupt throughout the nation; an ex-military watchdog group clashes with police while radical terrorists threaten to expose government experiments within the veteran rehabilitation colonies. Read more ..

 

 

Youngblood: A Novel

The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly-minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it’s happening – through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on …more

 

 

 

 

 

Ron Capps:

Seriously Not Alright: Five Wars in Ten Years

For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and cul …more

 

 

 

Kevin Powers:

A Shout in the Ruins

Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980’s, A Shout in the Ruins examines the fates of a diverse cast of characters connected to Beauvais Plantation in Chesterfi …more

 

 

 

 

The Yellow Birds: A Novel

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.

“The war tried to kill us in the spring,” begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eight …more

 

 

 

Terminal Lance: The White Donkey

The surreal journey of a United States Marine to and from Iraq. Written and Illustrated by Terminal Lance creator, infantry Marine and Iraq veteran Maximilian Uriarte.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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