The Battle of Arnhem: the Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

The Battle of Arnhem: the Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II by Antony Beevor, 459 pages.
Beevor has this great gift for including an amazing amount of detail. He is able to weave together a wide variety of accounts from contemporary witnesses and the work of more recent authorities into a compelling narrative. Beevor looks at the decisions that led up to the disastrous attack in September of  1944, and the plans, movements and skirmishes as they unfolded. His sources are primarily the soldiers involved in the fighting, and their commanders; from the Sherwood Rangers, the Guards Armored, and the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade (Polish), to the 506 Parachute Infantry, and the 327 Glider Infantry. That is just the allied side. They were attacking the 107th Panzer Brigade, the 10th SS Frundsberg Panzer Division, and the 1st Fallchirmjager Regiment on the German side, all playing defense. We here from these soldiers too.
Over the course of one week in September, a number of Dutch towns were briefly liberated, and miles of roadway cleared as allied airborne and glider troops went ahead of to the armored troops to seize the bridges. The armored troops and infantry soldiers who followed were supposed to hold the path into Germany. Beevor recounts the brave fighting by the soldiers, the horrible conditions for the civilians, and the squabbling and blaming by the officers involve as the allied plans began their unwinding and disintegration.

Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld

Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, translated from the French by Sam Taylor, 454 pages.

Serge Klarsfeld was a French Jew whose last memory of his father was of when he was eight, when the Germans came and his father hid Serge, his mother, and sister in a hidden cupboard under the sink. Beate was a German girl whose father fought on the eastern front. He was saved from death in battle by a case of double pneumonia in 1945. Beatte and Serge met in Paris in 1960. They have been together ever since, married with children and now grandchildren. They have spent their lives chasing down Nazis who had escaped justice after the war.  Some of the men they hunted worked in the post-war German government, like Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, or in the European parliament like Ernst Achenbach. Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, was hiding in Bolivia.
Beate and Serge fought tirelessly to bring former Nazis to justice, using legal and illegal methods, working with allies from the revered Simon Wiesenthal to the more infamous Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader.
This was my introduction to the famous pair. I had somehow missed the 1986 made-for-TV movie, starring Farah Fawcett, made about the couple.