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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- Battleship Oklahoma, BB-37, Jeff Phister, with Thomas Hone and Paul Goodyear
- Unknown soldiers, reliving World War II in Europe, Joseph E. Garland
- Escape through the Pyrenees
- Hitlerland, American eyewitnesses to the Nazis rise to power, Andrew Nagorski
- Dearest ones, a true World War II love story, Rosemary Norwalk
- Sea, surf and hell, the U.S. Coast guard in world war II, edited by Commodore Arch A. Mercey ... and Lee Grove ... Introduction by Commodore Ellis Reed-Hill ..
- Sailors' journey into war, Robert A. Maher and James E. Wise, Jr
- To kingdom come, an epic saga of survival in the air war over Germany, Robert J. Mrazek
- 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
- The war journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause, Damon "Rocky" Gause ; with an introduction by Damon L. Gause
- The command is forward, [compiled by] James Haahr
- 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
- Code talker, Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila
- Defending Baltimore against enemy attack, a boyhood year during World War II, Charles Osgood
- 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
- I'll be home for Christmas, the Library of Congress revisits the spirit of Christmas during World War II
- 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
- Eyewitness to World War II, unforgettable stories and photographs from history's greatest conflict, Neil Kagan, Stephen G. Hyslop
- Beyond band of brothers, [the war memoirs of Major Dick Winters], Dick Winters ; with Cole C. Kingseed
- My private war, liberated body, captive mind : a World War II POW's journey, Norman Bussel
- An album of memories, personal histories from The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Radioman, an eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and World War II in the Pacific, [edited by] Carol Edgemon Hipperson
- Lost in Tibet, the untold story of five American airmen, a doomed plane, and the will to survive, Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt
- Code Burgundy, the long escape, by John Katsaros
- Muriel's war, an American heiress in the Nazi resistance, Sheila Isenberg
- The greatest war, Americans in combat, 1941-1945, Gerald Astor
- Weller's war, a legendary foreign correspondent's saga of World War II on five continents, George Weller ; edited by Anthony Weller
- Roi Ottley's World War II, the lost diary of an African American journalist, edited with an introduction by Mark A. Huddle
- My war, Andy Rooney
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Yank, the story of World War II as written by the soldiers, by the editors of Yank, the Army weekly ; with a new foreword by Franklin S. Forsberg. --
- Behind the lines, the oral history of Special Operations in World War II, Russell Miller
- The raft
- Brave men, gentle heroes, American fathers and sons in World War II and Vietnam, Michael Takiff
- Jump commander, in combat with the 82nd Airborne in World War II, Mark Alexander and John Sparry
- No surrender, a World War II memoir, James Sheeran
- Never will we forget, oral histories of World War II, Marilyn Mayer Culpepper
- Journey out of darkness, the real story of American heroes in Hitler's POW camps : an oral history, Hal LaCroix ; photographs by Jorg Meyer
- Out of the depths, an unforgettable WWII story of survival, courage, and the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, Edgar Harrell, USMC with David Harrell
- My queer war, James Lord
- The greatest generation speaks, letters and reflections, Tom Brokaw
- The last good war, the faces and voices of World War II, [photographs by] Thomas Sanders ; text by Veronica Kavass ; introduction by Hampton Sides ; edited by Katrina Fried & Gavin O'Connor
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