Books like Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler

Cambodian child soldier recounts his survival against the Khmer Rouge regime.

In an Arkansas town hosting German POWs during World War II, 12‑year‑old Patty Bergen befriends the escaped prisoner Anton, learning that humanity can transcend prejudice and fear.

Airmen in the Vietnam War struggle with grief and guilt for their lost comrades.

"McElroy, with a detachment of his regiment, was guarding a supply route to Cumberland Gap when his entire company was captured in a surprise attack one morning during the winter of 1862-63. He and his comrades were taken to Lippy Prison, and from there they were sent to Andersonville. McElroy spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. His story of attempts at escape, of comrades tracked through cypress swamps by packs of vicious dogs, and of the everyday struggle just to stay alive, is one of the great stories of the Civil War"--Jacket.

A young African American boy who resents his life as a slave joins the Union Army during the Civil War, proving his courage and skill by leading a mule team when the need arises.

When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is terrifying, and so are the odds against the Finns: the Russians have 4 times as many soldiers and 30 times as many planes. They have 3000 tanks, while the Finns have 30. But a tank is no help in the snowy forest--a boy on skis is. And the Russians don't know winter the way the Finns do, or what tough guerrilla warriors the Finns are. Marko teams up with another messenger, Karl. Gradually Marko learns that Karl's whole family was killed by the Russians. And Karl has a secret--he's really Kaari, a girl who joined up to get revenge for her family's deaths.From the Hardcover edition.

Pulitzer‑winning 1955 novel depicting the horrors of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate concentration camp that walled the lives of Civil War POWs.

Mitch Rapp races to stop a dying Russian president from triggering a NATO war, while CIA director Irene Kennedy must send him on a perilous mission into Moscow's heart.

A handsome poet in seventeenth-century France falls in love with a beautiful cousin but struggles to make his feelings known due to his physical appearance.