Washington's crossing /David Hackett Fischer -- Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier / Private Joseph Plumb Martin -- Old Hickory's finest hour / Thomas Fleming -- Dispatches from the Mexican War / George Wilkins Kendall -- A day : Hospital sketches, Fredericksburg / Louisa May Alcott -- Bayonet : forward! / Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain -- Appomattox / Ulysses S. Grant -- Little Big Horn / Chief Red Horse and George Herendon -- The battle of San Juan / Richard Harding Davis -- Yanks : the Argonne : John S.D. Eisenhower -- My war : Normandy / Andy Rooney -- And yet we got on / Ernie Pyle -- The longest day / Cornelius Ryan -- Dachau / Martha Gellhorn -- The story of the Bulge / John Toland -- Merrill's marauders / Dave Richardson -- Lovely Americans / Robert Shaplen -- Inchon / Gen. Matthew Bunker Ridgway -- A reporter's journal from hell : the Ia Drang Valley / Joe Galloway -- If I die in a combat zone / Tim O'Brien -- Crusade / Rick Atkinson -- Black Hawk down / Mark Bowden -- Among warriors in Iraq / Mike Tucker.