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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 Unlikely Spy is a 1996 spy novel written by Daniel Silva, set during World War II. While some of the characters and events are fictional, the book is based on the real-life attempt by the Allies to use British intelligence to cover up the true plans for D-Day. The deception plan was called Operation Fortitude, and Double Cross also played a ...
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 ...
Guy Mouminoux (13 January 1927 – 11 January 2022), known by the pseudonym Guy Sajer, was a French writer and cartoonist who is best known as the author of the Second World War novel Le Soldat Oublié (1965, translated as The Forgotten Soldier), based on his experience serving in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front from 1942 to 1945, in the elite Großdeutschland Division.
The Liberation Trilogy is a series of military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. The first volume, An Army at Dawn, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for History [1] and was a New York Times best seller. [2]
Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 – 24 July 2007 [1]), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, [2] Ian Harding, [3] John Kerrigan, [4] Leo Kessler, [5] Klaus Konrad, [6] K.N. Kostov, [3] and Duncan Stirling.
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]
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas was the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent, called by the Germans "The White Rabbit" of World War II.He was given responsibilities by the British government in occupied Vichy France because he had lived in France during the interwar years and was fluent in French.