The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien
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Memory, to start.
Granular, mundane, afraid.
War, outside, within.
The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
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Loveable, with flaws
Characters pull you right in
Left empty, yet full
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
by Nick Lloyd
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Vivid: Builds upon
The tale told by greats: Tuchman,
Then Keegan, now, Lloyd.
The World Atlas of Whisky
by Dave Broom
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Everything whisky:
Distilleries ’round the world.
Plan your vacation!
The Zimmerman Telegram
by Barbara Tuchman
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Wilson: Neutral! Then…
Spies quietly break the code,
The Yanks go to war.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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Beautiful, tragic.
Race, gender, identity:
Timeless, enduring.
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
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Race: tech, time, and sleuth
Give chase, while a storm rages
Triumph, tragedy.
Tommy’s War
by Richard van Emden
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A war, in pictures.
Flesh and blood; lives, dreams, and hopes—
Time restored, preserved.
Tommy’s War: The Western Front in Soldiers’ Words and Photographs
by Richard van Emden
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A war, in pictures.
Flesh and blood; lives, dreams, and hopes—
Time restored, preserved.
Washington: A Life
by Ron Chernow
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A man, imperfect,
For a cause greater than self.
A nation is born.