World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945
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- Hitlerland, American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power, Andrew Nagorski
- Crisis in the Pacific, the battles for the Philippine Islands by the men who fought them--an oral history, Gerald Astor
- Under the wire, the World War II adventures of a legendary escape artist and "Cooler King, William Ash with Brendan Foley
- To hell and back, Audie Murphy ; foreword by Tom Brokaw
- The road to Arnhem, a Screaming Eagle in Holland, Donald R. Burgett
- Target Ploesti, view from a bombsight, Leroy W. Newby. --
- 82 days on Okinawa, one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle, Col. Art Shaw (Ret.) with Robert L. Wise
- Red blood, black sand, fighting alongside John Basilone from boot camp to Iwo Jima, Chuck Tatum
- Every man a hero, a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war, Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice
- Another river, another town, a teenage tank gunner comes of age in combat, 1945, John P. Irwin
- Xitelei de tu di, Meiguo ren qin li de na cui feng kuang zhi lu, [Mei] Andelu Nageersiji zhu ; Wu Dong, Yao Xiaohan yi
- Muriel's war, an American heiress in the Nazi resistance, Sheila Isenberg
- Parachute infantry, an American paratrooper's memoir of D Day and the fall of the Third Reich, David Kenyon Webster ; introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose
- The comet connection, escape from Hitler's Europe, George Watt
- Battleground Pacific, a Marine rifleman's combat odyssey in K/3/5, Sterling Mace and Nick Allen
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Submarine!, Edward L. Beach
- Birds from hell, history of the B-29, Wilbur H. Morrison
- Evidence not seen, a woman's miraculous faith in a Japanese prison camp during WWII, Darlene Deibler Rose
- When we were one, stories of World War II, W.C. Heinz
- Lee Miller's war, photographer and correspondent with the Allies in Europe, 1944-45, edited by Antony Penrose ; foreword by David E. Scherman
- American shoes, a refugee's story, Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke, and Garrett L. Turke
- Life in a Japanese American internment camp, by Diane Yancey
- V-mail, letters of a World War II combat medic, Keith Winston ; edited with a preface by Sarah Winston ; introduction by John S.D. Eisenhower. --
- Easy Company soldier, the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers", Don Malarkey with Bob Welch
- Tin can man, Emory J. Jernigan
- Japanese-American internment in American history, David K. Fremon
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Code talker, [the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII], Chester Nez / with Judith Schiess Avila
- Seven roads to hell, a Screaming Eagle at Bastogne, Donald R. Burgett
- Brave men, gentle heroes, American fathers and sons in World War II and Vietnam, Michael Takiff
- Coffin corner boys, one bomber, ten men, and their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France, Carole Engle Avriett with Capt. George W. Starks, WWII B-17 Pilot, the Mighty Eighth ; foreword by Lt. Gen. E.G. "Buck" Shuler, Jr., former Commander Eighth Air Force
- Crossing the line, a bluejacket's World War II odyssey, Alvin Kernan
- The greatest generation speaks, letters and reflections, Tom Brokaw
- Eyewitness D-Day, firsthand accounts from the landing at Normandy to the liberation of Paris, D.M. Giangreco with Kathryn Moore ; edited and with a foreword by Norman Polmar
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