National University NEH Dialogues of War Project: Veterans Speak

NEH Discussion Group Reading

• Homer, The Iliad. http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html.

• Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Vintage, 1977, reprint 1991).

• Kim Heikkila, Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011).

• Karl Marlantes, What It Is Like to Go to War (London: Corvus, 2012). Focus on chapters on Loyalty, Heroism, Home, and The [veteran] Club (pgs. 134-220).

• John McCain, Faith of my Fathers (New York: Random House, 2000), (4 chapters), Chapter 12, “Fifth from the Bottom;” Chapter 13, “Navy Flyer;” Chapter 16, “Prisoner of War;” Chapter 28, “Free Men.”

• Heidi Squier Kraft, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital (Boston: Back Bay Books, 2012).