World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
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World War, 1939-1945
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- Silent running, my years on a World War II attack submarine, James F. Calvert ; foreword by Edward L. Beach
- Last heroes of D-Day, presented by Dan Snow, producer and director, Tim Dunn, a BBC/Discovery Channel co-production
- In enemy hands, personal accounts of those taken prisoner in World War II, Claire Swedberg
- D-Day, the greatest invasion-- a people's history, Dan van der Vat ; introduction by John S.D. Eisenhower
- World War II letters, a glimpse into the heart of the Second World War through the words of those who were fighting it, edited by Bill Adler with Tracy Quinn McLennan
- Counting the Days, POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific, Craig B. Smith
- Tank warfare in the Second World War, an oral history, George Forty
- The Ritchie boys, a film, by Christian Bauer ; a Tangram and Alliance Atlantis production ; in association with Bayerischer Rundfunk ... [and others] ; producers, Dagmar Biller, Donna Zuckerbrot
- Great escape, a Windfall Films production for Nova/WGBH Boston in association with Five ; writer/director, Mark Radice ; producer, David Dugan. Nazi prison escape / a Windfall Films production for Nova/WGBH and Channel 4 ; writers/producers/directors, Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones ... [et al.]
- Inferno, the world at war, 1939-1945, Max Hastings
- War of the century, when Hitler fought Stalin, Laurence Rees ; foreword by Ian Kershaw
- We must not forget, Holocaust stories of survival and resistance, Deborah Hopkinson
- The German war, a nation under arms, 1939-1945 : citizens and soldiers, Nicholas Stargardt
- An army in exile, the story of the Second Polish corps ..., with a foreword by Viscount Alexander of Tunis ... ; and an inroduction by Harold Macmillan ..
- Normandy's nightmare war, the French experience of Nazi occupation and allied bombing 1940-45, Douglas Boyd
- The war, stories of life and death from World War II, edited by Clint Willis
- Amherst Rotary goes to war, Amherst Rotary in World War II, edited by Mason I. Lowance
- Voices of valor, D-Day: June 6, 1944, Douglas Brinkley and Ronald J. Drez
- Cronkite's war, his World War II letters home, Walter Cronkite IV and Maurice Isserman ; [foreword by Tom Brokaw]
- A conspiracy of decency, the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II, Emmy E. Werner
- Voices from D-Day, Jonathan Bastable
- One man's journey, an autobiography, by Don McGregor
- Many kinds of courage, an oral history of World War II, by Richard Lidz
- The other victims, first-person stories of non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis, Ina R. Friedman
- D-Day, 6.6.44, reflections of courage, director, Richard Dale ; written by Andrew Bamfield ; producer, Tim Bradley ; a BBC-Discovery Channel co-production
- Eyewitness, D-Day, National Geographic
- The battle of the Atlantic, Hitler's gray wolves of the sea and the Allies' desperate struggle to defeat them, Andrew Williams
- Swansong 1945, a collective diary of the last days of the Third Reich, Walter Kempowski ; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
- Time machine, produced, written and directed by David deVries ; produced by Greystone Communications, Incorporated for the History Channel
- When can we go back to America?, voices of Japanese American incarceration during World War II, Susan H. Kamei ; foreword by Secretary Norman Y. Mineta
- Operation Tombola, Roy Farran
- Bomber boy, my life as a bomber pilot, Dereck French DFC & BAR ; edited by Dennis Newton
- A child's war, World War II through the eyes of children, by Kati David
- Wings of war, airmen of all nations tell their stories, 1939-1945, edited by Laddie Lucas
- We were there, directed by Jarod O'Flaherty ; produced by Flyrock Media
- Remember World War II, kids who survived tell their stories, [edited by] Dorinda Makanaōnalani Nicholson
- Crossing
- Apocalypse, World War II, CC&C Louis Vaudeville presents ; with the participation of France Télévisions ... [et al.] ; 6 films by Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle
- Helmet for my pillow, Robert Leckie ; [drawings by Fredric Finkelstein ; maps by Benjamin F. Klaessig and Alan McKnight]
- "The good war", an oral history of World War Two, Studs Terkel
- Inferno, the world at war, 1939-1945, Max Hastings
- Jane's battles with the Luftwaffe, Theo Boiten and Martin Bowman
- Nothing less than victory, Russell Miller
- Five days that shocked the world, eyewitness accounts from Europe at the end of World War II, Nicholas Best
- Typewriter battalion, dramatic front-line dispatches from World War II, edited by Jack Stenbuck ; introduction by Walter Cronkite
- Remember Pearl Harbor, American and Japanese survivors tell their stories, Thomas B. Allen ; [with a foreword by Robert D. Ballard]
- The apology, before it's too late, director, Tiffany Hsiung
- World War II remembered, by residents of Kendal at Hanover, Clinton C. Gardner, managing editor, editors, Jane Atwood Barlow ... [et al.]
- Voices from the second world war, stories of war as told to children of today
- Barbarossa through German eyes, the biggest invasion in history, Jonathan Trigg
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