FYI,
I know the books listed here are adult but you might have these in your personal collections and be willing to donate them or perhaps someone else in your family has a copy that they would be willing to donate.
Thanks! Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library
The State Library has received a request for donated books from a marine deployed on the naval aircraft carrier USS Peleliu with the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. The marines and sailors are participating in a professional reading program to increase their knowledge of U.S. military history. He is looking for the specific titles listed below.
The State Library will coordinate collecting and sending any books donated. If your library has extra copies of these titles and wishes to participate, please send them to the State Library by July 16.
Listed: 1. A Bell for Adano: By J. Hersey 2. A Message to Garcia: By E. Hubbard 3. Attacks!; By B.West 4. Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander\x92s War in Iraq By P.Mansoor 5. Band of Brothers: By S.E. Ambrose 6. Battle Leadership: By A.Von Schell 7. Battle Exhortation, The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership: By K.Yellin 8. Breakout: By M.Russ 9. First to Fight: An inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps By LtGen Krulak 10. Gates of Fire: By S. Pressfield 11. Imperial Grunts: By R.D. Kaplan 12. Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander\x92s Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery By Nick Popaditch and Mike Steere 13. On Combat: By D.Grossman 14. On Killing: By D.Grossman 15. Rifleman Dodd: By C.S Forester 16. The Art of War: By Sun Tzu 17. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War By D. Halberstam 18. The Face of Battle: By J.Keegan 19. This Kind of War: By T.R. Fehrenbach 20. The Last Stand of Fox Company: By B. Druru and T. Clavin 21. The Lions of Iwo Jima: By Maj. General F. Haynes and J. Warren 22. The Ugly American: By W. Burdick 23. The Village: By B. West 24. Tip of the Spear: By G.J. Michaels 25. Utmost Savagery: By J. Alexander 26. We Were Soldiers: By H. Moore 27. With the Old Breed: By E.B. Sledge
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