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Best Books of 2017: A dozen can’t-miss military reads

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This was the year of reading voraciously. Why? Because literary fiction by veterans continues to achieve mainstream recognition, and nonfiction becomes more inclusive. Unsung women decipher enemy plans in “Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II.” The welcome and necessary anthology “It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military …

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