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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 tent was set up on the grounds of Frederick's Rose Hill Manor, part of a World War II weekend at the manor. The event featured exhibits and living historians, including Groff, as well as a car ...
November is a big month for one Boynton Beach man.. Every Veterans Day, 99-year-old Murray Schwartz reflects on his time as the lead navigator aboard a B-24 bomber during World War II.
The Second World War can be read by students of the period as a memoir by a leading participant, rather than a comprehensive history by a professional and detached historian. The Second World War, particularly the period from 1940 to 1942 when Britain fought with the support of the Empire and a few Allies, was the climax of Churchill's career ...
BBC WW2 People's War is an online public history archive of World War II memories collected and published by the BBC.The project took input from June 2003 to January 2006, with the final archive holding 47,000 written testimonies and 14,000 photographs from members of the public, intertwined around 144 events.
Following his retirement from military service in 1970, Bochkay visited his former WWII base at RAF Leiston. Noting in a letter his World War II memories at the base and how derelict it had become 25 years after the end of the war, Bochkay concluded the letter with the comment, "Have a good trip if you go to Leiston, and don't be ashamed to cry."
The Second World War Experience Centre, based in Otley, West Yorkshire, England, is a registered charity and museum/archive which was set up in 1998 to preserve personal memories of the Second World War before they are lost forever. The archive is international in scope and holds letters, diaries, photographs and papers donated by individuals ...
Allies in Memory: World War II and the Politics of Transatlantic Commemoration, c. 1941–2001 (Cambridge UP, 2015). Eley, Geoff. "Finding the People's War: Film, British Collective Memories and World War II" American Historical Review 106#3 (2001), 818–38, Evans, Martin and Kenn Lunn, eds. War and Memory in the 20th Century (1997).