# World War II: The Autobiography

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- Authors: [Jon E. Lewis](https://www.bookquiver.com/jon-e-lewis)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-07-30

## Description

A remarkable series of over 200 eye-witness accounts taken from diaries, letters, speeches, interviews and memoirs of those who were there: pilots, sailors, generals, infantrymen, war correspondents and leaders. These include Spitfire pilot Richard Hillary's account of bailing out of his plane in the Battle of Britain; a German sailor's view of HMS Royal Oak being torpedoed at Scapa Flow; insights into Rommel's ailing health from a lieutenant in the Afrika Korps; famous war correspondent Ernie Pyle's account of GI meals during Operation Torch; Anne Frank's recollection of the rounding up of Jews in Amsterdam; the last letters home from anonymous German soldiers in Stalingrad; the view from a Japanese cockpit over Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941; a German officer's memories of the airborne assault on Crete in May 1941; the firestorm following the bombing of Dresden in July 1943 in the words of a German woman; a lieutenant in the 1st Airborne Divsion's eyewitness account of the fighting in Arnhem; Martha Gellhorn on the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge; a British tank officer crossing the German border on 28 February 1945; on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea; an Allied intelligence officer being executed by the Japanese; the tunnels of Iwo Jima; and a kamikaze pilot's final letter.

## Editions

### World War II: The Autobiography

- Publisher: robinson
- ISBN: 978-18-4901-003-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-07-30
- Language: en_GB

### World War II: The Autobiography

- Publisher: robinson
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4901-263-8
- Published: 2009-07-30
- Language: en_GB