Book Sentry, March 2014 issue

Spot the new arrivals on military history, especially those providing context for the library's ongoing Veterans History Project.

Vietnam: The Real War: A Photographic History by the Associated Press By Hamill, Pete Author Associated Press Author Associated Press 2013-10 - ABRAMS 9781419708640 Check Our Catalog …More

Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam's Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned By Townley, Alvin 2014-02 - St. Martin's Press 9781250006530 Check Our Catalog The story of the indomitable American POWs who endured "Alcatraz," the Hanoi prison camp where North Vietnam locked its most dangerous and subversive prisoners, and the wives who fought to bring them home. …More

A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery from World War I By Jaffe, Eric 2014-01 - Scribner Book Company 1451612052 Check Our Catalog

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War By Kinzer, Stephen 2013-10 - Times Books 0805094970 Check Our Catalog A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into foreign adventures that decisively shaped today's world as the Cold War was at its peak. …More

The Russian Origins of the First World War By McMeekin, Sean 2011-11 - Belknap Press 0674062108 Check Our Catalog In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a miscalculation. The key to the outbreak of violence, he argues, lies in St. Petersburg. Russian statesmen unleashed the war through policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. …More

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America By Jacobsen, Annie 2014-02 - Little Brown and Company 031622104X Check Our Catalog The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Area 51" …More

Andrew Nelles Comments on His Afghan Experience and the Library Exhibition

“It was very intense experience in every way you can imagine,” said Nelles in a phone interview. “During my time over there, a lot of the units I worked with embedded with the Afghan Army and police. There were a lot of Afghan soldiers working alongside the American that were well-trained and disciplined and some that were not. It was interesting to see the spectrum of that.

“I hope that by viewing the work, I can give the person viewing the work a better insight what the daily life is like for the people involved in this war.”

 Mr. Nelles's description appears  in the latest issue of the Niles Herald Spectator in an article written by Gail Saunders and also quotes library marketing director, Sue Wilsey on the library's renovation and the Franklin Gallery. 

Mr. Nelles will continue to display his photos through the end of March on the 3rd Floor North of the Niles Public Library, located at 6960 W. Oakton St. Library hours are:  Monday through Thursday, 9 - 9; Friday, 9-7; Saturday 9-5, and Sunday, 1-5pm.

An Exhibition, "Afghanistan, 2010 and 2012" Andrew Nelles, Chicago Photojournalist

Chicago photojournalist Andrew Nelles took this picture of Lt. Steven Robinson, 82nd Airborne Division, pausing  during an early morning patrol near Bala Murghab in Badghis Province, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, May 24, 2010. ( © Andrew A. Nelles) 

Mr. Nelles worked as an embedded photojournalist with the US Army in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2012.
He is currently exhibiting 25 of his dramatic  photographs at the Niles Public Library, 6960 W. Oakton St. in the 3rd Floor Franklin Gallery.

Mr. Nelles will discuss his career and overseas work on Sunday, February 16, at 2pm at the library.

His international work also includes photographing projects in Turkish Kurdistan and Iraq. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago, Andrew has previously worked on the photo staff of The Chicago Sun-Times and as an intern for the Bucks County Courier-Times in Pennsylvania.

His has received numerous awards, including 2012 Sports Photojournalist of the Year from the Illinois Press Photographers Association, and other recognition from the National Press Photographers Association, and the Illinois College Press Association.