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For nearly the last century, America has honored its brave and hard-working veterans every year on November 11. Check out the following selection of Penguin books for anyone who is a veteran, knows a veteran, or just wants to learn more.

Air Combat: A History of Fighter Pilots by Robert F. Dorr

Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 352 pages | ISBN 9780425217412 | 06 Nov 2007 | Berkley | 18 - AND UP

In Air Combat, veteran and military author Robert F. Dorr has collected dozens of interviews from combat veterans who have faced the enemy in the skies above-from the first days of World War II to the current war on terror. Each story offers a firsthand account of what it's like to be in the thick of the fight, describes the history, strengths, and weaknesses of each man's plane in detail, and offers readers a rare glimpse into the minds and hearts of those who dare to fight in the air.

Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator by Samuel Hynes

Book: Paperback | 5.11 x 7.71in | 272 pages | ISBN 9780142002902 | 04 Feb 2003 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP

Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places-the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people-the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.

The Depths of Courage: American Submariners at War with Japan, 1941-1945 by Flint Whitlock and Ron Smith

Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 448 pages | ISBN 9780425223703 | 04 Nov 2008 | Berkley

In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, the small, illequipped arm of the Navy known as Submarine Force would stand between the shattered U.S. Pacific Fleet and the might of the Japanese Navy. Unfortunately, the spirit and courage of the Submarine Force is being forgotten as the veterans of that force pass into history.

Coming soon in paperback from NAL - January 2009: Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat From America's Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan by Major Chuck Larson, General Tommy Franks, John McCain

Happy Veterans' Day from Penguin Online!