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Position:Home>Books & Authors> WWII Memoirs?Question: WWII Memoirs!? Over the summer I am required to read any memoir/autobiography!. The only subject I’m interested in reading about is WWII and I am in need of suggestions of any WWII memoirs (1st person) whether it be related to the pacific, German soldiers, snipers, marines, Russia, USSR, ect!. Any aspect of WWII basically!. Thanks in advance!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Look up Eisenhower: Solider and President!. Here's another one called The Supreme Commander; the war years of General Dwight D!. Eisenhower, both are by Stephen E!. Ambrose!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Well my favorite WWII book EVER is "Maus", a nonfiction graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about his father, Vladek, in Auschwitz!. That's a biography, though, not a memoir!.!.!.but you should still read it! The best memoir I've read recently is Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis": her account of growing up as a little girl in revolutionary Iran!. Not about WW2, but it's terrific!Www@QuestionHome@Com One of the greatest men of all times was President Franklin D!. Roosevelt!. He suffered polio while being the president!. Brought the US into the war after Pearl Harbor!. There is a lot of"meat" here for your report!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "A Full Life" by George S!. Patton "The Emperor General: A Biography of Douglas MacArthur" g-day!Www@QuestionHome@Com With The Old Breed by E!.B!.Sledge(Marine at Peleliu memoir) and/or The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer(German on the Eastern Front memoir) !. Both are well regarded as classics !. :0)Www@QuestionHome@Com "citizen soldiers" or "war as i knew it" by pattonWww@QuestionHome@Com I know you specified first person, but A Walk in Wilesden Lane is really a good World War II memoir!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Diary of Anne FrankWww@QuestionHome@Com Band of Brothers!. Pax-CWww@QuestionHome@Com |