- 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.
