World War II: The Autobiography : 200 First-Hand Accounts from WWII Viktor Mayer-Schönberger so close to the sun

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World War II: The Autobiography : 200 First-Hand Accounts from WWII Viktor Mayer-Schönberger so close to the sunA 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