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This list is not a complete list but just a starting place.

Adults

Sink the Bismarck!

Dear Home

The Hiding Place

Schlindler's List

The Good Old Days

Night

Treblinka

A Child of Hitler

Guadalcanal

The Citizen Soldier

Memoirs

Hitler

Hitler's Willing Executioners

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Tuskegee Airmen

Albert Speer:  His Battle with Truth

The Thin Red Line

249 At War : The Authorized History of the Raf's Top Claiming Squadron of WWII

The 56th Evac. Hospital : Letters of a WWII Army Doctor (War and the Southwest Series ; No. 4)

Aces High : A Further Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces in WWII

Achieving the Impossible Dream : How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress (The Asian American Experience)

Aircraft Down! : Evading Capture in WWII Europe

Aircraft of WWII

Alone on a Wide Wide Sea : The Story of 835 Naval Air Squadron in WWII

America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

American Decades 1940-1949

American Pilots in the Raf : The WWII Eagle Squadrons

Atomic Spaces : Living on the Manhattan Project

The Attack on Pearl Harbor (Battles of World War II)

B-29 Photo Combat Diary : The Superfortress in WWII and Korea ~

Before the Bomb : How America Approached the End of the Pacific War

The Best War Ever : America and World War II (The American Moment)

Biancastella : A Jewish Partisan in World War II

Brother Leland's experiences-- WWII : fraternizing as a tranquil sedative

The Burning Horse; The Japanese-American Experience in the Yakima Valley,

Caged Dragons : An American Pow in WWII Japan

Carrier Air War : In Original WWII Color

Caught Between Roosevelt & Stalin : America's Ambassadors to Moscow

A Cautious Patriotism : The American Churches & the Second World War

The Censored War : American Visual Experience During World War Two

China Bombers; Chinese-American Composite Wing in WWII

Cohassett Beach Chronicles : World War II in the Pacific Northwest

The Cold Blue Sky : A B-17 Gunner in World War Two

Combat WWII; Europe

D-Day and the Invasion of Normandy (Discoveries)

Daddy's Gone to War : The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings : A True Story of Love, Families, and WWII

The Day the Sun Rose Twice : The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

Days of Sadness Years of Triumph : The American People,1939-1945

The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth

Doughnut Dollies : American Red Cross Girls During World War II : A Novel

The Dream and the Deal : The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943

The Dying President : Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944-1945

The FBI's Racon : Racial Conditions in the United States During World War II

Fighter Command/American Fighters in Original WWII Color

Fighting Racism in World War II

Forgotten Soldier : The Classic WWII Autobiography

The Forties--When We Were Dreamers of Dreams

Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

G.I : The American Soldier in World War II

The Good Soldier : The Story of a Southwest Pacific Signal Corps Wac

Good-Bye, Piccadilly : British War Brides in America (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series)

The Greatest Generation

The Greatest Generation

Harlem at War : The Black Experience in WWII

Harry S. Truman and the Bomb : A Documentary History

Hiroshima in America : A Half Century of Denial

Hiroshima's Shadow

Historical Dictionary of the New Deal

History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Vol 1 : The New World 1939-1946

Imprisoned Apart : The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple

Inside - Camp X

Inside an American Concentration Camp : Japanese American Resistance at

Insidious Foes : The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front

Japanese Americans : From Relocation to Redress

Labor and the Wartime State : Labor Relations and Law During World War II

Letters from Prison : A Revolutionary Party Prepares for Post-Wwii Labor Battles

Life Under a Cloud : American Anxiety About the Atom

The Long Way Home : A Pacific Odyssey of WWII

Louisiana During World War II : Politics and Society, 1939-1945

Louisiana Voices : Remembering World War II (T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Series)

The Luftwaffe, 1933-45 : Strategy for Defeat (Brassey's Commemorative Series, WWII)

The Lynching of Cleo Wright

Making of the New Deal

Maternity Ward; Final Flight of a WWII Liberator

Mission to Yenan : American Liaison With the Chinese Communists 1944-1947

Missions Remembered : Recollections of the World War II Air War

The Men of the Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilots Association

My WWII Diary and the War Effort With War News Day by Day

The New Age of Franklin Roosevelt, 1932-1945.

A New Deal for the American People

Ninjutsu : The Art of the Invisible Warrior

No Ordinary Time : Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II

No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Homefront in World War II

Noble Abstractions : American Liberal Intellectuals and World War II

Not All Soldiers Wore Pants : A Witty World War II Wac Tells All

The Not to Be Forgotten Forties

Nothing Friendly in the Vicinity : My Patrols on the Submarine Uss Guardfish

During WWII

Out of the Forties

Pacific Odyssey : History of the USS Steele During WWII

Panzer : The Illustrated History of German Armour in WWII

The Papers of George Catlett Marshall : 'Aggressive and Determined

Leadership' - June 1, 1943-December 31, 1944 (Vol 4)

Part of Our Time : Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties (Modern Library)

Payoff Artillery-WWII : The Wide Ranging Combat of the Battalion That Fought

Under Five Armies and Eight Divisions in the European Theatre

Personal Justice Denied : Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

Picturing the Bomb : Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project

Pledging Allegiance : American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II

The President's Man : Leo Crowley and Franklin Roosevelt in Peace and War

Prompt and Utter Destruction : President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan

Race and Rumors of Race : The American South in the Early Forties

Recollections of the New Deal : When the People Mattered

The Red Bluff Navy: A WWII Memoir of the Naval Air Transport Command FSU #9

Remaking Dixie : The Impact of World War II on the American South

Reporting World War II : American Journalism 1938-1946 (The Library of America)

Reporting World War II : American Journalism 1944-1946

Reporting World War II, Part One : American Journalism 1938-1944

The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980

The Secret War : Espionage in WWII (World Espionage)

Shot Down: German POW WWII True Story

Sisterhood of Spies : The Women of the Oss

Slacks and Calluses : Our Summer in a Bomber Factory

The Slaughter : An American Atrocity