Front Lines (Front Lines #1)(122)

This is very much a partial bibliography.

A lot of my sources were online. I have only to wonder, “How do you fire a bazooka?” and ten seconds later I’ll be watching the official World War II–era army training film. How great is that?

A quick shout-out to some wonderful museums: the Imperial War Museums in London, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. You can understand intellectually how intimidating a tank is, but standing in front of the real thing, running your hands over the armor, that certainly drives the point home.

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, J?rg. 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.