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The Broken Token's WW 2 Book Hit Parade...

The following is a bibliography to use as a guide to memoirs, essays and general histories on the Second World War. It is suggestive rather than definitive, a list for the interested reader to begin with and from which to examine the historical and political contexts of the works, as well as their authors. Book titles noted are available at academic and public libraries.
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civivilization (Nicholson Baker)
Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civivilization
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Nicholson Baker
The Second World War: A People's History (Joanna Bourke)
The Second World War: A People's History
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Joanna Bourke
The Battle for History: Re-Fighting World War II (John Keegan)
The Battle for History: Re-Fighting World War II
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John Keegan
The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II (Gregory A. Freeman)
The Last Mission of the Wham Bam Boys: Courage, Tragedy, and Justice in World War II
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Gregory A. Freeman
Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front (Konstantin Pleshakov)
Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front
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Konstantin Pleshakov
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture (Ronald M. Smelser and Edward J. Davies)
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture
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Ronald M. Smelser and Edward J. Davies
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (William Manchester)
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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William Manchester
Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific (Eric M. Bergerud)
Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific
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Eric M. Bergerud
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (John W. Dower)
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
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John W. Dower
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War (Dale Maharidge)
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War
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Dale Maharidge
Into the Valley: A Skirmish of the Marines (John Hersey)
Into the Valley: A Skirmish of the Marines
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John Hersey
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945 (Evan Thomas)
Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941-1945
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Evan Thomas
Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator (Samuel Lynn Hynes)
Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator
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Samuel Lynn Hynes
Nanette (Edwards Park)
Nanette
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Edwards Park
With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa (E. B. Sledge)
With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa
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E. B. Sledge
Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story (Burkard Müllenheim-Rechberg, Freiherr Von)
Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story
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Burkard Müllenheim-Rechberg, Freiherr Von
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey (Alvin B. Kernan)
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey
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Alvin B. Kernan
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (Doug Stanton)
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
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Doug Stanton
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (James D. Hornfischer)
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
19
James D. Hornfischer
On Board the USS Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn (James A. Dunn & Mansel G. Blackford)
On Board the USS Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn
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James A. Dunn & Mansel G. Blackford
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons (Alvin B. Kernan)
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons
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Alvin B. Kernan
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway -- The Great Naval Battles as Seen Thr (Tameichi Hara)
Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway -- The Great Naval Battles as Seen Thr
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Tameichi Hara
Take Her Deep!: A Submarine Against Japan in World War II (I. J. Galantin)
Take Her Deep!: A Submarine Against Japan in World War II
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I. J. Galantin
Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific (Eric M. Bergerud)
Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific
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Eric M. Bergerud
Wolfsangel: A German City on Trial, 1945-48 (August J. Nigro)
Wolfsangel: A German City on Trial, 1945-48
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August J. Nigro
Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War (Mark K. Wells)
Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War
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Mark K. Wells
I Flew for the Führer (Heinz Knoke)
I Flew for the Führer
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Heinz Knoke
Flight to Arras (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
Flight to Arras
28
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Baa Baa, Black Sheep (Gregory Boyington)
Baa Baa, Black Sheep
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Gregory Boyington
World War II Fighter-Bomber Pilot (Bill Colgan)
World War II Fighter-Bomber Pilot
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Bill Colgan
50 Mission Crush (Donald R. Currier)
50 Mission Crush
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Donald R. Currier
Going Back: A Navy Airman in the Pacific War (Charles Furey)
Going Back: A Navy Airman in the Pacific War
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Charles Furey
Black Cat Raiders of WW II (Richard C. Knott)
Black Cat Raiders of WW II
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Richard C. Knott
Lady's Men: The Story of World War II's Mystery Bomber and Her Crew (Mario Martinez)
Lady's Men: The Story of World War II's Mystery Bomber and Her Crew
34
Mario Martinez
Target Ploesti: View From a Bombsight (Leroy W. Newby)
Target Ploesti: View From a Bombsight
35
Leroy W. Newby
Chippewa Chief in World War II: The Survival Story of Oliver Rasmussen in Japan (Donald J. Norton)
Chippewa Chief in World War II: The Survival Story of Oliver Rasmussen in Japan
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Donald J. Norton
The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War (Adam Nossiter)
The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War
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Adam Nossiter
The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait (Walter G. Winslow)
The Ghost That Died at Sunda Strait
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Walter G. Winslow
American Samurai: Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-19 (Craig M. Cameron)
American Samurai: Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-19
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Craig M. Cameron
Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC (Jon T. Hoffman)
Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC
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Jon T. Hoffman
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