Books About War on The Point with Mindy Todd
This morning on The Point with Mindy Todd we were discussing books on war. Thanks to so many of you who called or e-mailed us with your listener suggestions!
Mindy’s Picks
Bunker Hill: a city a siege, a revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
War by Sebastian Junger
Listener Picks
Six Frigates: the epic history of the founding of the U. S. Navy by Ian W. Toll
The Last of the Doughboys: the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War by Richard Rubin
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Back to the Front: an accidental historian walks the trenches of World War I by Stephen O’Shea
Laurie Lee Triology:
Cider With Rosie
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
A Moment of War: a memoir of the Spanish Civil War
Jill’s Picks
The Invasion From Mars: a study in the psychology of panic by Hadley Cantril
Moment of Battle: the twenty clashes that changed the world by James Lacey and Williamson Murray
Agent Garbo: the brilliant, eccentric secret agent who tricked Hitler and saved D-Day by Stephan Talty
Nostalgia by Dennis McFarland
Johnny Tremain: a novel for old & young by Esther Forbes
Cry Out: poets protest the war
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Children’s Books
Aliens Are Coming!: the true account of the 1938 war of the worlds radio broadcast By Meghan Mccarthy
Henry and the Cannons: and extraordinary true story of the American Revolution by Don Brown
Dogs on Duty: soldiers’ best friends on the battlefield and beyond by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Why War is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker, illustrated by Stefano Vitale
Melanie’s Picks
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
What If? The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been edited by Robert Cowley
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin
Straight and True: A Select History of the Arrow by Hugh D.H. Soar
The Amazing Weapons That Never Were by Gregory Benford
The Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Janis Herbert
Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq by Louis A. DiMarco
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield by Jeremy Scahill
Masters of the Battlefield: Great Commanders from the Classical Age to the Napoleonic Era by Paul K. Davis
Profiles One Event, Six Bios: The Vietnam War (Scholastic)
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding