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This is a Bibliography of World War II memoirs and autobiographies. This list aims to include memoirs written by participants of World War II about their wartime experience, as well as larger autobiographies of participants of World War II that are at least partially concerned with the author's wartime experience.
The following lists should include works of secondary literature that are concerned mainly with the origins of World War II in general or with the entry into World War II by one particular country. Aldrich, Richard J. (1993). The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942. New ...
After the draft was reinstated in the U.S. in 1940, millions of young soldiers found themselves in barracks and training camps, where they were often bored.The head of the Army's Library Section, Raymond L. Trautman, sought to remedy this by purchasing one book per soldier, but when that failed, librarians launched a nationwide book collection campaign.
The Second World War is a history of the period from the end of the First World War to July 1945, written by Winston Churchill.Churchill labelled the "moral of the work" as follows: "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Goodwill". [2]
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II is a 1998 memoir by Belton Y. Cooper. The book relates Cooper's experiences during World War II and puts forth an argument against the US Army's use of the M4 Sherman tank during the war instead of the M26 Pershing.
Despite critiquing the length of the book, Frankland also criticised the lack of detail around air deception during the war. [8] Historian Max Hastings called the book a "worthy celebration" of British deception and praised Holt's avoidance of the sensational. [1] M. R. D. Foot said of the book, "as good as it is long." [9]
Scorched Earth (Rosen book) The Second World War (book) Shadow of Suribachi; Shattered Sword; Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine; Soldiers and Slaves; The Splendid and the Vile; Squadron 303 (book) Stalin's Missed Chance; Stalingrad (Beevor book) Stopped at Stalingrad; The Storm of War; Strange Defeat; Suicide (Suvorov ...
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 is a 2011 book by historian Max Hastings, covering the history of World War II and complementing Hastings' earlier works Overlord, Armageddon and Nemesis. In the United States, it was published under the title Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. [1]