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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- With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, E. B. Sledge
- Why Marines fight, James Brady
- 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
- Now hear this, the memoir of a junior naval officer in the great Pacific war, Douglas Edward Leach
- I am alive, [a United States Marine's story of survival in a World War II Japanese POW camp], Charles R. Jackson and Bruce H. Norton
- The Bedford boys, one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice, Alex Kershaw
- The war, American Lives II Film Project, LLC. ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington D.C. ; produced by Sarah Botstein ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
- Last train from Berlin, Howard K. Smith ; with a new introduction by the author
- We pulled together-- and won!, [editor, Deb Mulvey ; contributing editor, Clancy Strock ; assistant editors, Mike Beno ... et al.]
- The flame keepers:, the true story of an American soldier's survival inside Stalag 17, Ned Handy and Kemp Battle
- The greatest generation speaks, letters and reflections, Tom Brokaw
- Soldier of the press, covering the front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943, Henry T. Gorrell ; edited with an introduction by Kenneth Gorrell ; foreword by John C. McManus
- Honor untarnished, a West Point graduate's memoir of World War II, Donald V. Bennett with William R. Forstchen
- To hell and back, Audie Murphy ; foreword by Tom Brokaw
- Beyond band of brothers, [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters], Dick Winters ; with Cole C. Kingseed
- Case by case, a U.S. Army counterintelligence agent in World War II, by Ib Melchior
- Red blood, black sand, fighting alongside John Basilone from boot camp to Iwo Jima, Chuck Tatum
- Eyewitness to World War II, unforgettable stories from history's greatest conflict, Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
- The man who flew the Memphis Belle, memoir of a WWII bomber pilot, Robert Morgan, with Ron Powers
- The greatest war, Americans in combat, 1941-1945, Gerald Astor
- Those who fall, by John Muirhead
- Nightmare on Iwo, Patrick F. Caruso
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Eyewitness Pacific theater, firsthand accounts of the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombs, John T. Kuehn with D.M. Giangreco ; foreword by Eric M. Bergerud
- Code talker, Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila
- Brothers in battle, best of friends, two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story, by William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron with Robyn Post
- We went to war, New Hampshire remembers, Meg Heckman and Mike Pride ; illustrations by Charlotte Thibault ; portraits by Ken Williams
- An album of memories, personal histories from The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Helmet for my pillow, from Parris Island to the Pacific, a young Marine's stirring account of combat in World War II, Robert Leckie
- Call of duty, my life before, during and after the Band of Brothers, Lynn "Buck" Compton, with Marcus Brotherton
- Dauntless helldivers, a dive-bomber pilot's epic story of the carrier battles, Harold L. Buell
- Shot at and missed, recollections of a World War II bombardier, Jack R. Myers
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