Book Reviews

Title: Finding My Way: A Teen's Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has Experienced Trauma
Author: Michelle D. Sherman and DeAnne Sherman
Genre: Children's, Young Adult
Reviewer: E. Franklin Evans

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1592981178

Finding My Way: A Teen's Guide to Living with a Parent Who Has Experienced Trauma is a unique, award-winning three-part book that honestly and gently addresses key issues in dealing with a parent who has experienced trauma. An important resource for anyone working with teens, this interactive book includes clear information and opportunities for self-expression.

Title: Firefight on Vietnam Brown Water
Author: Lynn Salsi
Genre: Children, Young Adult, History
Reviewer: Rob Ballister

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0970652771

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Title: Uncommon Valor: The Medal of Honor and the Six Warriors Who Earned It in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: Dwight Jon Zimmerman, John Gresham
Genre: Non-Fiction, History
Reviewer: Bill McDonald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B0051BNXPW

Since the Vietnam War ended in 1973 and prior to September 2010, the Medal of Honor, our nation's highest award for valor, has been presented to only eight men for their actions "above and beyond the call of duty." Six of the eight were young men who had fought in the current war in Iraq, Afghanistan, or both. All of these medals were awarded posthumously, as all six had made the choice to give their lives so that their comrades might live.

Uncommon Valor answers the searing question of who these six young warriors were, and dramatically details how they found themselves in life-or-death situations, and why they responded as they did. Also, for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive history of the Medal of Honor itself--one marred by controversies, scandals, and theft.

Using an extraordinary range of sources, including interviews with family members and friends, teammates and superiors in the military, personal letters, blogs posted within hours of events, personal and official videos, and newly declassified documents, Uncommon Valor is a compelling and important work that recounts incredible acts of heroism and lays bare the ultimate sacrifice of our bravest warriors.

Title: THE VIETNAM WAR: A Graphic History
Author: Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Wayne Vansant
Genre: Artistic, Graphical
Reviewer: Rob Ballister

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0809094959/a>

The first-ever account of the entire Vietnam War in the graphic history format form its buildup and expansion in the early 1960s, the evacuation of Saigon in 1975, and the reconciliation and remembrance movement decades later that resulted in the construction of "The Wall"--the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In addition to the conflict in Vietnam, it recounts the many tumultuous events in the United States from the halls of power in Washington, D.C. to the streets of cities across the nation that threatened to tear the society apart. An even-balanced and surprisingly comprehensive account in a ground-breaking format of a traumatic period of our history that resonates to today..

Title: Shore Duty: A Year in Vietnam's Junk Force
Author: Stewart Harris
Genre: Military, Navy
Reviewer: Hodge Wood

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): ISBN / EAN

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