San Antonio College Library

The true story of Christine Arnothy's experiences as a fifteen-year-old during the siege of Budapest in World War II.

The dean of oral history evokes the innocent idealism, as well as the terror and horror, of ordinary Americans at home and abroad during World War II.

Focuses on the generation of Americans who were born in the 1920s, came of age during the Depression, fought in World War II, and came home to build a new America during the postwar era.

"We write this history two months after the death of Nazism. The experiences and adventures of our company are still fresh in our minds. This book is not written as an official study of army tactics in modern warfare, but rather to preserve the personal anecdotes and incidents that are so treasured but often unwillingly lost by a faulty memory ... we have written this from the stories as told by the individual men. We have often used their exact words....

"Reginald Jones was nothing less than a genius. And his appointment to the Intelligence Section of Britain's Air Ministry in 1939 led to some of the most astonishing scientific and technological breakthroughs of the Second World War. In Most Secret War he details how Britain stealthily stole the war from under the Germans' noses by outsmarting their intelligence at every turn. He tells of the 'battle of the beams'; detecting and defeating flying bombs;...

Personal account of his commando training in the Japanese Army, his wartime assignment to harass U.S. troops in the Philippines and 30 years alone on a jungle island awaiting word of Japanese victory.