Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II

6 best books like Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II (Robert Leckie): With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters, Up Front, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45, A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Author	Eugene B. Sledge
ISBN	0195067142

In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for...

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Author	Stephen E. Ambrose
ISBN	0743449746

It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical, portraying patriots as suckers, slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part...

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

Author	Dick Winters
ISBN	0425208133

They were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander—"the best combat leader in World War II" to his men....

Up Front

Author	Bill Mauldin
ISBN	0393050319

The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery,...

The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany 1944-45

Author	Stephen E. Ambrose
ISBN	0743203399

The Barnes & Noble Review
Master WWII military historian Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author of such classic works as Band of Brothers and D-Day , hits the front lines again with this exciting and compelling look at the courageous young men who flew the massive B-24 bombers over Germany...

A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us

Author	Marcus Brotherton
ISBN	0425234207

The author of We Who Are Alive and Remain presents remembrances from the families of the soldiers of Easy Company

A Company of Heroes is an intimate, revealing portrait of the lives of the men who fought for our freedom during some of the darkest days the world has ever known-men who returned home...