WW2 Memoir/Biography Book Reviews

Title	Author	Reviewer	Review Date	Rev Date
17 Carnations	Andrew Morton	C. Peter Chen	26 Apr 2017	2017-04-26
A Better Comrade You Will Never Find	Helmut Schiebel	Dan K.	30 Oct 2011	2011-10-30
A Foot Soldier for Patton	Michael Bilder with James Bilder	C. Peter Chen	1 Oct 2014	2014-10-01
A Higher Call	Adam Makos with Larry Alexander	C. Peter Chen	4 Sep 2013	2013-09-04
A Lamb to Slaughter	Jan Montyn & Dirk Ayelt Kooiman	Dan K.	20 Oct 2012	2012-10-20
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy	Thomas Buergenthal	C. Peter Chen	24 Dec 2013	2013-12-24
A Mighty Fortress: Lead Bomber Over Europe	Charles Alling	David Stubblebine	26 Aug 2015	2015-08-26
A Shanghai American	Daniel S. Williams and Gerald A. Meehl	David Stubblebine	29 Jul 2024	2024-07-29
A Train in Winter	Caroline Moorehead	C. Peter Chen	17 Apr 2013	2013-04-17
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964	William Manchester	C. Peter Chen	7 Aug 2005	2005-08-07
American Prometheus	Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin	C. Peter Chen	20 Jan 2016	2016-01-20
An Artilleryman in Stalingrad	Dr. Wigand Wuster	Dan K.	18 Apr 2008	2008-04-18
Anne Frank Remembered	Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold	C. Peter Chen	12 Jun 2011	2011-06-12
Autobiography of a World War Two Tailhooker	Don Monson	David Stubblebine	18 Jun 2014	2014-06-18
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi	Thomas Weber	C. Peter Chen	9 Sep 2019	2019-09-09
Berlin Diary	William Shirer	C. Peter Chen	25 Dec 2012	2012-12-25
Beyond Band of Brothers	Dick Winters	C. Peter Chen	21 Nov 2011	2011-11-21
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy	Eric Metaxas	C. Peter Chen	15 Mar 2017	2017-03-15
Breaking the Silence: Reminiscences of a Hidden Child	Paul A. Schwarzbart	David Stubblebine	25 Jun 2014	2014-06-25
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends	William Guarnere and Edward Heffron with Robyn Post	C. Peter Chen	11 Mar 2013	2013-03-11
Brothers, Rivals, Victors	Jonathan Jordan	C. Peter Chen	28 Nov 2012	2012-11-28
Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC	Jon T. Hoffman	David Stubblebine	24 Feb 2013	2013-02-24
Churchill	Paul Johnson	C. Peter Chen	12 Jun 2012	2012-06-12
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom	Thomas Ricks	C. Peter Chen	29 Oct 2018	2018-10-29
Churchill: A Life, Part 1	Martin Gilbert	C. Peter Chen	10 Aug 2016	2016-08-10
Code Talker	Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila	C. Peter Chen	3 Jul 2012	2012-07-03
Counterfeiter	Moritz Nachtstern and Ragnar Arntzen	C. Peter Chen	1 Nov 2008	2008-11-01
Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey	Alvin Kernan	David Stubblebine	3 Mar 2012	2012-03-03
Crusade in Europe	Dwight D. Eisenhower	C. Peter Chen	30 Oct 2005	2005-10-30
Doing Battle	Paul Fussell	Bryan Hiatt	4 Sep 2005	2005-09-04
Don't Give Up, Don't Give In: Lessons from an Extraordinary Life	Louis Zamperini and David Rensin	C. Peter Chen	30 Nov 2016	2016-11-30
Easy Company Soldier	Don Malarkey with Bob Welch	C. Peter Chen	28 Jan 2015	2015-01-28
Eisenhower	John Wukovits	C. Peter Chen	3 Jan 2011	2011-01-03
Erwin Rommel	Pier Paolo Battistelli	C. Peter Chen	29 Sep 2010	2010-09-29
Escape from the Deep	Alex Kershaw	C. Peter Chen	25 Dec 2010	2010-12-25
Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign	Stanley Weintraub	C. Peter Chen	22 May 2013	2013-05-22
Flat-Bottom Odyssey: From North Africa to D-Day	Gene Jaeger	C. Peter Chen	12 Jan 2013	2013-01-12
Fogg in the Cockpit	Richard Fogg and Janet Fogg	C. Peter Chen	11 May 2012	2012-05-11
Franklin and Lucy	Joseph Persico	C. Peter Chen	19 Feb 2013	2013-02-19
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship	Jon Meacham	C. Peter Chen	27 Jun 2011	2011-06-27
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War	William Manchester	C. Peter Chen	11 Apr 2006	2006-04-11
Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu	Jim McEnery with Bill Sloan	C. Peter Chen	16 Jun 2012	2012-06-16
Helmet for My Pillow	Robert Leckie	C. Peter Chen	24 Apr 2010	2010-04-24
Helmet for My Pillow	Robert Leckie	Jimmy Lebel	1 Sep 2010	2010-09-01
Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Legendary Marine John Basilone	James Brady	C. Peter Chen	7 Jan 2015	2015-01-07
Hidden Figures	Margot Lee Shetterly	C. Peter Chen	23 Feb 2018	2018-02-23
Hitler's Last Levy in East Prussia 1944-45	Bruno Just	C. Peter Chen	12 Mar 2024	2024-03-12
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard	Rochus Misch	C. Peter Chen	1 Apr 2015	2015-04-01
In the Service of the Reich	Walter Görlitz	C. Peter Chen	14 May 2006	2006-05-14
Joe Rochefort's War	Elliot Carlson	C. Peter Chen	18 Aug 2012	2012-08-18
Jungvolk	Wilhelm Gehlen & Don Gregory	Dan K.	16 Aug 2009	2009-08-16
Killing Patton	Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard	C. Peter Chen	10 Feb 2016	2016-02-10
Letters from Nuremberg	Christopher Dodd and Lary Bloom	C. Peter Chen	12 Feb 2013	2013-02-12
Love, Tommy	Andrew Roberts	C. Peter Chen	8 Jun 2013	2013-06-08
Lucky's Life	Don J. Larson	David Stubblebine	22 Sep 2017	2017-09-22
MacArthur	Richard Frank	C. Peter Chen	7 Aug 2012	2012-08-07
Marine!: The Life of Chesty Puller, USMC (Ret.)	Burke Davis	David Stubblebine	23 Feb 2013	2013-02-23
My Father's Secret War: A Memoir	Lucinda Franks	C. Peter Chen	18 May 2016	2016-05-18
Never Call Me a Hero	N. Jack Kleiss	C. Peter Chen	8 Oct 2018	2018-10-08
Night	Elie Wiesel	C. Peter Chen	4 Sep 2010	2010-09-04
Nimitz at Ease	Michael A. Lilly	David Stubblebine	12 Sep 2024	2024-09-12
No Ordinary Joes	Larry Colton	C. Peter Chen	25 Jun 2011	2011-06-25
Odyssey of a Philippine Scout	Arthur Kendall Whitehead	Thomas Houlihan	22 May 2006	2006-05-22
Omaha Beach and Beyond	John Robert Slaughter	C. Peter Chen	16 Apr 2010	2010-04-16
Once I had a Comrade	R. W. Byrd	Dan K.	12 Jun 2008	2008-06-12
Patton	Alan Axelrod	C. Peter Chen	18 Jan 2011	2011-01-18
Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War	Terry Brighton	C. Peter Chen	10 Apr 2010	2010-04-10
Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation Into War	Steven Gillon	C. Peter Chen	3 Jul 2013	2013-07-03
Perilous Moon: Occupied France, 1944-The End Game	Stuart Nimmo	C. Peter Chen	2 Jun 2013	2013-06-02
PPG-2266: A Surgeon's War	Nikolai Amosoff	Dan K.	11 May 2008	2008-05-11
Reminiscences	Douglas MacArthur	C. Peter Chen	31 Aug 2006	2006-08-31
Requiem for Battleship Yamato	Mitsuru Yoshida	C. Peter Chen	26 Feb 2006	2006-02-26
Shadows in the Jungle	Larry Alexander	C. Peter Chen	28 Nov 2010	2010-11-28
Shot Down	Steve Snyder	C. Peter Chen	25 Dec 2015	2015-12-25
Skorzeny's Special Missions	Otto Skorzeny	C. Peter Chen	4 Jul 2011	2011-07-04
Soldier in the Downfall	Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff	Dan K.	16 Oct 2012	2012-10-16
Tears in the Darkness	Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman	C. Peter Chen	18 Jul 2011	2011-07-18
Teddy Bears and Doodlebugs	Jacqueline Hollings	C. Peter Chen	10 Oct 2010	2010-10-10
Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces, Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel	Teddy Suhren & Fritz Brustat-Naval	Dan K.	15 Apr 2008	2008-04-15
The Forgotten Soldier	Guy Sajer	Bryan Hiatt	25 Sep 2005	2005-09-25
The German Aces Speak	Colin Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis	C. Peter Chen	24 Mar 2012	2012-03-24
The Golden Horseshoe	Terence Robertson	Dan K.	4 May 2008	2008-05-04
The Greatest Generation	Tom Brokaw	David Stubblebine	15 May 2011	2011-05-15
The Greatest Generation Speaks	Tom Brokaw	C. Peter Chen	11 Apr 2015	2015-04-11
The Hiding Place	Corrie Ten Boom with John and Elizabeth Sherrill	C. Peter Chen	5 Jun 2012	2012-06-05
The Hitler Book	Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhl	C. Peter Chen	9 Aug 2010	2010-08-09
The Indestructible Man	Don Keith and David Rocco	David Stubblebine	21 Aug 2019	2019-08-21
The Last Goodnight	Howard Blum	C. Peter Chen	5 Apr 2017	2017-04-05
The Last Lion: Alone, 1932-1940	William Manchester	C. Peter Chen	4 Aug 2006	2006-08-04
The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965	William Manchester and Paul Reid	C. Peter Chen	24 Sep 2013	2013-09-24
The Laughing Cow: A U-Boat Captain's Story	Jost Metzler	Dan K.	14 Nov 2012	2012-11-14
The Lions of Iwo Jima	Fred Haynes and James Warren	C. Peter Chen	15 May 2013	2013-05-15
The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats	William Geroux	C. Peter Chen	9 Mar 2018	2018-03-09
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister	Nonna Bannister, Carolyn Tomlin, Denise George	C. Peter Chen	8 Jun 2016	2016-06-08
The Secret War Against Hitler	William Casey	C. Peter Chen	6 May 2015	2015-05-06
The Star of Africa: The Story of Hans Marseille	Colin Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis	C. Peter Chen	25 Feb 2013	2013-02-25
The True German: The Diary of a World War II Military Judge	Werner Otto Müller-Hill	C. Peter Chen	5 Nov 2013	2013-11-05
The White Rose of Stalingrad	Billy Yenne	Dan K.	19 Nov 2013	2013-11-19
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story	Diane Ackerman	C. Peter Chen	18 Sep 2010	2010-09-18
Tin Can Man	E. J. Jernigan	C. Peter Chen	7 May 2011	2011-05-07
To D-Day and Back	Bob Beardon	Bryan Hiatt	24 Dec 2011	2011-12-24
To Hell and Back	Audie Murphy	C. Peter Chen	15 Feb 2017	2017-02-15
Traitor to His Class	H. W. Brands	C. Peter Chen	10 Jul 2012	2012-07-10
Truman	David McCullough	C. Peter Chen	7 Nov 2010	2010-11-07
Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower and a Dangerous World	William Lee Miller	C. Peter Chen	9 Apr 2014	2014-04-09
U-Boat Adventures	Melanie Wiggins	Dan K.	10 Nov 2012	2012-11-10
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	C. Peter Chen	11 Dec 2012	2012-12-11
Undefeated: America's Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor	Bill Sloan	C. Peter Chen	28 Jun 2012	2012-06-28
Valkyrie	Philip von Boeselager	C. Peter Chen	15 Jan 2014	2014-01-15
Walking Away From the Reich	Claus Sellier	Dan K.	1 Apr 2008	2008-04-01
We Came to Fight a War	Jack Flynn	Dan K.	15 Apr 2010	2010-04-15
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa	Eugene B. Sledge	Bryan Hiatt	25 Jul 2005	2005-07-25
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa	Eugene B. Sledge	Jimmy Lebel	5 Nov 2010	2010-11-05
Yang Dapeng: Remembrance of a Martyr in Nanjing 1937	Shu-Chin Yang	C. Peter Chen	9 Feb 2018	2018-02-09
Young Stalin	Simon Sebag Montefiore	C. Peter Chen	23 May 2011	2011-05-23

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