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1940s: A number of authors naturally turn to World War II for their subject matter. Books such as Ilya Eherenberg’s The Fall of Paris, Ernie Pyle’s Here Is Your War, and Ted Lawson’s Thirty Seconds over Tokyo brought the complexities of the war into the libraries of millions.

Today: World War II is still a widely-discussed era that has inspired a number of important works of fiction and nonfiction, including Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, Stephen Ambrose’s Citizen Soldiers, and Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest...

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