China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II

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

Gottlob Herbert Bidermann · 344 pages

Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

Gunter K. Koschorrek · 288 pages

And No Birds Sang

Farley Mowat · 250 pages

The harrowing account of young Farley Mowat's transformation form a patriotic boy into a hardened, weary soldier of World War II.

Dresden: A Survivor's Story

Victor Gregg · 64 pages

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"--

Helmet for my Pillow

Robert Leckie · 234 pages

This is a real story of a Marine's ordeal fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific during World Two. Amazing stories reveals what Marine Combat was like during the Island Campaign that took so many lives of Japanese and Americans.

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.

Black Edelweiss

Johann Voss · 224 pages

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

Alistair Urquhart

The Sergeant in the Snow

Mario Rigoni Stern · 157 pages

Quartered Safe Out Here

George MacDonald Fraser · 264 pages

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.

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

The Forgotten Soldier

Guy Sajer · 560 pages

The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II

Denis Avey · 272 pages

Two Generals

Scott Chantler

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose · 336 pages

Follows the 101st Airbone as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe to the end of World War II.

The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

Frederick Downs · 240 pages

We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers

Marcus Brotherton

From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers.They were the men of the now-legendary Easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on DDay and, later, Operation Market Garden. They fought their way through Belgium, France, and Germany, survived overwhelming odds, liberated concentration c

Flags of Our Fathers

James D. Bradley, Ron Powers · 379 pages

In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumphs, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that as come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS In February 1945, Am

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

Tim O'Brien · 208 pages

A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties.

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

Alex Kershaw · 368 pages

Overview: "It was a cold December morning in 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest of Belgium. Eighteen men of a small intelligence platoon commanded by twenty-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck were huddled in their foxholes, desperately trying to keep warm. Suddenly the early morning silence was broken by the roar of a huge artillery bombardment. Hitler had launched his bold and risky offensive against