Our last post centered around fiction–i.e., escape literature–that a select group of U.S. veterans reported to us as books they read to pass time. This post focuses on a list of nonfiction books that these same veterans engulfed as they awaited deployment and prepared for foreign battle. One could only hope that these full-length works helped them better cope with the grim realities they were about to face.
Helmet for My Pillow, Robert Leckie
Tunnels of Cu Chi, Tom Mangold and John Penycate
Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose
To Hell and Back, Audie Murphy
People Other than Grunts, Myles C. Page
God in the Foxhole, Charles W. Sasser
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Dave Grossman
Under a War-Torn Sky, L.M. Elliott
Photo by Kenny Loule
