Iliad*

Homer

The Melian Dialogue

Thucydides

Henry VI, Part I*

William Shakespeare

Letters

New York Legislature/George Washington

On Discipline In Democratic Armies

Alexis de Toqueville

Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

On Caregiving

Walt Whitman

War and Peace*

Leo Tolstoy

The Moral Equivalent of War

Williams James

Why War?

Sigmund Freud

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

William Butler Yeats

The Veteran

Stephen Crane

Italian Ordeal Surprises Congress

Anne O’Hare McCormick

Poems

Wilfred Owen

To a Conscript of 1940

Herbert Read

Soldier’s Home

Ernest Hemingway

Reporting the War in Tunisia

Ernie Pyle

Guests of the Nation

Frank O’Connor

A Negro Looks at This War

J. Saunders Redding

These Terrible Records of War

James Agee

Tarawa: The Story of a Battle*

Robert Sherrod

The Price We Pay In Italy

Eric Sevareid

Revisiting My Memoir

Edward W. Wood Jr.

Village

Estela Portillo Tremblay

It Is Dangerous to Read Newspapers

Margaret Atwood

A Rumor of War*

Philip Caputo

What It Is Like to Go to War*

Karl Marlantes

In Pharaoh’s Army*

Tobias Wolff

The Things They Carried*

Tim O’Brien

Facing It

Yusef Komunyakaa

A Piece of My Heart*

Anne Simon Auger as told to Keith Walker

A Journey Taken with My Son

Myrna Bein

Reclamation

John Berens

The Good Soldiers*

David Finkel

The Boy Without a Flag

Abraham Rodriguez Jr

Perimeter Watch

Brian Turner

Dust to Dust*

Benjamin Busch

Medevac Missions

Ed Hrivnak

You Know When the Men Are Gone*

Siobhan Fallon

Veterans

Brian Humphreys

The Hardest Letter to Write

Parker Gyokeres

Shallow Hands

Michael Poggi

To the Fallen

John McCary

*Indicates a selection from a longer work.