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Day Late for Veteran's Day
During WWI, Hervey Allen’s unit of the National Guard (from Pennsylvania) fought in France. Many military and cultural historians consider Allen’s Toward the Flame: A War Diary to be the best combat memoir of WWI by an A… -
Biruma no Tategoto
Michio Takeyama's best-selling WWII novel Harp of Burma (Biruma no Tategoto) won the prestigious literary Mainichi Publishing Culture Prize in the late Forties. In the mid-Sixties, UNESCO commissioned respected scholar … -
Serio-Comic War Memoir
I read Going Solo is an WWII memoir by Roald Dahl for the War through the Generations reading challenge. The book is rated 4th in popularity among all non-fiction Penguin editions. Written for young adults, the writing i… -
Memoir of a Field-grade Officer
Through scarcity, Panzer Commander by COL Hans von Luck is a valuable war memoir. Rare to get an informed view from the adversary, and for that adversary to have experienced as much of WWII as he did. COL von Luck was a … -
Passion that Makes Things Happen
In the 1970s, Aaron Lansky was studying Yiddish. Searching for texts to read, he realized thousands of Yiddish books were being tossed by heirs that didn’t read Yiddish or libraries that discarded books not circulating. … -
This Sporting Life
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man is the first volume of a trilogy written by Siegfried Sassoon about his Great War experiences. As a fictionalized memoir, it covers his childhood and extended adolescence leading up the war s… -
WWII: The Broad View
The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-45 (Gordan Wright, 1968) is an ambitious attempt to cover WWII in Europe in one volume. About a third covers military operations and political events that would be useful for readers who wan… -
A Genuine Lost Classic
Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome (Der Tod in Rom) wasn't translated into English until the early 1990s and translator Michael Hoffmann shared the 1993 Schlegel-Tieck prize for German translation. When it was first pub… -
The Fuhrer Myth
Ian Kershaw’s book The "Hitler Myth": Image and Reality in the Third Reich is not about the dictator’s personality traits or political cunning that made him popular. Instead, Kershaw documents how propaganda minister Jos… -
Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front
The Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich (1956) is an action-packed WWII novel for readers seeking a story of heroes. The author succeeds in his intention to get across the individual foot soldier’s experience in industrializ…
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Day Late for Veteran's Day
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A Strange Catcher
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Let's Talk about Procrastination Later
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