Pride of place goes to the series that inspired me to write this trilogy: the Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson. It was reading that trilogy that first caused me to think I’d like to write about World War II.
I also want to mention Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. I’d already started writing Front Lines when I read Verity, but it certainly caused me to want to work harder to come up to that very high standard.
Okay, on to at least some of the books:
Berubé, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire. Washington, DC: The Free Press, 1990.
Blumenson, Martin. Kasserine Pass—Rommel’s Bloody, Climactic Battle for Tunisia. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000.
Calhoun, Mark T. Defeat at Kasserine—American Armor Doctrine, Training and Battle Command in Northwest Africa, World War II. Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014.
Cowdrey, Albert E. Fighting for Life—American Military Medicine in World War II. Washington, DC: The Free Press, 1994.
Franklin, Robert “Doc Joe.” Medic—How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2006.
Hartstern, Carl J. World War II: Memoirs of a Dogface Soldier. Xlibris, 2011.
Hirsch, James S. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Johnson, Hannibal B. Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2014.
Kelly, Orr. Meeting the Fox. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002.
Kerner, MD, John A. Combat Medic: World War II. Donald S. Ellis, 2002.
Kershaw, Alex. The Liberator. New York: Broadway Books, 2012.
Mauldin, Bill. Up Front. New York: W.W. Norton, 1945.
Muth, Jörg. Command Culture. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2011.
Pyle, Ernie. Brave Men. Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance, 1943.
————. Here Is Your War: Story of GI Joe. New York: Henry Holt, 1943.
Reitan, Earl A. Riflemen—On the Cutting Edge of World War II. Bennington, VT: Merriam Press, 2014.
Robinson, Sergeant Don. News of the 45th. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1944.
Rottman, Gordon L. SNAFU—Situation Normal All F***ed Up. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2013.
Smith, Daniel D., and Frank T. Barber. Memoirs of World War II in Europe. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
Tobin, James. Ernie Pyle’s War—America’s Eyewitness to World War II. Washington, DC: The Free Press, 1997.
Urban, Mark. The Tank War. New York: Abacus, 2013.
Watson, Edward. A Rifleman in World War II. Digital Unlimited, 2015.
Zaloga, Steven. Kasserine Pass 1943—Rommel’s Last Victory. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2005.
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MICHAEL GRANT has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, and their two children. You can visit him online at www.themichaelgrant.com.
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