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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- The greatest generation speaks, Tom Brokaw
- Last train from Berlin, Howard K. Smith ; with a new introduction by the author
- Love, war, and the 96th Engineers (Colored), the World War II New Guinea diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson, edited Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
- A fence away from freedom, Japanese Americans and World War II, Ellen Levine
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- 200,000 miles aboard the destroyer Cotten, C. Snelling Robinson
- Classics, U.S. aircraft of World War II, photography by Mark Meyer ; introduction by Walter J. Boyne
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Goodbye, darkness, a memoir of the Pacific war, William Manchester
- Across the dark islands, the war in the Pacific, Floyd W. Radike
- Tumult in the clouds, James A. Goodson
- All the way to Berlin, a paratrooper at war in Europe, James Megellas
- Easy Company soldier, the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers", Don Malarkey and Bob Welch
- Tales of a war pilot, Richard C. Kirkland
- War stories II, heroism in the Pacific, Oliver L. North with Joe Musser
- 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
- Letters from a World War II G.I., [edited] by Judith E. Greenberg and Helen Carey McKeever
- Into the rising sun, in their own words, World War II's Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat, [reported by] Patrick K. O'Donnell
- I'll be home for Christmas, the Library of Congress revisits the spirit of Christmas during World War II, [editor, Tom Spain, Michael Shohl]
- The forbidden diary, a B-24 navigator remembers, John L. Stewart
- Witness to Nuremberg, Richard W. Sonnenfeldt
- My two wars, Moritz Thomsen ; introduction by Page Stegner
- MacArthur's airman, General George C. Kenney and the war in the southwest Pacific, Thomas E. Griffith Jr
- Old man in a baseball cap, a memoir of World War II, Fred Rochlin
- The taste of war, Margaret Bourke-White ; edited and introduced by Jonathan Silverman
- Better than good, a Black sailor's war, 1943-1945, Adolph W. Newton, with Winston Eldridge
- Sixty days in combat, an infantryman's memoir of World War II in Europe, Dean P. Joy
- Battleground Pacific, a Marine rifleman's combat odyssey in K/3/5, Sterling Mace and Nick Allen
- Always faithful, a memoir of the Marine dogs of WWII, William W. Putney
- One man's war, the WWII saga of Tommy LaMore, Tommy LaMore and Dan A. Baker
- Fighter pilot, the memoirs of legendary ace Robin Olds, Robin Olds with Christina Olds and Ed Rasimus
- We're in this war too, World War II letters from American women in uniform, [edited by] Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith
- Hitlerland, American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power, Andrew Nagorski
- Dead reckoning, experiences of a World War II fighter pilot, by Alan K. Abner
- The man who flew the Memphis Belle, memoir of a WWII bomber pilot, Robert Morgan, with Ron Powers
- War is not just for heroes, World War II dispatches and letters of U.S. Marine Corps combat correspondent Claude R. "Red" Canup, edited by Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima ; foreword by Keith Oliver
- The sea hawks, with the PT boats at war, Edgar D. Hoagland
- I marched with Patton, a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest generals, Frank Sisson with Robert L. Wise
- When conscience and power meet, a memoir, Eugene N. Zeigler Jr. ; foreword by Dan T. Carter
- Luck of the draw, my story of the air war in Europe, Frank Murphy ; foreword by Chloe Melas and Elizabeth Murphy
- Lost in action, a World War II soldier's account of capture on Bataan and imprisonment by the Japanese, by Dick Bilyeu
- The last fighter pilot, the true story of the final combat mission of World War II, Don Brown with Captain Jerry Yellin ; forewords by Captain Jerry Yellin and Melanie Sloan
- World War II memoirs, the Pacific Theater
- Sleeping dogs and popsicles, the Vatican versus the KGB, Eugene H. Van Dee
- Whatever it took, an American paratrooper's extraordinary memoir of escape, survival, and heroism in the last days of World War II, Henry Langrehr and Jim DeFelice
- Edwin and John, a personal history of the American South, James T. Sears
- The road back to Paris, A.J. Liebling
- Luck of the draw, my story of the air war in Europe, Frank Murphy ; foreword by Chloe Melas, and Elizabeth Murphy
- The road to Arnhem, a Screaming Eagle in Holland, Donald R. Burgett
- Tin can man, E.J. Jernigan
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