The Longest Winter
by Alex Kershaw | 
Escape from the Deep
by Alex Kershaw | 
Avenue of Spies
by Alex Kershaw | 
The Few
by Alex Kershaw | 
Given Up for Dead
by Bill Sloan |
The Burma Road
by Donovan Webster |
The Pacific
by Hugh Ambrose | 
Sea of Thunder
by Evan Thomas | 
Ardennes 1944
by Antony Beevor |
Overlord
by Max Hastings |
Omaha Beach
by Joseph Balkoski | 
The Miracle of Dunkirk
by Walter Lord | 
Strong Men Armed
by Robert Leckie |
Neptune
by Craig L. Symonds | 
Neptune's Inferno
by James D. Hornfischer | 
The Forgotten 500
by Gregory A. Freeman |
Guadalcanal
by Richard B. Frank | 
With Wings Like Eagles
by Michael Korda | 
Moral Combat
by Michael Burleigh | 
13 Hours
by Mitchell Zuckoff |
June 6, 1944: Nineteen boys from Bedford, Virginia--population just 3,000 in 1944--died in the first bloody minutes of D-Day. They were part of Company A of the 116th Regiment of the 29th Division, and the first wave of American soldiers to hit the beaches in Normandy. Later in the campaign, three more boys from this small Virginia town died of gunshot wounds. Twenty-two sons of Bedford lost--it is a story one cannot easily forget and one that the families of Bedford will never forget. The Bedford Boys is the true and intimate story of these men and the friends and families they left behind.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and relatives, as well as diaries and letters, Kershaw's book focuses on several remarkable individuals and families to tell one of the most poignant stories of World War II--the story of one small American town that went to war and died on Omaha Beach.