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Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Diaries
All in actual books... I read a lot of WWII stuff before I got my PRS700.
Eisenhower - Crusade in Europe
Charles DeGaulle - War Memoirs
Raeder, Edward - Grand Admiral
Speer, Albert - Inside the Third Reich
MacArthur, Douglas - Reminiscences
Alanbrooke - Diaries (bit of a slog, this one..but interesting)
Moran, Lord - Churchill at War
Montgomery - Memoirs
Mussolini - My Rise and Fall
Shirer, William - Berlin Diary and of course Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Goebbels, Joseph - Final Entries (Diary entries from spring 1945)
Ciano, Galeazzo - Diary (haven't read this one yet)
Mannerheim, Carl - Memoirs (WWII and after in Finland)
Doenitz, Karl - Memoirs
Sonnenfeldt, Richard - Witness to Nuremberg
Clark, Mark - Calculated Risk
Bradley, Omar - A Soldiers Story
Other good stuff (not autobiographical):
Potter, Elmer - Nimitz
Sorley, Lewis - Thunderbolt (Abrams)
Irving, David - Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe
Meacham, Jon - Franklin and Winston
Reuth, Ralf - Goebbels
Padfield, Peter - Himmler
Hart, BH - The Rommel Papers
Colville, John - The Fringes of Power
Gamble, Bruce - Black Sheep One
Ambrose, Stephen - Eisenhower
Eberle, Henrik - The Hitler Book
Lee, Bruce - Marching Orders
Morrison, Samuel - History of US Naval Operations in WWII (15 volumes)
Manchester, William - The Arms of Krupp (last part covers WWII)
Brinkley, David - Washington Goes to War
Millar, George - Bruneval Raid
O'Neill, Richard - Suicide Squads
Ambrose, Stephen - Citizen Soldiers
Overy, Richard - Interrogations (transcripts of post-war interrogations..haven't read this one yet..)
Ambrose, Stephen - D-Day
Pyle, Ernie - Here is your war
Eisnehower - D-Day to VE Day: Eisenhower's report on the invasion of Europe
Glantz, David etc. - Hitler and His Generals (transcripts of military conferences...haven't read this one yet either)
Shirer, William - This is Berlin (pre-war Berlin)
Various: Reporting World War 2 (Library of America volume)
Miller, Russel - Behind the Lines
Binney, Marcus - The Women Who Lived for Danger
Beaven, Colin - Operation Jedburgh
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