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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- Dear Bob ..., Bob Hope's wartime correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II, written and compiled by Martha Bolton with Linda Hope
- The Mighty Eighth, the air war in Europe as told by the men who flew it, Gerald Astor
- Unknown soldiers, reliving World War II in Europe, Joseph E. Garland
- Countdown!, Fred Koger
- One soldier's story, a memoir, Bob Dole
- Last man out, by H. Robert Charles
- To hell and back, Audie Murphy ; foreword by Tom Brokaw
- Eyewitness to World War II, the best of American heritage, edited and with an introduction by Stephen W. Sears
- World War II memoirs, the Pacific Theater
- Eyewitness to World War II, unforgettable stories and photographs from history's greatest conflict, Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
- Behind enemy lines, a young pilot's story, Howard R. DeMallie
- Flight of a maverick, in the secret war against Hitler, Robert Fesmire
- The greatest war, Americans in combat, 1941-1945, Gerald Astor
- The G. I. journal of Sergeant Giles, Compiled and edited by Janice Holt Giles
- The liberators, America's witnesses to the Holocaust, Michael Hirsh
- I'll be home for Christmas, the Library of Congress revisits the spirit of Christmas during World War II
- Hell in the Pacific, a Marine rifleman's journey from Guadalcanal to Peleliu, Jim McEnery with Bill Sloan
- You're stepping on my cloak and dagger
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Guadalcanal diary, Richard Tregaskis
- We were each other's prisoners, an oral history of World War II American and German prisoners of war, by Lewis H. Carlson
- The rifle, combat stories from America's last WWII veterans, told through an M1 Garand, Andrew Biggio ; foreword by Hershel "Woody" Williams
- An album of memories, personal histories from The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Behind Japanese lines, an American guerilla in the Philippines, Ray C. Hunt & Bernard Norling. --
- 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
- Beyond band of brothers, [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters], Dick Winters ; with Cole C. Kingseed
- Berlin diary, the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941, [by] William L. Shirer
- Helmet for my pillow, from Parris Island to the Pacific, a young Marine's stirring account of combat in World War II, Robert Leckie
- War stories II, heroism in the Pacific, Oliver L. North with Joe Musser
- 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. --
- Code talker, the first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII, by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila ; foreword by Jeff Bingaman
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Life in a Japanese American internment camp, by Diane Yancey
- Bataan, a survivor's story, by Gene Boyt with David L. Burch ; foreword by Gregory J.W. Urwin
- In the footsteps of the Band of Brothers, [a return to Easy Company's battlefields with Sergeant Forrest Guth], Larry Alexander
- Simple sounds of freedom, the true story of the only soldier to fight with both America and the Soviet Union, Thomas H. Taylor
- Never will we forget, oral histories of World War II, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper
- The greatest generation speaks, letters and reflections, Tom Brokaw
- Into the valley, a skirmish of the marines, [by] John Hersey. Illustrations by Major Donald L. Dickson ..
- Goodbye, darkness, a memoir of the Pacific War, William Manchester. --
- 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
- Sisterhood of spies, the women of the OSS, Elizabeth P. McIntosh
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