Black Edelweiss

First Light

Geoffrey Wellum · 352 pages

"Geoffry Wellum tells the ... true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world has ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a 'pupil pilot' at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his fervor to fly, he gave little thought to the coming war"--Jacket.

If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story

George Wilson · 288 pages

first hand account of platoon leader with 4th infantry division from normandy to the siegfried line during last 9 months of the war. describes almost continuous combat from the infantryman's perspective. considered one of the best of its type. prose is unusually excellent for the genre. no false heroics. extremely realistic, holding back no details of the gore and misery of combat.

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

Alistair Urquhart

Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"

Don Malarkey, Bob Welch · 282 pages

Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper, and lost his best friend during the nightmarish engagement at Bastogne. Drafted in 1942, Malarkey became one of the one-in-six soldiers who earned their Eagle wings. He went to England in 1943 to provide cover on the ground

Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

Edgar Harrell, David Harrell · 189 pages

"A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis"--

Iron Coffins: A personal account of the German U-boat battles of World War II

Herbert A. Werner · 366 pages

Because I was one of the few U-boat commanders who fought through most of the war and who managed to survive, I felt it was my duty to my fallen comrades to set the record straight. Very much to the point, duty was the first and last word in the lexicon of the U-boat men; and, remarks to the contrary notwithstanding, we did our duty with a correct gallantry unsurpassed in any branch of service on

Quartered Safe Out Here

George MacDonald Fraser · 264 pages

In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front

Gottlob Herbert Bidermann · 344 pages

Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949

Siegfried Knappe, Ted Brusaw · 384 pages

An uncommonly reflective and illuminating memoir by a German officer who served on virtually all fronts in Europe, Soldat offers a unique inside look at the German side of World War II and a world in ruins. As military history, Soldat is a rich vein of valuable ore, thanks to Siegfried Knappe's eyewitness participation in so many crucial and significant campaigns of the war--including the despera

All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor

Donald Stratton, Ken Gire · 320 pages

A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles. The most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of Pearl Harbor, the first memoir ever published by a USS Arizona survivor

Samurai!

Saburo Sakai · 382 pages

Saburo Sakai was Japan's greatest fighter pilot to survive World War II. A veteran of more than two hundred dogfights, Sakai reportedly shot down sixty-four Allied planes, but he is best known for flying his crippled Zero nearly 600 miles to safety while partially paralyzed and nearly blind from multiple wounds.

To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive

Ernest Gordon · 240 pages

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Gregory Boyington · 384 pages

The author's experiences in the United States Air Force during the 1939-1945 War.

Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

David M. Crook, Richard Overy · 191 pages

Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot

Brian Lane · 255 pages

A Soldier's Story

Omar Nelson Bradley · 618 pages

Japanese Destroyer Captain

Tameichi Hara · 310 pages

**(from back cover)** This highly regarded war memoir was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the 1960s and has long been treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The author was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the "Unsinkable Captain." A hero to his count

Crusade in Europe

Dwight D. Eisenhower · 559 pages

Within the pages of this book the single most important military figure of World War II has written the story that is destined to become the single most important record of that conflict. Here, from the hand of the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, is the complete story of the war as Eisenhower planned it and lived it. Through his eyes you can now see the whole gigantic drama of the war -- t

The Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer · 560 pages

'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?': A Confrontation in the Desert

Spike Milligan

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila · 320 pages

Panzer Leader

Heinz Guderian · 528 pages

Company Commander

Charles B. MacDonald · 293 pages

Three Came Home

Agnes Newton Keith · 304 pages

"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was