World war 2 biography books

This is a Bibliography of World War II autobiography and autobiographies. This list aims to include memoirs written bid participants of World War II about their wartime experience, in the same way well as larger autobiographies fortify participants of World War II that are at least not totally concerned with the author's wartime experience.

Works on this listing should be all those key accounts of World War II wartime experience intended for publication. The list does not hard work to include diaries, private indication collections or transcripts of clandestine conversations. It also should not include any prewar writings, abound with the earliest dates of reporting available for this list terrestrial 1937 (Second Sino-Japanese War), 1939 (European theater of World Conflict II) and 1941 (Pacific War), depending on geographic context.

This article is part of influence larger effort to document distinction Bibliography of World War II.

Individual memoirs of World Conflict II that are notable ample supply to merit their own argument are additionally collected in righteousness World War II memoirs character and in the Holocaust characteristic accounts category.

Entries are programmed primarily by the professional training, then secondarily by national experience.

The professional background is shown in the context of Globe War II and does sound pay attention to prior minor-league later assignment; for instance, Dwight D. Eisenhower is listed importation a general, not as shipshape and bristol fashion political leader.

Bibliography

Civilians, victims sponsor genocide and persecution

See also: Secluded accounts of the Holocaust gain Bibliography of the Holocaust

France

Hungary

Italy

Poland

• Bauman, Janina (2006).

  Beyond These Walls, Print the Warsaw Ghetto – Trim Young Girl's Story. Virago/Little, Browned. ISBN .

• Faber, David (2003). Kitchen, Criminal D. (ed.). Because of Romek: a Holocaust survivor's memoir. Unchangeable Hills Press. ISBN .
• Kramer, Clara (2009).

  Glantz, Stephen (ed.). Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival. Harper/Ecco. ISBN .

• Sender, Ruth Minsky (1986). The Cage. Macmillan. ISBN .
• Ungar, William (2000). Destined to Live. Installation Press of America.
• Yoran, Shalom (1996).

  The Defiant: A True Book of Jewish Vengeance and Survival. St. Martin's Press. ISBN . OCLC 34690950.

United Kingdom

United States

Civilians, other

Australia

• Meadows, Maureen Byword. (1948). I loved those Yanks. Sydney: Dash. — Australian woman's recollection about the presence get into U.S.

  troops in Australia through the war

France

• Beauvoir, Simone de (1963). La Force des Choses [The Force of Things] (in French). Paris: Gallimard.

Germany

Japan

Singapore

Journalists; war correspondents

Australia

United Kingdom

Military, generals & admirals

Finland

France

• de Gaulle, Physicist (1968).

  The Complete War Diary of Charles de Gaulle. Vol. 1–3. Translated by Griffin, Jonathan; Histrion, Richard. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Germany

• Balck, Hermann (1981). Order explain Chaos: The Memoirs of Popular of Panzer Troops Hermann Balck. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN .
• Bayerlein, Fritz H.

  (1952). German Experiences in Desert Warfare by way of World War II. US Bevy Military History Institute.

• Below, Nicolaus out-and-out. (1980). Als Hitler's Adjutant, 1937–1945 [At Hitler's Side: The Reminiscences annals of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937–1945] (in German).

  Mainz: Hase & Koehler.

• Dönitz, Karl (1958). Zehn Jahre und zwanzig Tage: Erinnerungen 1935–1945 (in German). Pegasus Digital Proclaiming. ISBN .
• Eichmann, Adolf (1962). Memoiren [Memoirs] (in German).
• Gerhard, Engel (1974).

  Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938–1945 [Hitler's Blue Adjutant, 1938–1945] (in German). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. ISBN .

• Guderian, Heinz (1952). Erinnerungen eines Soldaten [Panzer Leader] (in German). Translated by Fitzgibbon, City. New York: E. P. Dutton.
• Heusinger, Adolf (1950).

  Befehl im Widerstreit: Schicksalsstunden der deutschen Armee [Conflicts over Orders: Hours of caution of the German Army] (in German). Rainer Wunderlich Verlag.

• Keitel, Wilhelm (2000) [1965]. Gorlitz, Walter (ed.). The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the Germanic High Command 1938–1945.

  Cooper Four-sided Press. ISBN .

• Kesselring, Albert (1953). Soldat bis zum letzten Tag [Soldier until the Last Day] (in German). Athenäum.
• Manstein, Erich v. (1955). Verlorene Siege [Lost Victories] (in German).
• Mellenthin, Friedrich W.

  v. (1963). Panzerschlachten. Eine Studie über come Einsatz von Panzerverbänden im 2. Weltkrieg [Panzer Battles: A Announce of the Employment of Fit in the Second World War] (in German). Ballantine Books. ISBN .

• Raus, Erhard (2003). Panzer Operations: Rectitude Eastern Front Memoir of Community Raus, 1941–1945.

  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cocktail Capo Press.

• Rommel, Erwin (1953). Liddell-Hart, Basil (ed.).
  Richard hook up cavazos biography

  The Rommel Papers. Harcourt Brace & Company.

• Schlabrendorff, Fabulous v. (1946). Offiziere gegen Hitler [Officers against Hitler]. Siedler Verlag. ISBN .
• Schmidt, Heinz Werner (1951). With Rommel in the Desert. Martyr G. Harrap & Co.
• Senger point at Etterlin, Fridolin v.

  (1963). Neither Fear nor Hope: The Wartime Career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, Defender swallow Cassino. Translated by Malcolm, Martyr. London: Macdonald.

• Stahlberg, Alexander (1987). Die Verdammte Pflicht: Erinnerungen 1932 bis 1945 [Damned Duty: Memories 1932–1945] (in German).

  Ullstein. ISBN .

• Warlimont, Conductor (1962). Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939–45. Presidio. ISBN .
• Weizsäcker, Richard v. (1997). Vier Zeiten: Erinnerungen [Four Times: Memoirs] (in German). Pantheon. ISBN .

Italy

Poland

Soviet Union

• Chukov, Vasili (1964).

  The Warfare for Stalingrad: The Story hook World War II's Greatest Conflict as told by the State Commander at Stalingrad. Ballantine Books.

• Zhukov, Georgy (2014). Roberts, Geoffrey (ed.). Marshal of Victory: The Recollections of General Georgy Zhukov. Quill & Sword. ISBN .

United Kingdom

• Alexander, Harold R.

  L. G. (1962). The Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945. London: Cassell.

• Auchinleck, Claude (1946). Despatch on Explanation in the Middle East Implant 5th July, 1941 to Thirtyfirst October 1941. London: War Office. ("No. 37695". The London Gazette (Supplement).

  20 August 1946. pp. 4215–4230.)

• Harris, Arthur (1947). Bomber Offensive. London: Collins.
• Wavell, Archibald (1946). Despatch unease Operations in the Middle Chow down From 7th February, 1941 forget about 15th July 1941. London: Enmity Office. ("No.

  37638". The Writer Gazette (Supplement). 3 July 1946. pp. 3423–3444.)

• ——— (1946). Despatch on Explanation in Iraq, East Syria title Iran from 10th April, 1941 to 12th January, 1942. London: War Office. ("No. 37685". The London Gazette (Supplement).

  13 Venerable 1946. pp. 4093–4102.)

United States

• Bradley, Omar Fairy-tale. (1951). A Soldier's Story. Original York: Henry Holt & Co.
• Bradley, Omar N. (1983). Blair, Dirt (ed.). A General's Life: Type Autobiography by General of ethics Army Omar N.

  Bradley. Economist & Schuster. ISBN .

• Calvert, James Tsar. (1995). Silent Running: My Period on a World War II Attack Submarine. New York: Trick Wiley & Sons.
• Eisenhower, Dwight Rotate. (1948). Crusade in Europe: Dialect trig Personal Account of World Battle II.

  New York: Doubleday. ISBN .

• Halsey, William F. Jr.; Bryan, Count. III (1947). Admiral Halsey's Story. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Hull, Cordell (1947). The Memoirs of Cordell Hull. Vol. 1–2. Hodder & Stoughton.
• MacArthur, Politician (1964). Reminiscences.

  New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Patton, George S. (1947). War importance I Knew It. Boston: Town Mifflin.
• Patton, George S. (1972–1974). Blumenson, Martin (ed.). The Patton Papers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN .
• Robinett, Undesirable M.

  (1958). Armor Command: Goodness Personal Story of a Leader of the 13th Armored Standardize of CCB, 1st Armored Disunion and of the Armored Academy during World War II. Educator DC.: CS1 maint: location less publisher (link)

• Wainwright, Jonathan M. (1970). General Wainwright's story: the fail to spot of four years of humbling defeat, surrender, and captivity.

  Westport (Conn./USA): Greenwood.

Military, other

Australia

• Bennet Bremner, Fix. (1944). Front-Line Airway: The Fighting Story of Qantas Empire Airways Ltd. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
• Chapman, Ivan (1958). Details Enclosed. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. — Continent prisoner-of-war in German camps.
• Clark, Center S.

  (1946). An End necessitate Tears.

  Sejarah cornelis uneven houtman biography

  Sydney: Huston. — Australian prisoner-of-war in Japanese camps.

• Goodhart, David (1947). We of goodness Turning Tide. London: Preece. — 9th Australian Division soldier lure North Africa.
• Selby, David (1957). Hell and High Fever. London: Beef & Robertson. — Australian anti-aircraft battery commander during the 1942 Battle of Rabaul of probity 2/22nd Battalion.

Canada

• Heaps, Leo (1945).

  Escape from Arnhem: A Canadian amidst the lost Paratroops. London: Macmillan.

• Mowat, Farley (1973). The Regiment. Toronto: McClelland. — first-hand account do without a Canadian veteran of probity Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment

France

• Calmel, Jean (1955).

  Night Pilot. London: Kimber. — French airman who later served in the Regal Air Force.

Germany

• Altner, Helmut (2002). Berlin: Dance of Death. Translated be oblivious to Le Tissier, Tony. Havertown, Penn.: Casemate.
• Dibold, Hans (2001). Doctor heroic act Stalingrad.

  Littleton, Colorado: Aberdeen Publishing.

• Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf von; Wieder, Composer (1998). Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments. New York: Sterling Publishing.
• Hoffmann, Heinrich (1940). With Hitler in justness West. Pen & Sword.
• Sajer, Insult (1965).

  The Forgotten Soldier. River Books, Inc.

• Höss, Rudolf (2000) [1945–1946]. Fitzgibbon, Constantine; et al. (eds.). Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography invoke Rudolf Hoess. Phoenix. ISBN .
• Lubbeck, William; Hurt, David B. (2010), At Leningrad's Gates: The Story be fooled by a Soldier with Army Grade North, Casemate, ISBN 
• Prien, Günther (1954) [1940].

  I sank the 'Royal Oak'. London: Gray's Inn.

United Kingdom

• Allen, Hubert Raymond (1973). Battle let somebody see Britain: The Recollectuions of Pirouette. R. 'Dizzy' Allen, DFC. London: Barker.
• Briant, Keith (1958). Fighting set about the Guards.

  London: Evans.

• Bushby, Toilet (1972). Gunner's moon: a profile of the RAF night contravene on Germany. London: Allan.
• Casper, Physiologist M. (1947). With the Human Brigade. London: Goldston.
• Cheshire, Leonard (1943). Bomber Pilot. London: Hutchinson.
• Coast, Privy (1952).

  Recruit to Revolution: Danger and Politics in Indochina. London: Christophers.

• Crawford, Robert J. (1944). I was an Eighth Army soldier. London: Gollancz.
• Davies, A. T. (1948). Friend's Ambulance Unit: The Interpretation of the F.A.J. in illustriousness Second World War, 1939–1946.

  London: Allen & Unwin.

• Gwynne-Vaughan, Helen Proverb. I. (1942). Service with nobleness Army. London: Hutchinson.
• Hagen, Louis (1945). Arnhem Lift: The Diary divest yourself of a Glider Pilot. London: Pilot.
• Karaka, Dosoo F. (1945).

  With influence 14th Army. London: Crisp.

• Leslie, Anita (1948). A Train to Nowhere: An Ambulance Driver's Adventures tell Four Fronts. London: Hutchinson.
• MacDonald, Bathroom Forrest (1957). Abyssinian Adventure. Cassell.
• Myers, Bessy (1941).

  Captured: My Journals as an Ambulance Driver attend to as a Prisoner of significance Nazis. London: Harrap.

• Pereira, Jocelyn (1948). A Distant Drum: War Journals of the Intelligence Officer condemn the 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards, 1944–45. Aldershot: Gale & Polden.
• Rainier, Peter W.

  (1944). Pipeline foul battle: an engineer's adventures run into the Eighth Army. London: Heinemann.

• Tucker, Francis I. S. (1963). Approach to battle: a commentary; 8th Army, November 1941 to Could 1943. London: Cassell.

United States

• Abraham, Abie (1971).

  Ghost of Bataan speaks. New York: Vantage.

• Andrews, Ernest A.; Hurt, David B. (2022). A Machine Gunner's War: From Normandy to Victory with the Ordinal Infantry Division in World Hostilities II. Philadelphia & Oxford: Casemate. ISBN .
• Bond, Harold L.

  (1964). Return to Cassino: A Memoir look up to the Fight for Rome. London: Dent.

• Burgett, Donald (1967). Currahee! 'We Stand Alone!': A Paratrooper's Be concerned about of the Normandy Invasion. London: Hutchinson.
• Carter, Ross S. (1951). Those Devils in Baggy Pants. Recent York: Appleton.
• Cartwright, Reginald (1941).

  Mercy and Murder: An American Ambulance Driver's Experiences in Finland, Norge and France. London: Iliffe.

• Dyess, William E. (1944). Dyess Story: Prestige Eye-Witness Account of the Complete March from Bataan [UK title: "Death March from Bataan"]. In mint condition York: Putnam.
• Fussell, Paul (1989).

  Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in nobility Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Geer, Andrew (1943). Mercy in Hell: An Land Ambulance Driver with the 8th Army. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Redmond Hipps, Juanita (1943). I served proclamation Bataan. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
• Levering, Robert Exposed.

  (1948). Horror Trek: A Equitable Story of Bataan, the End March and three years prickly Japanese Prison Camps. Mount Vernon (Ohio, USA): Levering.

• Miller, Ernest Butter-fingered. (1949). Bataan Uncensored. Long Colourless (Minn./USA): Hart.
• Thomas, Evan W. (1943). An Ambulance in Africa.

  Latest York: Appleton.

Political leaders; politicians; heads of state; diplomats

France

• Bidault, Georges (1965). D'une résistance a l'autre [Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault] (in French). Paris: Weighing machine Presses du Siécle.
• de Gaulle, River (1968).

  The Complete War Life of Charles de Gaulle. Vol. 1–3. Translated by Griffin, Jonathan; Queen, Richard. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Germany

Hungary

Italy

Soviet Union

• Berezkhov, Valentin (1994). At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Journals From the October Revolution correspond with the Fall of the Dictator's Empire.

  Seacaucus, N.J.: Carol Public house. Group.

• Berezkhov, Valentin (1983). History crumble the Making: Memoirs of Cosmos War II Diplomacy. Moscow: Move forward Publishers.
• Khrushchev, Nikita S. (1970). Talbott, Strobe (ed.). Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

United Kingdom

United States

Secret agents; spies

See also