VETERAN'S DAY

Today is Veteran's Day, formerly known as "Armistice Day", commemorating the end of "The War To End all Wars". Many official ceremonies and speeches will be given today honoring all American soldiers. Songs, poems, articles, and on-line links about WWI, veterans, and Veterans Day can be found at Butlers Webs, Spartacus Schoolnet, and Sheryl's Holiday Site: Veterans Day, including Colonel John McCrae"s "In Flanders Field".

The Elk Grove Library has many books written about World War I, as well as the other 20th Century Wars, and the men and women who fought in them. Here are a few about the Armistice and WWI:

Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax (2004) by Joseph E. Persico (940.439 PER)

Suddenly We Didn't Want to Die: Memoirs of a World War I Marine (1993) by Elton E. Mackin (940.4 MAC)

Over There: A Marine in the Great War (1996) by Carl Andrew Brannen (940.4144 BRA)

Fighting the Flying Circus (1965) by Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. Edited and with a foreword by Arch Whitehouse (940.44 RIC)

The War at Sixteen: Autobiography by Julian Green
(Bio GRE)

Ace of the Iron Cross (1970) by Ernst Udet. Edited by Stanley M. Ulanoff. Translated by Richard K. Riehn (940.4 UDE)

The Doughboys; The Story of the AEF, 1917-1918 (1963) by Laurence Stallings (940.3 STA)

EGVPL has several movies--Here's a list from Reel Rant of Frank Steel's "Best War Movies"--(besides non-fiction documentaries) that touch on the experience of World War I:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (DVD)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) (DVD)
The Blue Max (1966) (DVD)
A Farewell to Arms (1932) (VHS)
Hell's Angels (1930) (DVD)
Sergeant York (1941) (VHS)
A Very Long Engagement (2004) (Foreign Film French DVD)
and
World War I Films of the Silent Era (DVD 791.4375 WOR)--fiction and non-fiction silents, including "propaganda" stagings