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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.
Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier; Robert A. Heinlein, Lt., graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Served in U.S. Navy aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Roper (DD-147), Philadelphia Navy Yard (Stranger in a Strange Land) Joseph Heller, served in 12th Air Force ; Herman Wouk, served in the Navy, Pacific (The Caine Mutiny)
Frederick Maurice – soldier, military writer; Maurice of Nassau; Gordon McCormick – theorist on the "Magic Diamond" model of counter-insurgency; Steven Metz; Billy Mitchell; Helmuth von Moltke the Elder – theorist and strategist; "father" of mission-type tactics and the German field manual for unit commanders; François-Henri de Montmorency
A Soldier Reports by GEN William C. Westmoreland; A Hundred Miles of Bad Road by D. W. Birdwell & K. W. Nolan; The Army and Vietnam by Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. Battle For Hue, Tet 1968 by Keith Nolan; Bell UH-1 Huey "Slicks" 1962-75 by Chris Bishop; Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden; Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
"Dawn's Last Light" (written as John G. Hemry) appearing in By Other Means, edited by Mike McPhail and published by Dark Quest Books [8] Stark's War (2000-2002) series (written as John G. Hemry), a trilogy covering a conflict between US Army soldiers and their leadership during a campaign that takes place on the Moon.
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of a forbidden love between two gay men. ... a World War II soldier and his male sweetheart emerged ...
Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) was a United States Marine, university professor, and author.His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by ...
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.