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What to read after Young Digger by Anthony Hill: 24 titles sharing themes of Adoption & Fostering, Military & Wars, World War I, and Biographical, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Tuskegee Airmen American Heroes — Lynn M. Homan

Tuskegee Airmen American Heroes

Themes: Military & Wars • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Sky A True Story of Resistance During World War II : Illustrated with Photographs, Documents, and Letters from the Author’s Collection — Hanneke Ippisch

Sky A True Story of Resistance During World War II : Illustrated with Photographs, Documents, and Letters from the Author’s Collection

Hanneke Ippisch

Themes: Military & Wars • Biographical • Wars & Conflicts

Life on the Western Front — Nick Hunter

Life on the Western Front

Themes: Military & Wars • World War I • Wars & Conflicts

Events Leading to World War I — John Hamilton

Events Leading to World War I

Themes: Military & Wars • World War I • Wars & Conflicts

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson A Political Soldier — Keith Jeffery

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson A Political Soldier

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The First Code Talkers Native American Communicators in World War I — William C. Meadows

The First Code Talkers Native American Communicators in World War I

William C. Meadows

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Billie the Nevill Letters 19141916 — Harris Ruth Elwin

Billie the Nevill Letters 19141916

Harris Ruth Elwin

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The First VCs The Moving True Story of First World War Heroes – Maurice Dease and Sidney Godley — Mark Ryan

The First VCs The Moving True Story of First World War Heroes – Maurice Dease and Sidney Godley

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

First to Fly The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I — Charles Bracelen Flood

First to Fly The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I

Charles Bracelen Flood

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

VCs of the North Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland — Alan Whitworth

VCs of the North Cumbria, Durham and Northumberland

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

None that Go Return Leighton, Brittain and Friends, and the Lost Generation 1914-18 — Don Farr

None that Go Return Leighton, Brittain and Friends, and the Lost Generation 1914-18

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Destination Unknown The Diary of Gunner Bates R.H.A. 1914 — Edward Bates

Destination Unknown The Diary of Gunner Bates R.H.A. 1914

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Who Killed Kitchener? The Life and Death of Britain’s Most Famous War Minister — David Laws

Who Killed Kitchener? The Life and Death of Britain’s Most Famous War Minister

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Intimate History of the Great War Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from Soldiers on the Front — Quinto Antonelli

Intimate History of the Great War Letters, Diaries, and Memoirs from Soldiers on the Front

Quinto Antonelli

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

From the Western Front to Salonika A French Soldier Writes Home : Letters of Pierre Suberviolle (1914-1919) — Pierre Suberviolle

From the Western Front to Salonika A French Soldier Writes Home : Letters of Pierre Suberviolle (1914-1919)

Pierre Suberviolle

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli — Bryan Cooper

The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Mountains of Moab The Diary of a Yeoman 1908-1919 : Including Gallipoli and Palestine During the Great War — Edward Victor Godrich

Mountains of Moab The Diary of a Yeoman 1908-1919 : Including Gallipoli and Palestine During the Great War

Edward Victor Godrich

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

When the Great Red Dawn is Shining Howard L. Morry’s Memoirs of Life in the Newfoundland Regiment — Howard Morry

When the Great Red Dawn is Shining Howard L. Morry’s Memoirs of Life in the Newfoundland Regiment

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The Blue Beast Power and Passion in the Great War — Jonathan Walker

The Blue Beast Power and Passion in the Great War

Jonathan Walker

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Notes Soldier’s Memoir of World War I — Clifton J. Cate

Notes Soldier’s Memoir of World War I

Clifton J. Cate

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The Escape Artists A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War — Neal Bascomb

The Escape Artists A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty The Last Naval Hero : an Intimate Biography — Estate of Stephen Roskill

Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty The Last Naval Hero : an Intimate Biography

Estate of Stephen Roskill

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The Good Soldier The Biography of Douglas Haig — Gary Mead

The Good Soldier The Biography of Douglas Haig

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

The Wounded World W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War — Chad L. Williams

The Wounded World W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War

Chad L. Williams

Themes: World War I • Cultural, Ethnic & Regional • Wars & Conflicts

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