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My Top 5 WWII Nonfiction Books: Book Research

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Nonfiction Books Helping Me On My  WWII Research Quest The Truth of the Matter: Research is exhilarating and exciting. It can also be difficult, time-consuming, and annoying. There are times of mass chaos, and those moments of sheer sorrow. Research is not for the faint of heart. My Findings: I have come across numerous sources: books, articles, documentaries, memoirs, movies, and more of one of the most tragic times in history: World War II. I have become acquainted with names and locations and too many visuals to keep track of them all. The information is at times overwhelming, all the time heart-breaking, and often varied. Finding exactly what you need is a literal needle in a haystack, or in this case, a paragraph or page in a paper factory. You can see my dilemma, right? Looking closer, researching further, and trying to find the right sources led me to my Top Five Nonfiction Books. These are resources I came back to time and again, checked, rechecked, reread, and

My Top 5 WWII Movies: Book Research

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WWII Movie Research: My Top Five Beware I'm a fan of the visual, and I have included several pictures from the movies which I found on Google Images. The copyrights and cookies are not owned by me, and I only included them to give you a more complete look at the movies. Enjoy! :) R esearch is difficult. You know what I'm talking about, right? Trying to find the exact articles, books, documentaries, and more can be exhausting.  As a writer, I want to do my best to represent what I'm putting out. We all make mistakes or miss something at times, but I hope to give an excellent picture of my story, history, and more importantly, my characters. S o, in researching for my four-part, historical fiction series, I've been working hard to find out what's happening on the home front as well as the war front during WWII. I hope you will bear with me as I continue my research and share what I have found so far. I hope my books will live up to the standard I have se