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FAVORITE NON-FICTION BOOKS

European Theater - Air War


Masters of the Air by Don Miller

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot by Robert Morgan

Blood and Fears: How America's Bomber Boys of the Eighth Air Force Saved World War II by Kevin Wilson

The Point Blank Directive: Three Generals and the Untold Story of the Daring Plan that Saved D-Day by Douglas Keeney

With the Possum and the Eagle: Memoir of a Navigator's War over Germany and Japan by Ralph Nutter

Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II by John C. McManus

Fall of Fortresses by Elmer Bendiner

Bomber Boys by Travis Ayres

To Kingdom Come: Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War over Germany by Robert Mrazek

Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team by John Steinbeck

Ghost Fields of East Anglia: Capturing Fading Memories of the Aerial War 1942-45 by Martin Bowman

The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe told by the Men Who Fought It, by Gerald Astor


European Theater - General

Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble by Anthony Beevor


American Red Cross Girls - Europe

At His Side: The Story of the American Red Cross Overseas in World War II by George Korson

The Clubmobile - ARC in the Storm by Marjorie Lee Morgan

Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II by James H. Madison

Destination Unknown: Adventures of a World War II American Red Cross Girl by Leona Cox

War Through the Hole of a Doughnut by Angela Petesch

Battlestars and Doughnuts, by Oscar Whitelaw Rexford

A Woman in a Man's War by B.J. Olewiler

One Woman's World War II, by Violet Kochendoerfer

My War: From Bismarck to Britain and Back by Ruth Register Coleman


American Red Cross Girls - Pacific

Coffee and Sympathy: World War II Letters from the South Pacific by Marcia Ward Behr

Red Cross Kay: My Journey of Service in WWII by Katherine Peddle Dixon

One of the Boys but Always a Lady by Lillian Jones Dowling

How to Play During a War by Lynne Merritt Wheldon


American Red Cross - CBI (China-Burma-India)

Survival in the Land  of Dysentery: The World War II Experiences of a Red Cross Worker in India by Katharine Harris van Hogendorp

Runway towards Orion: The True Adventures of a Red Cross Girl on a B-29 Air Base in World War II India by Mary Thomas Sargent

Dancing with GIs: A Red Cross Club Worker in World War II India by Libby Chitwood Appel


Women in World War II - General

Our Mother's War: American Women at Home and at the Front during WWII by Emily Yellin

Sisters in Arms: The Women Who Flew in World War II, by Helena Schrader


War Correspondents

The Women who Wrote the War by Nancy Sorel Caldwell

Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home

Writing the War: Chronicles of a World War II Correspondent by Anne Kiley

Eve of a Thousand Midnights: The Star-Cross Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific by Bill Lascher


Pacific Theater - General

D-Days in the Pacific by Donald L. Miller

Lucky 666: The Impossible Mission, by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin


Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff

Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic

The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose

Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts behind Japanese Lines in WWII by Larry Alexander

A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice by Anthony Summers

Into the Rising Sun: WWII's Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by Patrick K. O'Donnell


Pacific Theater - Air War

Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima by Stephen Walker

Enola Gay: The Bombing of Hiroshima by Gordon Thomas

Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan by Barrett Tillman

Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific by Eric Bergerud

Battle of the Bismarck Sea by Lex McAulay

The Grim Reapers at Work in the Pacific Theater: The Third Attack Group of the Fifth Air Force by John P. Henebry

Air Combat at 20 Feet by Garrett Middlebrook

The Spectator: A World War II Bomber Pilot's Journal of the Artist as Warrior by David Zellmer

The Flying Circus: Pacific War - 1943 - As Seen Through a Bombsight by James C. Wright

With the Fifth Army Air Force: Photos from the Pacific Theater by James Gallagher



China-Burma-India Theater - General

Stilwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara Tuchman

China-Burma-India Theater - Air War

Flying the Hump by Otha Cleo Spencer







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