Top+5+Books

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Here is a list of my top 5 Books/Novels/Professional journals that I would use

 * Storm of Steel
 * Ernst Junger. (2004). **//Storm of Steel. //**New York, NY. Penguin Group Inc.
 * **Author** - Ernst Junger
 * **Reading** **Level** - 10th
 * **ISBN**-13 9780142437902
 * **Publication** **date**: 5/4/2004 *Newest Republication - Penguin Classics
 * **Pages**: 320
 * **Cost** - Used $8.99
 *  **Reasoning -** The reason I chose this book is because students will benefit from this book in astronomic ways! This book, Storm of Steel provides a breathtakingly true story about the life of a German solider in 1914 and how he struggled every day to survive the horrors of the First World War. Students will find this book extremely engaging because it does not leave out any gruesome details, it does not de-sensitizes the war, it tells it as it was disgusting, horrible, bloody and scary


 * Old Glory and the Stars & Bars
 * George W. Koon. (1995). **//Old glory and the stars and bars. //**Columbia, SC. University of South Carolina Press.
 * **Author** - George W. Koon
 * **Reading** **Level** 10th
 * **ISBN**-13: 9781570030574
 * **Publication** **date**: 9/28/1995
 * **Pages** : 238
 * **Cost** - Used $1
 * **Reasoning **- The reason I chose this book is because it provides a very unique collection of short stories from the Civil War era. Unlike the traditional informative layout that students have grown accustom to as a result of the overuse of textbooks, Old Glory and the Stars & Bars provides information in a more narrative style approach. According to Barnes and Noble what "sets Old Glory and Stars and Bars apart from other Civil War volumes is its mix of familiar and relatively new authors, mosaic of perspectives which run the gamut from Union soldier to slave girl, and inclusion of female and African-American voices."


 * Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
 * R. B. Bernstein. (2005). **//Thomas jefferson. //** Oxford, United Kingdom. Oxford University Press.
 * **Author** - R.B. Bernstein
 * **Reading** **Level** - 12th +
 * **ISBN** -13: 9780486442891
 * **Publication** **date**: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6/3/2005
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Pages** : 253
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Cost** - Used $11.91
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Reasoning** - The reason I chose this book is because of the shear magnitude that Thomas Jefferson had on the creation of the United States of America. Thomas Jefferson was one, if not the most important person in American History due to the ungodly amount of contributes on his behave ranging from the Declaration of Independence to his work on religious freedom. R.B. Bernstein depicts Jefferson as an architect, inventor, writer, diplomat, propagandist, planter, and party leader.


 * Appeal To Arms
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Willard M. Wallace. (1964). **//<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Appeal to arms: A military history of the american revolution. //** New York, NY<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Crown Publishing Group.
 * **Author** - Willard M. Wallace
 * **Reading** **Level** - 10th
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ISBN** -13 9780812960167
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Publication** **date**: 1/28/1964
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Pages** : 274
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Cost** - Used $3.25
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Reasoning** - The reason I chose this book is due to the authors ability to intertwine a semi easy level readability with tremendously in-depth account of the revolutionary war. The book itself is not a comprehensive summary of the Revolutionary War like you would typically find in a historical novel. Instead the author picks and chooses certain aspects of the war and elaborates in create detail about each of them.


 * Night <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Elie
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Wiesel. (2012). **//<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Night. //** New York.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 * **Author** - Elie Wiesel
 * **Reading Level** - 8th
 * **ISBN**-13 9780374500016
 * **Publication date**: 1/16/2006
 * **Pages**: 144
 * **Cost** - Used $3.13
 * **Reasoning** - The reason I chose this book is simply because it is one of the most important books a person. This book should be read by all persons regardless if they have a personal interest in the holocaust; everyone needs to see what happened to the Jews as a result of the Third Reich. As Barnes and Noble notes in its summary of this novel, "//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Night //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps."