American Legion Post 162 generously donated funds toward the purchase of books as a supplement to our budget. Library staff select titles that focus on American history, military history, books that emphasize service to others, and biographies of heroic individuals who have contributed to our society. These books are identified with an American Legion Post 162 label.

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2024 Books

Lessons in Liberty (Adams)
Skies of Thunder (Alexander)
Ike's Road Trip (Black)
Not Too Late (Bounds)
Fifty-three Days on Starvation Island (Bruning)
The Making of a Leader (Bunting)
Making the Presidency (Chervinsky)
Under His Wings (Compagno)
The Army That Never Was (Downing)
I Never Did Like Politics (Golway)
Challenger (Higginbotham)
The Call to Serve (Meacham)
Beyond the Call of Duty (Moore)
Unvanquished (ODonnell)
Mission Without Borders (Robichaux)
Pursuit of Happiness (Rosen)
I Have Your Back (Sileo)
No Bullet Got Me Yet (Stansifer)
Great Abolitionist (Sumner Bio)
Hard Truths (Waltz)

2023 Books

Valiant Women
Fierce Ambition
Ghosts of Honolulu
Conflict
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy
First to the Front
Road to Surrender
Lost at Sea

2022 Books

The Mosquito Bowl
Rebels at Sea
The Trials of Harry S. Truman
Uncertain Ground
Agent Josephine
Ways and Means
A Man of Iron
To Risk It All

2021 Books

Soldiers
To Rescue the Republic
Sacrifice
Our First Civil War
Lightning Down
They Called Us
Valcour
Blister Club
Island Infernos
The Hardest Place
Three Wise Men

2020 Books

A Short History of the Civil War
A Short History of World War II
The Kill Chain
The Race of Aces
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
How Ike Led
Ghost Flames
Modern Warriors
The Indomitable Florence Finch
Last Mission to Tokyo
The Iron Sea
Twilight of the Gods
Countdown 1945
Once a Warrior

2019 Books

The British Are Coming
Becoming a U.S. Citizen
Accidental Presidents
Sacred Duty
Brothers in Valor
Tin Cans and Greyhounds
2018/2019 ASVAB for Dummies
The First Wave
The Presidents
The League of Wives
Spearhead
The Polar Bear Expedition
A Woman of No Importance
D-Day and Normandy
George Marshall
How to Read the Constitution and Why

2018 Books

Inheriting the War
A Tiger Among Us
In the Enemy's House
The Road Not Taken
We Few
The Indian World of George Washington
The Fighters
Founding Martyr
Barron's ASVAB
On Grand Strategy
Fight Like a Girl
Chasing the Demon
The Age of Eisenhower
On War and Writing
Atlas of World War II
Full Battle Rattle
Oceans Ventured
The Moralist
Army of None
Above and Beyond

2017 Books

Hue 1968 (Bowden)
His Father's Son (Brady)
A Rumor of War (Caputo)
My Fellow Soldiers (Carroll)
The Hello Girls (Hoffman)
The Final Mission of Extortion 17 (Darack)
MacArthur's Spies (Eisner)
Mission Transition (Farley)
Sons and Soldiers (Henderson)
The Great Rescue (Hernon)
Autumn of the Black Snake (Hogeland)
Never Call Me a Hero (Jack)
Patrick Henry (Kukla)
The American Spirit (McCullough)
President McKinley (Merry)
Code Girls (Mundy)
Lincoln's Lieutenants (Sears)
The Odyssey of Echo Company (Stanton)
Drone Warrior (Velicovich)
The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn (Watson)
Nine Days in May (Wilkins)
Blood and Fears (Wilson)
Enduring Vietnam (Wright)
The Ragged Edge (Zacchea)

Earlier Books

Storm Over Leyte (Prados 2016)
American Ulysses (White 2016)
Korean War (Perritano 2010)
World War II and the Cold War, 1940-1960 (2009)
D-Day Landings (Platt 2004)