World War II: The Autobiography (2 page)

Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 26th Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division

TUNIS FALLS, 7 MAY 1943

Allan Moorehead, war correspondents

ENVOI: “I WOULDNT MISS THE EXPERIENCE I ENCOUNTERED,” JULY 1943

Sergeant Ray salisbury, USAAF

Part IV Barbarossa: The German Invasion of Russia, June 1941-February 1943

INTRODUCTION

“WE'RE GOING TO SHOW THOSE BOLSHEVIK BUMS WHO’S WHO”: A GERMAN TANK GUNNER WRITES HOME, 25 JUNE 1941

Sergeant Karl Fuchs, 25 Panzer Regiment

THE
WEHRMACHT
ADVANCES INTO RUSSIA, JULY 1941

General Blumentritt,
Wehrmacht

ONE MAN’S WAR: A MOSCOVITE JOINS THE RED ARMY, JULY 1941

Zhuravlev Alexander Grigoryevich

STUKAS DIVE-BOMB THE SOVIET FLEET, 21 SEPTEMBER 1941

Hans Ulrich Rudel,
Luftwaffe

LENINGRAD DURING THE BLOCKADE, SEPTEMBER 1941-JANUARY 1944

Alexander Werth, war correspondent

THE ARRIVAL OF “GENERAL WINTER”, 13 NOVEMBER 1941

Heinrich Haape,
Wehrmacht

ONE MAN’S WAR: A
WEHRMACHT
SOLDIER’S DIARY OF THE RUSSIAN FRONT, 31 MARCH-26 SEPTEMBER 1942

Private First Class Wolfgang Knoblich

MR CHURCHILL GOES TO MOSCOW, 12 AUGUST 1942

Henry C. Cassidy, Journalist

HOLOCAUST: SS EXECUTION OF JEWS IN THE UKRAINE, 5 OCTOBER 1942

Herman Graebe

RUSSIAN PRISONERS, JULY 1941

Benno Zieser,
Wehrmacht
229

THE BATTLE FOR SEVASTAPOL, 7 JUNE-4 JULY 1942

General von Manstein, GOC 11th Army Ostheer

STALINGRAD: “THE RAT WAR”, OCTOBER 1942

Anonymous Officer, 24th Panzer Division, Benno Zieser

STALINGRAD: THE RUSSIAN ULTIMATUM, 8 JANUARY 1943

STALINGRAD: LAST LETTERS HOME, JANUARY 1943

Anonymous German soldiers

STALINGRAD: THE SUFFERING OF THE GERMAN TROOPS, LATE JANUARY 1943

Joachim Wieder, Intelligence Officer, VIII Corps, German Sixth Army

STALINGRAD: THE END

Sixth Army to High Command, 24 JANUARY 1943

STALINGRAD: TAKEN PRISONER, 2 FEBRUARY 1943

Joachim Wieder, Intelligence Officer, VIII Corps, German Sixth Army

PART V Banzai: The War in the Pacific, December 1941-June 1942

INTRODUCTION

PEARL HARBOR: THE VIEW FROM THE JAPANESE COCKPIT, 7 DECEMBER 1941

Taisa Mitsuo Fuchida, Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service

PEARL HARBOR: THE VIEW FROM THE GROUND, 7 DECEMBER 1941

John Garcia, 7th Infantry Division

CABLE: PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TO PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL, 8 DECEMBER 1941

THE LOSS OF THE
REPULSE
AND
PRINCE OF WALES,
OFF THE COAST OF MALAYA, 10 DECEMBER 1941

O.D. Gallagher, war correspondent

FLYING TIGER: AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP PILOT IN ACTION AGAINST THE JAPANESE, 19 DECEMBER 1941

Claire L Chennault, AVG

THE FALL OF SINGAPORE: A CIVILIAN DIARY, 9-15 FEBRUARY 1942

Dr O.E Fisher

DEATH MARCH ON BATAAN: THE FIRST DAY, 10 APRIL 1942

Lieutenant-Colonel William Dyess, 21st Pursuit Squadron, USAAF

BURMA: THE BATTLE OF THE OIL FIELDS, 18 APRIL 1942

General W.J. Slim, 1st Burma Division

RAID ON TOKYO, 18 APRIL 1942

Colonel James Doolittle, USAAF

BOOT CAMP: THE MAKING OF A MARINE, VIRGINIA, USA, 1942

William Manchester, USMC

TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC: A Gl WRITES HOME, MARCH 1942-JANUARY 1943

Sergeant B.J Kazazkow, US Army

HOME FRONT: “JIM CROW” IN THE ARMY

Private Milton Adams, 24 Quarter Master’s Battalion

BATTLE OF MIDWAY: ONE MAN’S DIARY, 4 JUNE 1942

Robert J Casey, war correspondent

MIDWAY: THE DECISIVE FIVE MINUTES, 4 JUNE 1942

Taisa Mitsuo Fuchida, Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service

Part VI Resistance & Reconquest - The War in Western and Southern Europe, November 1940-May 1945

INTRODUCTION

SWORDFISH ATTACK THE ITALIAN FLEET, TARANTO, 11 NOVEMBER 1940

Lieutenant M. R. Maund RN, 824 Squadron

LUNCH WITH DE GAULLE, London, 20 JANUARY 1941

Harold Nicolson, MP

ONE MAN’S WAR: THE DIARY OF A TRAINEE BOMBER PILOT, 26 JANUARY-18 MAY 1941

Flying Officer Michael Scott, RAF Bomber Command

THE GERMAN AIRBORNE ASSAULT ON CRETE, 20 MAY 1941

Baron von der Heydte, 1st Battalion, 3rd German Parachute Regiment

HOLOCAUST: MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS AT DACHAU, 1941-45

Franz Blaha

A “CIRCUS” OVER FRANCE, AUGUST 1941

Flight Lieutenant “Johnnie” Johnson, 616 Squadron RAF

HOME FRONT: THE GREAT MAN CHASE, ENGLAND, DECEMBER 1941

Anonymous member of the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ, 5 JANUARY 1942

Airey Neave

NOTIFICATION OF THE DEATH OF ACTING SQUADRON LEADER ERNEST MASON, RAF, FEBRUARY 1942

RAID ON DIEPPE, 19 AUGUST 1942

Ross Munro, Canadian war correspondent

THE TWATS IN THE OPS ROOM, 1942

Anon

HOLOCAUST: THE JEWS ARE ROUNDED UP, AMSTERDAM, 19 NOVEMBER 1942

Anne Frank

OFFICER SELECTION, BRITAIN, 1943

Rifeman Alex Bowlby, Rifle Brigade

ONE MAN’S WAR: AN AMERICAN AIRMAN’S LETTER, 1943

Sergeant Carl Goldman, USAAF

THE DAMBUSTERS RAID, Ruhr Valley, 16 MAY 1943

Guy Gibson, RAF

SICILY: AMERICAN COUNTER-ATTACK AT BIAZZA RIDGE, 9 JULY 1942

General James M. Gavin, Parachute Regimental Combat Team, US 82nd Airborne Division

HOME FRONT: FIRESTORM IN HAMBURG, 27 JULY 1943

Else Wendel, Housewife

US BOMBERS RAID THE OIL REFINERIES AT PLOESTI, RUMANIA, 1 AUGUST 1943

Captain John S. Young, USAAF

THE RESCUE OF MUSSOLINI FROM GRAN SASSO, 12 SEPTEMBER 1943

Captain Otto Skorzeny, Waff en SS

THE LANDINGS AT SALERNO, 9 SEPTEMBER 1943

John Steinbeck, war correspondent

HOME FRONT: RACHEL THE RIVETER, SAN DIEGO, 1943

Rachel Wray, hand riveter, Consolidated Aircraft

“WAITING, WAITING, WAITING”: THE LIFE OF A P.O.W., GERMANY, 1944

Sergeant Nell, Green Howards

A RESISTANCE GROUP BLOWS UP A TRAIN, FRANCE, 1944

George Millar, SOE

FLYING FOR THE FATHERLAND: A GERMAN FIGHTER PILOT INTERCEPTS HEAVY BOMBERS, 10-21 FEBRUARY 1944

Heinz Knoke,
Luftwaffe

COWARDICE, CASSINO, SPRING 1944

Howard L Bond, US 36th Infantry Division

CASSINO: THE END, 16-18 MAY 1944

Major Fred Majdalany Lancashire Fusiliers

HOME FRONT: PURE HELL FOR A GUY NOT IN UNIFORM, CANADA, 1943

Anonymous

D-DAY: EMBARKATION, 4 JUNE 1944

Alan Moorehead, war correspondent

IKE’S DAY BEFORE D-DAY, SHAEF ADVANCE (NEAR PORTSMOUTH), 5 JUNE 1944

Captain Harry C. Butcher

D-DAY: A PARATROOPER LISTS HIS KIT, WELFORD AERODROME, 5 JUNE 1944

Donald Burgett, US 101st Airborne Division

D-DAY: THE AIRBORNE LANDINGS, 6 JUNE 1944

Major Friedrich Hayn,
Wehrmacht
Staff Officer

D-DAY: THE LANDINGS, 6 JUNE 1944

Lieutenant HT Bone, East Yorkshire Regiment, Captain Joseph Dawson, US 1st Infantry Division

ONE MAN’S WAR: A NORMANDY DIARY, 6 JUNE 1944-24 JUNE 1944

Corporal GE Hughes, 1st Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment

SNIPING, NORMANDY, 26 JUNE 1944

Ernie Pyle, war correspondent

BUZZ BOMBS ON KENT, JUNE 1944

Lionel King, Eight-year-old schoolboy

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF ADOLF HITLER, EASTERN GERMANY, 20 JULY 1944

Heinrich Bucholz

GUERILLA AMBUSH IN CRETE, AUGUST 1944

W. Stanley Moss

FALAISE: THE KILLING FIELD, 19 AUGUST 1944

Johnnie Johnson RAF

ARNHEM: AT THE BRIDGE, 18-29 SEPTEMBER 1944

Lieutenant E.M. Mackay 1st Airborne Division

PROSTITUTION, NAPLES, 4 OCTOBER 1944

Sergeant Norman Lewis, Field Security Service

THE SUICIDE OF FIELD MARSHAL ERWIN ROMMEL, GERMANY, 14 OCTOBER 1944

Manfred Rommel

HOLOCAUST: SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ, OCTOBER 1944

Primo Levi, prisoner

THE FALL OF AACHEN, 17 SEPTEMBER 1944

George Mucha, war correspondent

THE US ARMY SLOGS UP ITALY, WINTER 1944

Ernie Pyle, war correspondent

THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE: THE AFTERMATH, JANUARY 1945

Martha Gellhorn, war correspondent

CROSSING THE GERMAN BORDER, 28 FEBRUARY 1945

John Foley, British Tank Officer

ONE MAN’S WAR: A G.I. FIGHTS HIS WAY INTO GERMANY MARCH-APRIL 1945

Private Charles Cavas, 417th Infantry Regiment

A BOMB HITS THE PROPAGANDA MINISTRY, BERLIN, 13 MARCH 1945

Joseph Goebbels

IN DYING WE LIVE: LAST TESTAMENT OF A DANISH ANTI-NAZI, 4 APRIL 1945