Sunday, August 13, 2006

Five Best Firsthand accounts of World War II.

OpinionJournal - Five Best

1. "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" by Ted Lawson (Random House, 1943).

2. "Baa Baa Black Sheep" by Gregory Boyington (Putnam, 1958).

3. "Goodbye, Darkness" by William Manchester (Little, Brown, 1979).

4. "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax (Norton, 1995).

5. "Hiroshima" by John Hersey (Knopf, 1946).

Mr. Weintraub's "Eleven Days in December: Christmas at the Bulge, 1944" (Free Press) will be published in November.

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