Reddit mentions: The best children military books

This is my favorite:

https://www.amazon.com/Founding-Brothers-Revolutionary-Joseph-Ellis/dp/0375705244

Another, very predictable one!

https://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226712/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Z1QBK7D5EDQXNGWDEABX

This one was surprisingly good, but I read it a long time ago:

https://www.amazon.com/Redcoats-Rebels-American-Revolution-Through/dp/0393322939/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524103441&sr=1-1&keywords=redcoats+%26+rebels+the+american+revolution+through+british+eyes

Basically a kids book but I LOVED it!

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Courage-Revolutionary-Adventures-Joseph/dp/1444351354/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524103555&sr=1-3&keywords=plumb+martin

This too! (Actually embarrassing, but again, a GREAT read! Probably totally supports your point as this list grows!)

https://www.amazon.com/Yankee-Doodle-Boy-Adventures-Revolution/dp/082341180X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524103555&sr=1-4&keywords=plumb+martin

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Revolutionary-Began-Landmark-Books/dp/0375822003/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524103676&sr=1-3&keywords=liberty%21

Here's one I started and never finished but was looking very interesting:

https://www.amazon.com/Radicalism-American-Revolution-Gordon-Wood/dp/0679736883/ref=sr_1_17?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524103778&sr=1-17&keywords=history+of+the+american+revolution

This is going to sound silly, but the origami. I know it originally started in China but Japan is what everyone associates with. When I was in the first grade, each class chose a country to study and ours was Japan. Our teacher (whose parents were from Japan), taught us how to origami. I still know how to do some of the simple animals and boxes (though I am awful at everything else).

I also vaguely remember her bringing some Japanese candy for us to try. I don't remember what is tasted like but I do remember you could eat the paper (I think it melted in your mouth).

And we read the book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, which is still one of the most beautiful and heart breaking stories I have read.

I also love anime. Particularly Cowboy Bebop (the best anime), Hayao Miyazaki (who doesn't love Studio Ghibli?), and Dragon Ball Z (yes, it is awful but it was my gateway anime). For my Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were the shows that brought my dad, siblings, and I together every Saturday morning (so I have to thank Japan for that).

I'm not an ESL teacher, but I'm a declared History major and a nearly declared Spanish major. I really think that learning a new language is like being 3 all over again, and most people need pictures and games like when they were little and learning to speak.

I have found history coloring books online that I plan to use sometimes as fun mini lessons. (Example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486436950/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_tSKYxbD162ZQG )

I'm not sure, but if you could find one on your lesson and then provide it to them and allow them to get their points differently, I think it could really make a difference for them. Like you could have them practice a few pages at home and with you and then present it to the class rather than writing papers since they are having trouble.


I'm not sure if this is helpful or not...but good luck!!

This is an amazing resource for kids. It's densly packed with great information and puts it in a way kids can follow and get wrapped up in it. I'm not trying to sell it...really...it's just my friend put a lot of work into it, and it's made the NYT Bestseller list for graphic books. Really well done. He has such a love for history that really comes out in his books.

http://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Hales-Hazardous-Tales-Treaties/dp/1419708082/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416771479&sr=8-1&keywords=nathan+hale%27s+hazardous+tales+treaties+trenches+mud+and+blood

I can't say of a novel aside from Treasure Island, but I've run across a nice little resource type book called Pirateology. It tells you all about the ships, weapons, famous pirates, it's a great book. There's also Pirates which is a little cheaper, more of a children's resource guide, but it's nice nonetheless. It's a wee bit easier to find than the first, but the first is considered the "go to" when speaking on behalf of Pirates.

Some pretty good reads on the subject:

Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763629723/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_WF1Dub0WN55RY

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004IK8PLE/ref=aw_ss_kndl_dp/

Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802715478/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_OH1Dub103RXB7

And, believe it or not,

Cracking Codes and Cryptograms For Dummies https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005CB22A8/ref=aw_ss_kndl_dp/

You also might check your local newspaper for "Cryptoquote." It's a daily quote that uses a different cipher each day. Great for practice!

A classic book from elementary school, haha :)

Thanks for the contest! (And, if you're american, HAPPY FOURTH IF JULY!)

Goddamn This War by Jacques Tardi is tremendous. It's dark but so is ever WWI book.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1606995820/

For a lighter, more humourous WWI graphic novel, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood is great.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1419708082/

This ones great - I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment: (ALA Notable Children's Book, Horn Book Fanfare Honor Book) (American History Classics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0517885514/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_zWmkzbMGDAB4J

We love the choose your own adventure style history / survival books. Not exactly in the same vein, but they're a hit with my boy who also loved Jocko's book.

Love Tanks? Download "Victory Follows: Jagdpanther" this weekend on Amazon!


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZN5YWK5

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Its the first in a series of short histories on specific tanks, written by a tank enthusiast. What are you waiting for? Go download a copy!

Does anyone else remember the DK Eyewitness books? I remember reading about this in that series a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was on page 28 or 29 looking at the table of contents. Those books are amazing.

http://www.amazon.com/DK-Eyewitness-Books-World-War/dp/0756630088

Stephen Biesty's wonderful multi-layered cross-section books are marvelously suitable for children, and great achievements regardless of their intended age group. I read this one so many times in my youth that it soon resembled the ship being described.

EDIT: Additionally, the publishing company that puts out many of his best cross-section books (Dorling Kindersley) has numerous other titles under the "military history" banner. The Eyewitness series is lavishly illustrated and aimed at children 8 and up. See this one on World War II for an example.

Hmmm have you read Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures? It is a different type of book from Burned Alive but was really great.

*Edit: Also Tears of the Desert and Bite of the Mango!

Ha, yeah, my wife was a tutor for some slow-readers and a couple of kids with autism so I've been exposed to a lot of that stuff.

Do you ever do much with the oversize nonfiction books at the library? Something like Arms & Armor or Soldier. These kinds of books are packed full of interesting pictures with short paragraph-format captions describing everything.

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I remember a pirates book on the library. I am not sure but it could be This

or That

If you are interested more visual book, and a little fancy. I remember that gem in the eye was inside the second page or something. Making a hole in the hardcover, giving 3D feeling.

Read his two autobiographies (Amazon Link), the first is a very amusing account of growing up in the public school system of the UK whilst the second is fascinating regarding his experiences working in Africa and flying fighters in WW2.

Courage Has No Color is a really great book about the only black Paratrooper outfit in the war. The Red Tails is a good book about the Tuskegee Airmen. The Road to Victory is a really fantastic book about the 'Red Ball Express' which was a major transportation and logistics effort in Europe which was made up of in large part African American troops.

http://www.amazon.com/George-Washington-Spymaster-Americans-Revolutionary/dp/1426300417

Great read...also google the 'Culper Spy Ring' and Major Benjamin Tallmadge


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> I mean, change the countries around a little, and it could be coloring a picture of Pearl Harbor being bombed, the London Underground attacks, or the World Trade Center going down.

You mean like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Story-World-Dover-History-Coloring/dp/0486436950

Dover has the best colouring books! (Yes, I know it's for kids older than 5.)

My best guess would be that the teacher needed to kill some time and made a stack of old assorted colouring pages available to the kids so they could amuse themselves. I doubt it was part of any kind of lesson.

As a kid the Horrible Histories series of educational books were some of my favorites.
Two of the books delt with the WW2 The Woeful Second World War and The Blitzed-Brits.
Both are excellent and age appropriate.

You might not find any one who's willing to answer, but if you're interested in more information, I can point you here and here.

You could dox me, surely. You could easily find at least my name, probably more with that (I have a fairly unique first/last name combination).

Likely you couldn't take over any of my accounts. I don't reuse passwords, I have a neat little salt-system that ensures that. I am still a data-engineer, still a web-developer, so I'm not making the same mistakes 95% of everyone does.

I disagree regarding the Founding Fathers; their attitude seems more along the lines of 'if you want to keep a secret, then you better work hard at keeping secrets'.

George Washington was the country's first spymaster, and subterfuge and privacy were high on his list of important things. He was damn good at it too (good book on the subject).

But you can't legislate privacy: You cannot legislate "don't give away secrets". It's just like "you can't legislate away stupidity". People who want privacy can get it. Easily. People who don't care, don't care.

People who want privacy but at the same time post their shit all over the internet... well I'm glad the founding fathers didn't take that type into consideration. They are the same people who want no GMOs, no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, and oh, make sure no one goes hungry too. These are people who want to have their cake and eat it too, as the saying goes.

On that note; the NSA still can't legally spy directly on citizens without a warrant. Even after all the Snowden docs released, no one pays attention to this little tidbit. They haven't been spying on citizens. They can spy on corporations without a warrant... and if you give your personal data to Facebook, Google, whatever, then NSA spies on Facebook.. well they'll get your data too. That's how it works. That's why this is still a personal decision for people to make. I don't have a Facebook. That's my personal decision made. The day the government tries to mandate people all get a Facebook, then I'll get all up-in-arms with my Constitutional self. But that's never gonna happen.

Why mention self-publication? I'm not following you on that point.