Gunter Grass: How I Spent the War, a first-person account of an SS recruit during WWII.
Update: Here's some biographical information about Grass, who is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. (thx, red)
The last surviving WWII Comanche code talker dies. "The group of Comanche Indians from the Lawton area were selected for special duty in the U.S. Army to provide the Allies with a language that the Germans could not decipher."
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