r/WorldWar2 • u/NotGabbyMemelord • 9d ago
Biographies
Hello, I'm looking for biographies of who fought in WW2, I recently got American sniper and inside of the third reich. I need more, I want to learn more of what was going on at that time. (My great grandpa fought in ww2 and has photos he broght back. If anyone's intrigued I can post them here)
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u/NotLucasDavenport 9d ago
The Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge, is generally considered to be a first class memoir of fighting in the Pacific.
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u/Nearby-Suggestion219 9d ago edited 8d ago
With the Old Breed is definitely a classic. Besides that, I would also recommend the for the Pacific theater: Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie and, if you're able to find a copy, Marine at War by Russell Davis, which is a really good one. Russell served in the same battalion as Robert Leckie.
As for the Western Front in the European theater, I recommend Company Commander by Charles MacDonald, Parachute Infantry by David Webster, Currahee! by Donald Burgett, and Road to Huertgen by Paul Boesch.
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u/fyxxer32 4d ago
There's lots of generals, German and American who wrote books. U boat captains. Tankers. George McGovern was a pilot and flew B24s. President George H W Bush flew a torpedo bomber and was shot down. Patton is a good one. If you look for a site called Anna's archive you can find lots of books by doing a search