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While You Wait For "Redeployment" Why Not Try...
Phil Klay's Redeployment is a National Book Award–winning collection of stories about soldiers grappling with the harsh realities of war. It is currently in high demand, so while you wait for your hold to arrive you might be interested in one of the following similar titles.
Fire and Forget: Short Stories
This haunting collection of stories written by soldiers and one military spouse gives a powerful voice to soldiers returning home from war.
Fives and Twenty-Fives: A Novel by Michael Pitre
This thrilling portrait captures the horrors of the Iraqi war, the gruesome deaths of fellow soldiers and the difficulties faced by veterans upon returning to their homeland.
Matterhorn: a novel of The Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
In this Gritty Vietnam novel, soldiers are faced not only with the ravishes of combat, but are forced to grapple with the devastating external factor of war.
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction by Tim O'Brien
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Wynne's War by Aaron Gwyn
A heart-pounding, richly detailed account of a secret mission in Afghanistan that is as deceptive as it is bloody.
The Yellow Birds: A Novel by Kevin Powers
A breathtaking novel of two young soldiers who are thrust into a war neither is prepared to fight.
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