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
- The day I fired Alan Ladd and other World War II adventures, A.E. Hotchner
- The Mighty Eighth, the air war in Europe as told by the men who flew it, Gerald Astor
- The other side of time, a combat surgeon in World War II, by Brendan Phibbs. --
- The Pacific war remembered, an oral history collection, edited by John T. Mason, Jr. --
- Lines of battle, letters from American servicemen 1941-1945, edited by Annette Tapert. --
- Beyond band of brothers, the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters, Dick Winters with Cole C. Kingseed
- Lady GI, a woman's war in the South Pacific : the memoir of Irene Brion, Irene Brion
- The eighteen-year-old replacement, facing combat in Patton's Third Army, R. Richard Kingsbury
- The Bedford boys, one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice, Alex Kershaw
- A fence away from freedom, Japanese-Americans and World War II, Ellen Levine
- Keep your airspeed up, the story of a Tuskegee airman, Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner
- Dearest ones, a true World War II love story, Rosemary Norwalk
- One soldier's story, a memoir, Bob Dole
- Another river, another town, a teenage tank gunner comes of age in combat, 1945, John P. Irwin
- The greatest generation with Tom Brokaw., NBC News, DVD/Fullscreen
- Beyond band of brothers, [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters], Dick Winters ; with Cole C. Kingseed
- Dear Donald, Dear Bennett, the wartime correspondence of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer ; introduction by Bob Loomis
- The man who flew the Memphis Belle, memoir of a WWII bomber pilot, Robert Morgan, with Ron Powers
- Berlin diary, the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941, William L. Shirer
- Leaving China, an artist paints his World War II childhood, James McMullan
- Ted Williams at war, by Bill Nowlin
- Brothers in battle, best of friends, two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story, William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron with Robyn Post ; foreword by Tom Hanks
- Ernie's war, the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches, edited with a biographical essay by David Nichols ; foreword by Studs Terkel. --
- Haven, the dramatic story of 1,000 World War II refugees and how they came to America, Ruth Gruber
- 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
- Weller's war, a legendary foreign correspondent's saga of World War II on five continents, George Weller ; edited by Anthony Weller
- Not so wild a dream, Eric Sevareid ; with a new introd. by the author. --
- Life in a Japanese American internment camp, by Diane Yancey
- One way ticket to Berlin, a day in the life of the Mighty Eighth, collected and compiled by John Meurs
- Not home for Christmas, a day in the life of the Mighty Eighth, collected and compiled by John Meurs
- To hell and back
- My private war, liberated body, captive mind : a World War II POW's journey, Norman Bussel
- A quiet American, the secret war of Varian Fry, Andy Marino
- Every man a hero, Ray Lambert
- World War II on the air, Edward R. Murrow and the broadcasts that riveted a nation, Mark Bernstein & Alex Lubertozzi ; CD narrated by Dan Rather
- Japanese-American internment in American history, David K. Fremon
- Radioman, an eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific, [edited by] Carol Edgemon Hipperson
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Deadly magic, a personal account of communications intelligence in World War II in the Pacific, Edward Van Der Rhoer
- Behind the lines, the oral history of Special Operations in World War II, Russell Miller
- The greatest generation with Tom Brokaw, NBC Universal, Inc. ; NBC News, Disc 2
- Defending Baltimore against enemy attack, a boyhood year during World War II, Charles Osgood
- Whispered silences, Japanese Americans and World War II, essay by Gary Y. Okihiro ; photographs by Joan Myers
- My war, a love story in letters and drawings, Tracy Sugarman
- 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
- Easy Company soldier, the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers", Don Malarkey with Bob Welch
- The liberators, America's witnesses to the Holocaust, Michael Hirsh
- First across the Rhine, the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion in France, Belgium, and Germany, David E. Pergrin, with Eric Hammel
- Typhoon, the other enemy, the Third Fleet and the Pacific storm of December 1944, by C. Raymond Calhoun. --
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