Celebrating National Veterans and Military Families Month!

Updated October 24, 2025
S
St. Lucie County Library System
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
For love of country : what our veterans can teach us about citizenship, heroism, and sacrifice
Schultz, Howard.
Paper Book
A celebration of the extraordinary courage, dedication, and sacrifice of this generation of American veterans on the battlefield and their equally valuable contributions on the home front. Because so few of us now serve in the military, our men and women in uniform have become strangers...
The League of Wives the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. government to bring their husbands home
Lee, Heath Hardage
Paper Book
"With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story -- a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge...
The guardian
Hood, Joshua
Paper Book
Half American the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad
Delmont, Matthew F.
Paper Book
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in...
Soldiers don't go mad a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Glass, Charles, 1951- author.
Paper Book
The #1 Amazon UK bestseller in War Poetry A brilliant and poignant history of the friendship between two great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, alongside a narrative investigation of the origins of PTSD and the literary response to World War I From the...
Sacred duty a soldier's tour at Arlington National Cemetery
Cotton, Tom
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A moving, reverent history--a tribute, really--to 'The Old Guard' ... An ode to excellence and caring in service to the nation. It is an inspiring read for every American." -- ROBERT M. GATES An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National...
Switchboard soldiers a novel
Chiaverini, Jennifer
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of the great untold stories of World War I--the women of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, who broke down gender barriers in the military and battled a pandemic as they helped lead the...
The wives a memoir
Gorrindo, Simone
Paper Book
"[Simone] Gorrindo's prose is inviting and fluid, and her storytelling is intimate and vivid...[an] engaging, evocative memoir." --The New York Times Book Review "A hopeful, unifying memoir." --People This profoundly intimate memoir about...

Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.