World War II Combat Memoirs (nonfiction)
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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
by:
George Wilson
4.23 avg rating — 3,877 ratings 
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
by:
Robert Leckie
4.23 avg rating — 24,385 ratings 
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Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
by:
Brent E. Jones
4.44 avg rating — 239 ratings 6. 
A Thousand Shall Fall: The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two
by:
Murray Peden
4.57 avg rating — 168 ratings 
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East 4.53 avg rating — 5,332 ratings
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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich 4.13 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
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Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949
by:
Siegfried Knappe
4.13 avg rating — 1,907 ratings 12. 
I Marched with Patton: A Firsthand Account of World War II Alongside One of the U.S. Army's Greatest Generals
by:
Frank Sisson
3.80 avg rating — 451 ratings 
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They Call It Pacific: An Eye-Witness Story of Our War Against Japan from Bataan to the Solomons
by:
Clark Lee
4.39 avg rating — 565 ratings 
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82 Days on Okinawa: One American's Unforgettable Firsthand Account of the Pacific War's Greatest Battle
by:
Art Shaw
3.79 avg rating — 639 ratings 
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Bedpan Commando: The Story of a Combat Nurse During World War II
by:
June Wandrey
4.34 avg rating — 344 ratings 22. 
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To War Without Arms: The D-Day Diary of an Army Chaplain did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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You'll Be Sor-ree: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War
by:
Sid Phillips
4.21 avg rating — 578 ratings 
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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
by:
Eugene B. Sledge
4.29 avg rating — 1,445 ratings 26. 
The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hurtgen Forest
by:
Chris J. Hartley
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings 28. 
Journals of War: Coming of Age with the 104th Infantry During World War II
by:
E.J. McCully
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Torpedo Squadron Four - A Cockpit View of World War II (Air Group 4 History)
by:
Gerald W. Thomas
3.65 avg rating — 132 ratings 31. 
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To the Fire of Normandy and Beyond: Behind Enemy Lines during World War II
by:
Frank Kozol
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 33. 
Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers
by:
Lynn Compton
4.07 avg rating — 2,148 ratings 33. 
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Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific
by:
Robert C. Dick
4.09 avg rating — 187 ratings 35. 
Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Never Call Me a Hero: A Legendary American Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway 4.45 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Season of Infamy: A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945
by:
Charles Rist
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 43. 
All the Gallant Men: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
by:
Donald Stratton
4.50 avg rating — 4,419 ratings 
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Waiting for Peace: The Journals & Correspondence of a World War II Medic 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Slightly Out of Focus: The Legendary Photojournalist's Illustrated Memoir of World War II
by:
Robert Capa
4.40 avg rating — 2,057 ratings 
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Easy Company Soldier: The Legendary Battles of a Sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers"
by:
Don Malarkey
4.31 avg rating — 4,695 ratings 52. 
The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45
by:
Paul Fussell
3.92 avg rating — 621 ratings 53. 
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
by:
Paul Fussell
4.16 avg rating — 758 ratings