"Soldiers usually win the battle; generals get credit for them." --Napoleon Bonaparte

The following titles are the stories of the men and women of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force who fought the battles and eventually won World War II.

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1942: The Year that Tried Men's Souls by Winston Groom

Reflections of Pearl Harbor: An Oral History of December 7, 1941 by K. D. Richardson

Voices from D-Day by Jonathan Bastable

Voices of Valor: D-Day: June 6, 1944 by Douglas Brinkley

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle Nest by Stephen Ambrose

The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe As Told By the Men Who Fought It by Gerald Astor

Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman's War in Europe by Roscoe C. Blunt

Saving the Breakout: The 30th Division's Heroic Stand at Mortain, August 7-12, 1944 by Alwyn Featherston

Crisis in the Pacific: The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them by Gerald Astor

Voices from the Pacific War: Bluejackets Remember by Bruce M. Petty

Now Hear This: The Story of American Sailors in World War II by Edwin P. Hoyt

The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape by Alan Burgess

And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II by Evelyn M. Monahan

Tales from a Tin Can: The USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Michael Olson

The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw

Visions From a Foxhole: A Rifleman in Patton's Ghost Corps by William A. Foley

Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat by Patrick K. O'Donnell

Always Faithful: A Memoir of the Marine Dogs of WWII by William W. Putney

Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by F. H. Hinsley

Unsung Heroes of World War II: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers by Deanne Durrett

The Homefront: America during World War II by Mark Jonathan Harris

I Could Never Be So Lucky Again: An Autobiography by James Harold Doolittle

Patton by Alan Axelrod

General of the Army, George C. Marshall: Soldier and Statesman by Ed Cray