Fallen Heroes

After finishing high school, aspiring writer Richard Perry does not have the money for college, so he decides to enlist in the army and ends up fighting for his life in Vietnam.

Based on the true story of Navajo code talkers, this novel recounts the exploits of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo soldier in World War II. Ned's language skills prove to be invaluable as the Americans work to send secret messages to help them in their fight.

Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the Civil War. After fleeing from battle, he'll do anything for a second chance to prove his bravery.

A series of linked stories explores the lifelong effects of trauma on a platoon of soldiers during and after the Vietnam War.

A Jewish teenager joins the resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II.

Translated by A.W. Wheen, Remarque's masterpiece details the experiences of German soldiers during World War I.

Loosely based on the author, the narrator sets out to write a book about his experiences during World War II, but ends up telling about Billy Pilgrim, a soldier who gets "unstuck in time" and travels throughout moments of his life both on Earth and the planet Tralfamadore.

Jethro Creighton lives on a farm in southern Illinois when the Civil War begins. As he comes of age, the war impacts his family in ways he never could have imagined.

Based on true events, this graphic novel tells the harrowing story of a boy forced to be a child soldier in Uganda.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the four turbulent days of the Battle of Gettysburg, a decisive moment in the American Civil War.

Set during World War II, this novel tells the story of a pilot who attempts to find his way home after his plane is shot down.

In the aftermath of World War II, two families come to terms with their involvement in the manufacture of faulty airplane parts that caused the deaths of many soldiers.

Set during World War II, this historical novel tells the story of Julie, a British spy, and Maddie, a pilot. When the friends' plane goes down, Julie must fight to survive in Nazi-occupied France.

During World War II, thirteen-year-old Michael and his family infiltrate Nazi organizations to help the Allies defeat Hitler.

When war breaks out, Daisy and her cousins find themselves isolated at a farm in the English countryside. Their bond becomes unbreakable, but nothing can stop the terrible reality of the war from seeping in.

In 1967, the Republic of Biafra declared independence from Nigeria, leading to civil war. This novel traces the lives of several characters who get caught up in turmoil of the Biafran War.

Sisters Frankie and Toni struggle to survive on their own in the shadow of World War II.

During the Hundred Years' War, King Henry V decides to invade France.

Based on a true story, this novel tells the story of a boy who survived imprisonment in multiple Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Based on a true story, this novel follows an eleven-year-old Iraqi boy and his family as they endure turmoil and violence during the 1991 Gulf War.

Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who flees the Nazi occupation of Paris. Werner Pfennig is a young orphan living in a German mining town. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, their lives intertwine in unexpected ways as they try to survive the havoc of war.

During World War II, ten-year-old Ada and her brother are sent from London to the countryside, where Ada experiences freedom and kindness for the first time.

After being liberated from a Nazi concentration camp, a teenager embarks on a quest to find her brother.

This classic novel explores the lives and loves of American and British expatriates in the aftermath of World War I.

A horse named Joey fights on the battlefield during World War I — but longs to reunite with the boy who raised him.

In this historical novel-in-verse, German teenager Sophie Scholl joins a secret resistance group called the White Rose in order to oppose the Nazi regime.

As World War II rages, Hanneke is hired to find a Jewish teenager who disappeared from the house in which she was hiding. In the course of her search, Hanneke is drawn into the Dutch resistance movement secretly fighting the Nazis.

In this historical novel set during the American Revolution, Tim Meeker must decide whether he should do as his father says and remain loyal to the British king or join his brother among the rebels.

During the Revolutionary War, a twelve-year-old girl works as a spy and identifies a traitor to the American cause.

Based on a real-life events, this novel tells the story of Dita Kraus, who secretly ran a small lending library while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.

After World War II, a twelve-year-old boy befriends an African-American veteran — and begins to recognize prejudice and injustice in his hometown.

During World War II, a Japanese-American boy must rely on his baseball teammates when his father and grandfather are arrested.

Set in Spain during the 1950s, this novel tells the story of how Daniel, an eighteen-year-old American tourist, falls in love with a local girl, Ana, who lost her family during the Spanish Civil War.

Based on a true World War II story, this novel details how, as a teenager, Stefania Podgórska managed to take care of her younger sister, while hiding and supporting Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.

In 1989 Romania, with the country controlled by a dictator, seventeen-year-old aspiring writer Cristian Florescu dreams of freedom, especially when he is blackmailed by the secret police into informing on the family of an American diplomat.

As a Jewish teenager in German-occupied Romania during World War II, Frederieke Teitler struggles with the sacrifices she makes in order to survive.

This fictionalized version of the experiences of the author's family focuses on four nameless Japanese American characters during World War II, when they were forced to relocate to internment camps.

When war breaks out in Syria, eighteen-year-old pharmacy student Salama Kassab finds herself in a hospital tending to the wounded and struggling with visions of a life that might have been.

The daughter of Jewish circus performers, fifteen-year-old Lillia Kaczka must flee 1940 German-occupied Warsaw and help her family survive in war-torn Shanghai.

This historical account shows how the Great War (1914–1918) that involved two dozen countries and killed about twenty million people marked the beginning of conflicts with weapons capable of mass destruction.

In this historical novel, a young woman is forced to relive her recent past as a switchboard operator on the front lines of WWI when she begins to receive mysterious, threatening telephone calls at work.