Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Memorial Day, keep in mind these books about soldiers in war

OpinionJournal - Five Best

BY JOHN MCCAIN
Saturday, May 26, 2007 12:00 a.m. EDT

1. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner, 1940).
2. "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon (1776-88).

3. "This Kind of War" by T.R. Fehrenbach (Macmillan, 1963).
4. "Hell in a Very Small Place" by Bernard B. Fall (Lippincott, 1966).
5. "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque (Little, Brown, 1929).

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