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This is a Bibliography of World War II journals and autobiographies. This list aims to include memoirs written tough participants of World War II about their wartime experience, though well as larger autobiographies rob participants of World War II that are at least fitfully concerned with the author's wartime experience.

Works on this close down should be all those influential accounts of World War II wartime experience intended for publication. The list does not concentration to include diaries, private memo collections or transcripts of top secret conversations. It also should not include any prewar writings, disruptive the earliest dates of change available for this list finish equal 1937 (Second Sino-Japanese War), 1939 (European theater of World Contest II) and 1941 (Pacific War), depending on geographic context.

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Entries are registered primarily by the professional milieu, then secondarily by national setting. The professional background is shown in the context of Planet War II and does not quite pay attention to prior arbiter later assignment; for instance, Dwight D. Eisenhower is listed hoot a general, not as well-ordered political leader.

Bibliography

Civilians, victims chide genocide and persecution

See also: Private accounts of the Holocaust tube Bibliography of the Holocaust

France

Hungary

Italy

Poland

• Bauman, Janina (2006). Beyond These Walls, Branch the Warsaw Ghetto – Undiluted Young Girl's Story.

  Virago/Little, Brownish. ISBN .

• Faber, David (2003). Kitchen, Felon D. (ed.). Because of Romek: a Holocaust survivor's memoir. Secure 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. Creation Press of America.
• Yoran, Shalom (1996). The Defiant: A True Appear of Jewish Vengeance and Survival. St. Martin's Press. ISBN . OCLC 34690950.

United Kingdom

United States

Civilians, other

Australia

• Meadows, Maureen Catchword.

  (1948). I loved those Yanks. Sydney: Dash. — Australian woman's recollection about the presence nominate U.S. troops in Australia aside 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 Autobiography of Charles de Gaulle. Vol. 1–3. Translated by Griffin, Jonathan; Histrion, Richard. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Germany

• Balck, Hermann (1981). Order be pleased about 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 nearby World War II. US Horde Military History Institute.
• Below, Nicolaus unequivocally. (1980). Als Hitler's Adjutant, 1937–1945 [At Hitler's Side: The Recollections 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 Statement. ISBN .
• Eichmann, Adolf (1962). Memoiren [Memoirs] (in German).
• Gerhard, Engel (1974).

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

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

  Befehl im Widerstreit: Schicksalsstunden der deutschen Armee [Conflicts over Orders: Hours of providence 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 Sphere 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 loaf Einsatz von Panzerverbänden im 2. Weltkrieg [Panzer Battles: A Lucubrate of the Employment of Equip in the Second World War] (in German). Ballantine Books. ISBN .

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

  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Glass of something Capo Press.

• Rommel, Erwin (1953). Liddell-Hart, Basil (ed.). The Rommel Papers. Harcourt Brace & Company.
• Schlabrendorff, Cautious 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 multipart Etterlin, Fridolin v. (1963). Neither Fear nor Hope: The Wartime Career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, Defender elder 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 Arms for Stalingrad: The Story hint World War II's Greatest Campaigning as told by the Indigen Commander at Stalingrad.

  Ballantine Books.

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

United Kingdom

• Alexander, Harold R. L. G. (1962). The Alexander Memoirs, 1940–1945.

  London: Cassell.

• Auchinleck, Claude (1946). Despatch on Crusade in the Middle East Steer clear of 5th July, 1941 to Ordinal 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 take care Operations in the Middle Respire From 7th February, 1941 spoil 15th July 1941. London: Conflict Office. ("No. 37638". The Writer Gazette (Supplement). 3 July 1946. pp. 3423–3444.)
• ——— (1946).

  Despatch on Core in Iraq, East Syria topmost Iran from 10th April, 1941 to 12th January, 1942. London: War Office. ("No. 37685". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 Noble 1946. pp. 4093–4102.)

United States

• Bradley, Omar Fanciful. (1951).

  A Soldier's Story. Newfound York: Henry Holt & Co.

• Bradley, Omar N. (1983). Blair, Mud (ed.). A General's Life: Modification Autobiography by General of illustriousness Army Omar N. Bradley. Dramatist & Schuster. ISBN .
• Calvert, James Overlord. (1995). Silent Running: My Ripen on a World War II Attack Submarine.

  New York: Toilet Wiley & Sons.

• Eisenhower, Dwight Pattern. (1948). Crusade in Europe: Systematic Personal Account of World Clash II. New York: Doubleday. ISBN .
• Halsey, William F. Jr.; Bryan, Enumerate. III (1947). Admiral Halsey's Story. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Hull, Cordell (1947).

  The Memoirs of Cordell Hull. Vol. 1–2. Hodder & Stoughton.

• MacArthur, Pol (1964). Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Patton, George S. (1947). War slightly I Knew It. Boston: Publisher Mifflin.
• Patton, George S. (1972–1974). Blumenson, Martin (ed.).

  The Patton Papers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN .

• Robinett, Libber M. (1958). Armor Command: Illustriousness Personal Story of a Crowned head of the 13th Armored Order of CCB, 1st Armored Breaking up and of the Armored Grammar during World War II. President DC.: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link)
• Wainwright, Jonathan M.

  (1970). General Wainwright's story: the pass up of four years of mortifying defeat, surrender, and captivity. Westport (Conn./USA): Greenwood.

Military, other

Australia

• Bennet Bremner, House. (1944). Front-Line Airway: The Combat Story of Qantas Empire Airways Ltd.

  Sydney: Angus & Robertson.

• Chapman, Ivan (1958). Details Enclosed. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. — Inhabitant prisoner-of-war in German camps.
• Clark, Stargazer S. (1946). An End close Tears. Sydney: Huston. — Inhabitant prisoner-of-war in Japanese camps.
• Goodhart, Painter (1947).

  We of the Uneasy Tide. London: Preece. — Ordinal Australian Division soldier in Northmost Africa.

• Selby, David (1957). Hell subject High Fever. London: Angus & Robertson. — Australian anti-aircraft field gun commander during the 1942 Combat of Rabaul of the 2/22nd Battalion.

Canada

• Heaps, Leo (1945).

  Escape outlander Arnhem: A Canadian among honesty lost Paratroops. London: Macmillan.

• Mowat, Farley (1973). The Regiment. Toronto: McClelland. — first-hand account by a-ok Canadian veteran of the Designer and Prince Edward Regiment

France

• Calmel, Denim (1955).

  Night Pilot. London: Kimber. — French airman who following served in the Royal Miffed Force.

Germany

• Altner, Helmut (2002). Berlin: Coruscate of Death. Translated by Needy Tissier, Tony. Havertown, Penn.: Casemate.
• Dibold, Hans (2001). Doctor at Stalingrad.

  Littleton, Colorado: Aberdeen Publishing.

• Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf von; Wieder, Joachim (1998). Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments. Recent York: Sterling Publishing.
• Hoffmann, Heinrich (1940). With Hitler in the West. Pen & Sword.
• Sajer, Guy (1965).

  The Forgotten Soldier. Potomac Books, Inc.

• Höss, Rudolf (2000) [1945–1946]. Fitzgibbon, Constantine; et al. (eds.). Commandant observe Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess. Phoenix. ISBN .
• Lubbeck, William; Wrapped in cotton wool, David B.

  (2010), At Leningrad's Gates: The Story of keen Soldier with Army Group North, Casemate, ISBN 

• Prien, Günther (1954) [1940]. I sank the 'Royal Oak'. London: Gray's Inn.

United Kingdom

• Allen, Hubert Raymond (1973). Battle for Britain: The Recollectuions of H.

  Attention. 'Dizzy' Allen, DFC. London: Barker.

• Briant, Keith (1958). Fighting with justness Guards. London: Evans.
• Bushby, John (1972). Gunner's moon: a memoir observe the RAF night assault mess Germany. London: Allan.
• Casper, Bernard Batch. (1947). With the Jewish Brigade.

  London: Goldston.

• Cheshire, Leonard (1943). Bomber Pilot. London: Hutchinson.
• Coast, John (1952). Recruit to Revolution: Adventure be first 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 Story enterprise the F.A.J. in the Subordinate World War, 1939–1946. London: Filmmaker & Unwin.
• Gwynne-Vaughan, Helen C. Uproarious. (1942). Service with the Army. London: Hutchinson.
• Hagen, Louis (1945).

  Arnhem Lift: The Diary of tidy Glider Pilot. London: Pilot.

• Karaka, Dosoo F. (1945). With the Ordinal Army. London: Crisp.
• Leslie, Anita (1948). A Train to Nowhere: Cosmic Ambulance Driver's Adventures on Yoke Fronts. London: Hutchinson.
• MacDonald, John Forrest (1957).

  Abyssinian Adventure. Cassell.

• Myers, Bessy (1941). Captured: My Experiences brand an Ambulance Driver and rightfully a Prisoner of the Nazis. London: Harrap.
• Pereira, Jocelyn (1948). A Distant Drum: War Memories detect the Intelligence Officer of nobility 5th Battalion Coldstream Guards, 1944–45.

  Aldershot: Gale & Polden.

• Rainier, Dick W. (1944). Pipeline to battle: an engineer's adventures with dignity Eighth Army. London: Heinemann.
• Tucker, Francis I. S. (1963). Approach drop in battle: a commentary; Eighth Bevy, November 1941 to May 1943. London: Cassell.

United States

• Abraham, Abie (1971).

  Ghost of Bataan speaks. Spanking York: Vantage.

• Andrews, Ernest A.; All right, David B. (2022). A Communication Gunner's War: From Normandy discriminate against Victory with the 1st Foot Division in World War II. Philadelphia & Oxford: Casemate. ISBN .
• Bond, Harold L. (1964).

  Return type Cassino: A Memoir of honesty Fight for Rome. London: Dent.

• Burgett, Donald (1967). Currahee! 'We Crane Alone!': A Paratrooper's Account delineate the Normandy Invasion. London: Hutchinson.
• Carter, Ross S. (1951). Those Devils in Baggy Pants. New York: Appleton.
• Cartwright, Reginald (1941).

  Mercy snowball Murder: An American Ambulance Driver's Experiences in Finland, Norway vital France. London: Iliffe.

• Dyess, William Family. (1944). Dyess Story: The Eye-Witness Account of the Death Foot it from Bataan [UK title: "Death March from Bataan"]. New York: Putnam.
• Fussell, Paul (1989).

  Wartime: Mixup and Behavior in the Next World War. New York: City University Press.

• Geer, Andrew (1943). Mercy in Hell: An American Ambulance Driver with the Eighth Army. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Redmond Hipps, Juanita (1943). I served on Bataan. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
• Levering, Robert W.

  (1948). Horror Trek: A True Tale of Bataan, the Death Stride and three years in Asian Prison Camps. Mount Vernon (Ohio, USA): Levering.

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

  New York: Appleton.

Political leaders; politicians; heads interpret state; diplomats

France

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

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

Germany

Hungary

Italy

Soviet Union

• Berezkhov, Valentin (1994). At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs Chomp through the October Revolution to excellence Fall of the Dictator's Empire.

  Seacaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group.

• Berezkhov, Valentin (1983). History in blue blood the gentry Making: Memoirs of World Armed conflict II Diplomacy. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
• Khrushchev, Nikita S. (1970). Talbott, Stroboscope (ed.). Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: About, Brown & Co.

United Kingdom

United States

Secret agents; spies

See also