Bibliography of World War II

This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

Overview

• Addison, Paul and Angus Calder (eds.) Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945. London: Pimlico, 1997.
• Auden, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood. Journey to A War. New York: Random House, 1939.
• Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
• Beevor, Antony. The Second World War. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2012.
• Bell, P. M. H. Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
• Bess, Michael. Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. New York: Vintage, 2008.
• Burleigh, Michael. Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 2010.
• Commager, Henry Steele. The Story of the Second World War. Washington DC: Brassey’s, 1991.
• Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948-1952 (6 vols)
• Davies, Norman. No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945. New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
• Dear, I.C.B. (ed.). The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Deighton, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. - covers from World War I to Pearl Harbor
• Ellis, John. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: Viking, 1990.
• Gilbert, Martin. The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989.
• Hastings, Max. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. London: Harper Collins, 2001.
• Hastings, Max. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939–1945. New York: Harper, 2016.
• Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2004.
• Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking, 1989.
• Kitchen, Martin. A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London: Longman, 1990.
• Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
• Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
• Parker, R. A. C. Second World War: A Short History. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks, 2002.
• Parrish, Thomas, and S.L.A. Marshall. The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
• Polmar, Norman. World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941–1945. New York: Random House, 1996.
• Purnell's History of the Second World War. Paulton, Eng.: Purnell & Sons. - magazine series
• Roberts, Andrew. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.
• Schreiber, Gerhard. Der Zweite Weltkrieg. München: Verlag C.H.Beck, 2003.
• Snyder, Louis L. Historical Guide to World War II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
• Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War II. New York: Morrow, 1980.
• Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961.
• Waller, John H. The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 1996.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
• Willmott, H.P. The Great Crusade. Dulles, VA.: Potomac Books Inc., 2008.
• Wright, Gordon. The Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Theatres

European theatre

• Ahonen, Pertti, Jerzy Kochanowski, and Gustavo Corni. Occupation in Europe—People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and its Aftermath. London: Berg, 2008.
• Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942. New York: Random House, 1996.
• Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945. New York: Random House, 1998.
• Cole, Hugh M. The Lorraine Campaign: The European Theater of Operations Series. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1950.
• Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory. London: Macmillan, 2006.
• Dimbleby, Jonathan. The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
• Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
• Kershaw, Ian. To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949. New York: Viking, 2015.
• Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany 1944–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
• Wilmot, Chester. The Struggle for Europe. New York: Harper, 1952.

Invasion of Poland

• Böhler, Jochen. Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg: Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939 [Prelude to the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht in Poland, 1939]. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006.

Invasions of France and the Low Countries

• Beaufre, André. The Fall of France. London: Cassell, 1967.
• Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1968 [1946]. - Battle of France
• Deighton, Len. Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.
• Shirer, William L. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

Battle of Britain

• Addison, Paul and Jeremy Craig (eds.) Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May to September 1940. London: Bodley Head, 2010.
• Bishop, Patrick. Fighter Boys: Saving Britain, 1940. London: Harper Perennial, 2004.
• Deighton, Len. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
• Morgan, David, and Mary Evans. The Battle for Britain: Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War. New York: Routledge, 1993.
• Overy, Richard. The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
• Todman, Daniel. Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937–1941. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Balkan Campaign

• Beevor, Antony. Crete: The Battle and the Resistance. London: John Murray, 1991.

East African Campaign

• Ellsberg, Edward. Under the Red Sea Sun. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946. - attack on Massawa

North African Campaign

• Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002.

German-Soviet war (1941−45)

• Bartov, Omer. The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
• Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. London: Viking, 1998.
• Craig, William. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad New York: Penguin Books, 1973.
• Dibold, Hans. Doctor at Stalingrad. Littleton, CO: Aberdeen Publishing, 2001.
• Duffy, Christopher. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.
• Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf von, and Joachim Wieder. Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments. New York: Sterling Publishing, 1998.
• Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany (Vol. 1). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984.
• Fritz, Stephen G. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
• Fritz, Stephen G. Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
• Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
• Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet—German Combat Operations April to August 1942. Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
• Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. Armageddon in Stalingrad: September to November 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
• Glantz, David M. After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942–1943. Oxford: Helion and Company, 2011.
• Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
• Hartmann, Christian. Operation Barbarossa: Germany’s War in the East, 1941–1945. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Hayward, Joel. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942–1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
• Healy, Mark. Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943. The History Press, 2008.
• Hellbeck, Jochen. Stalingrad: The City That Defeated The Third Reich. New York: PublicAffairs, 2015.
• Jones, Michael K. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate, 2007.
• Kehrig, Manfred. Stalingrad. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, 1974.
• Raus, Erhard. Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941–1945. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.
• Reid, Anna. Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944. New York: Walker & Co., 2012.
• Roberts, Geoffrey. Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History. New York: Longman, 2002.
• Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Ziemke, Earl F. Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, 1968.
• Ziemke, Earl F., and Magna E. Bauer. Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1987

Italian Campaign

• Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2007.

Operation Bodyguard

• Brown, Anthony Cave. Bodyguard of Lies. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Liberation of Europe

• Ambrose, Stephen. Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
• Ambrose, Stephen. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
• Ambrose, Stephen. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
• Atkinson, Rick. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2013.
• Balkokski, Joseph. Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 1999.
• Bédarida, François (ed.). Normandie 44, du débarquement à la libération [Normandy 44: Landing to the Liberation]. Paris: A. Michel, 1987.
• Beevor, Antony. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. London: Penguin, 2009.
• Beevor, Antony. Ardennes 1944: Battle of the Bulge. London: Viking, 2015.
• Belfield, Eversley, and Hubert Essame. The Battle for Normandy. Philadelphia: Dufour Editions, 1965.
• Blumenson, Martin. Breakout and Pursuit. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army, 1961. - First and Third United States Armies
• Blumenson, Martin. The Battle of the Generals: The Untold Story of the Falaise Pocket - The Campaign That Should Have Won World War II. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1993.
• Blumenson, Martin. The Duel for France, 1944. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.
• Harding, Stephen. The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013. - Battle for Castle Itter
• Kershaw, Alex. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2004.
• Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. - Operation Market Garden
• Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. - Normandy landings

Operation Bagration

• Adair, Paul. Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944. London: Arms and Armour, 1994.

Battle of Berlin

• Beevor, Antony. Berlin: The Downfall 1945. London: Viking, 2002.

Pacific theatre

• Costello, John. The Pacific War, 1941–1945. New York: Quill, 1982.
• Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Paine, S.C.M. The Wars for Asia 1911-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.
• Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan, Vintage Books, 1985.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Beekman, Allan. Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press, 1992.
• Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept. McGraw-Hill, 1981.
• Prange, Gordon W. Dec. 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Battle of Midway

• Parshall, Jonathan and Tully, Anthony. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2005.
• Prange, Gordon W. Miracle at Midway. McGraw-Hill, 1982.
• Symonds, Craig L. The Battle of Midway. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Tregaskis, Richard. Guadalcanal Diary. New York: Random House, 1943.

Operation Hailstone

• Lindemann, Klaus. Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon. Singapore: Maruzen Asia, 1982.

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Albee, Jr., Parker Bishop and Keller Cushing Freeman. Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995.

Battle of Okinawa

• Spurr, Russell. A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945. New York: Newmarket Press, 1981.

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Allen, Thomas B., and Norman Polmar. Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
• Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
• Pellegrino, Charles R. The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2010.
• Takayama, Hitoshi. Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today: Hiroshima as a Testimony of Peace for Mankind. 1973.
• Weller, George. Anthony Weller, ed. First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. New York: Crown, 2006.
• Yanagida, Kunio. A Blank in the Weather Map. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1975.

Strategic bombing

• Biddle, Tami Davis. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2002.
• Bishop, Patrick. Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940-1945. London: Harper Perennial, 2008.
• Brickhill, Paul. The Dam Busters. London: Evans Brothers, 1951.
• Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Bomber Aircrew in World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat. Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2004.
• Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. To Shatter the Sky: Bomber Airfield at War. Cambridge: P. Stephens, 1984.
• Friedrich, Jörg. The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Middlebrook, Martin. The Battle of Hamburg. London: Cassell, 2000.
• Middlebrook, Martin. The Berlin Raids. London: Cassell, 2000.
• Middlebrook, Martin. The Bomber Command War Diaries. London: Viking, 1985.
• Middlebrook, Martin. The Nuremberg Raid. London: Penguin, 1986.
• O'Neill, Brian D. Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.
• Overy, Richard. The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940–1945. New York: Viking, 2014.

Biographies or autobiographies

• Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
• Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001.
• Altner, Helmut. Berlin: Dance of Death. Translated by Tony Le Tissier. Havertown, Penn.: Casemate, 2002. - memoir
• Ambrose, Stephen. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
• Ambrose, Stephen. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys - The Men of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
• Ambrose, Stephen. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s Over Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
• Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin. London: Virago, 2005. - diary
• Baudouin, Paul. Private Diaries: March 1940-January 1941. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948.
• Barrett, Duncan and Nuala Calvi. GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love. London: Harper Collins, 2003.
• Beauvoir, Simone de. La Force des Choses [The Force of Things]. Paris: Gallimard, 1963.
• Beevor, Antony, and Lyuba Vinogradova (eds.) A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.
• Below, Nicolaus von. Als Hitler's Adjutant, 1937-194 [At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937-1945]. Mainz: Hase & Koehler, 1980.
• Berezkhov, Valentin. At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Dictator's Empire. Seacaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group, 1994.
• Berezkhov, Valentin. History in the Making: Memoirs of World War II Diplomacy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983.
• Beria, Sergo. Beria my Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin. London: Duckworth, 2001.
• Bezborodova, Irina, and Hermione Prügger. Generäle des Dritten Reich in sowjetischer Hand [Generals of the Third Reich in Soviet Hands]. Graz: Selbstverlag des Vereins zur Förderung der Forschung von Folgen nach Konflikten und Kriegen, 1998.
• Bidault, Georges. D'une résistance a l'autre [Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault]. Paris: Les Presses du Siécle, 1965.
• Blum, John Morton. Roosevelt and Morgenthau: A Revision and Condensation of From the Morgenthau Diaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
• Böll, Heinrich. Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 [Letters from the War 1939-1945]. Cologne: Kiepenhauer & Witsch, 2001.
• Bradley, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1951.
• Brissaud, Andre. Canaris: The Biography of Admiral Canaris, Chief of German Military Intelligence in the Second World War. Translated and edited by Ian Colvin. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974.
• Bruckner, Karl. The Day of the Bomb. Van Nostrand, 1962. - biography of Sadako Sasaki
• Calvert, James F. Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
• Chaney, Otto Preston, Jr. Zhukov. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
• Ciano, Count Galeazzo. Ciano’s Hidden Diary, 1937–1938. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1945
• Clark, Andrew. A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2003.
• Donovan, Robert J. PT-109: John F. Kennedy in WW II, 40th Anniversary Edition, McGraw Hill, 2001.
• Duffy, Peter. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. - Belarusians who resisted the Nazis
• Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. Orlando, FL.: Harcourt, 2002.
• Fraser, David. Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. New York: Harper, 1995.
• Gerwarth, Robert. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2011.
• Gilbert Martin. Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1983.
• Gilbert Martin. Road to Victory: Winston S. Churchill 1941–1945. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1986.
• Guderian, Heinz. Panzer Leader. Translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952.
• Halder, Franz. War Journal of Franz Halder. (vols. 1–8). United States: A.G. EUCOM, 1947.
• Halsey, William F., Jr., and J. Bryan, III. Admiral Halsey’s Story. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947.
• Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
• Joachimsthaler, Anton. The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth. Brockhampton Press, 1999.
• Johnson, Gudrun and Johan Gardner. Våre falne 1939-1945, ed. Arne Ording. Oslo: Norwegian Government, 1949-1951. (4 vols) - biographical dictionary
• Jordan, Jonathan W. American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II. New York: NAL Caliber, 2015.
• Jordan, Jonathan W.. Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe. New York: NAL Caliber, 2011.
• Jungk, Robert. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. San Diego: Harcourt, 1958.
• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1889–1936, Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1936–1945, Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
• Kirsch, Jonathan. The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013.
• Koerner, Brendan I. Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. New York: Penguin, 2008. - biography of Herman Perry
• Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers. Translated and edited by Strobe Talbott. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970.
• Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Longerich, Peter. Goebbels: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2015.
• MacArthur, Douglas. Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
• Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978.
• McNeal, Robert H. Stalin: Man and Ruler. New York: New York University Press, 1988.
• Moore, Gary W. Playing With the Enemy. New York: Penguin, 2006. - biography of baseball player Gene Moore
• Nagai, Takashi. The Bells of Nagasaki. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1949. - memoir of survivor of atomic bombings of Nagasaki
• Patton, George S. War as I Knew It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
• Patton, George S. The Patton Papers. Martin Blumenson (ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972-1974.
• Polansky, Paul. Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak. Self-published, 1998. - Romanis who lived in the Lety concentration camp
• Pogue, Forrest C. George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943–1945. New York: Viking, 1973.
• Pownall, Sir Henry. The Diaries of Sir Henry Pownall. Brian Bond (ed.). London: Leo Cooper, 1972.
• Ranković, Aleksandar. Traitor Draža Mihailović: In the Hands of the Authority of People's Power. Svoboda, 1947.
• Rees, Laurence. Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII. London: Ebury, 2008.
• Reid, Warren R., ed. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S Truman, 1945. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961.
• Sereny, Gitta. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
• Spears, Sir Edward. Assignment to Catastrophe. London: Heinemann, 1954. - memoir of British ambassador to France
• Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
• Suvorov, Viktor. Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990. - alleges Stalin manipulated Hitler into starting the war
• Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Beech Tree Books, 1995. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
• Wagner, Stephen and Sharon Wells Wagner. Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories of World War II. Booksurge, 2008. - collection of reminiscences from veterans
• Weigley, Russell. Eisenhower's Lieutenants. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1974.
• Wilson, Hugh, ed. The Ciano Diaries: 1939–1943. New York: Doubleday, 1946.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Ambrose, Stephen. Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.
• Ambrose, Stephen. Eisenhower: Soldier and President. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
• Ambrose, Stephen. Eisenhower: Soldier, General of the Army, President-Elect, 1890-1952. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
• Ambrose, Stephen. The Supreme Commander: The War Years of Dwight D. Eisenhower. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
• D'Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003.
• Eisenhower, David. Eisenhower at War, 1943-1945. New York: Random House, 1986.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. New York: Doubleday, 1948. - memoirs
• Eisenhower, John. General Ike. New York: Free Press, 2003.
• Krieg, Joann P. (ed.) Dwight D. Eisenhower, Soldier, President, Statesman. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
• Parmet, Herbert S. Eisenhower and the American Crusades. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
• Smith, Jean Edward. Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Random House, 2012.
• Wicker, Tom. Dwight D. Eisenhower. New York: Times Books, 2012.

Adolf Hitler

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Pope Pius XII

Harry S. Truman

Holocaust

Occupational policies of Nazi Germany

• Blood. Phillip W. Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books Inc., 2006.
• Fritzsche, Peter. An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 2016.
• Gregor, Neil, ed. Nazism, War and Genocide. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2008.
• Hale, Christopher. Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret. The History Press, 2011.
• Mazower, Mark. Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin, 2008.
• Winstone, Martin. The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2015.

Regional

• Axworthy, Mark, Cornel I. Scafes, and Cristian Crǎciuniou. Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941-1945. London: Arms and Armour, 1995.
• Bailey, Rosemary. Love and War in the Pyrenees: A Story of Courage, Fear and Hope, 1939-1944. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008
• Boca, Angelo Del. The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by P. D. Cummins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
• Corum, James S., Olaf Mertelsmann, and Kaarel Piirimaee, eds. The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
• De Jong, Loe. The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II. Amsterdam: Dutch Institute for War Documentation, 1969-1991. (14 vols) - official history
• Engen, Robert. Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Montreal: MQUP, 2009.
• Halbrook, Stephen. The Swiss and the Nazis. Philadelphia, PA: Casemate Pub, 2010.
• Kippenberger, Howard and Monty C. Fairbrother (eds.) Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45. Wellington: War History Branch, 1949-1986. (48 vols) - official history
• Littlejohn, David. The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45. London: Heinemann, 1972.
• Littlejohn, David. Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 1 Norway, Denmark, France. Bender Publishing, 1987.
• Long, Gavin (ed.). Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1952-1977. (22 vols) - official history
• Gilmour, John. Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh, GB: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
• Morgan, Philip. The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Motadel, David. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014.
• Sharfman, Daphna. Palestine in the Second World War: Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2014.
• Vehviläinen, Olli. Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Wiskemann, Elizabeth. The Rome-Berlin Axis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949.

China

• Brook, Timothy. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005.
• Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
• Smedley, Agnes. Battle Hymn of China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. - journalistic account of the Sino-Japanese War

France

• Amouroux, Henri. La Grande Histoire des Français sous l’Occupation. [The Grand History of the French Under Occupation]. Paris: R. Laffont, 1976-1993. (10 vols)
• Aron, Robert. France Reborn: The History of the Liberation, June 1944-May 1945. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1964.
• Davies, Peter. France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance. London: Routledge, 2001.
• King, David. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris. New York: Crown, 2011.

Germany

Japan

• Bradley, James. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.
• Forbes, Cameron. Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War. Sydney: Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005.
• Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore F. Cook, eds. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992.
• Lukacs, John D. Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War. New York: Penguin, 2010.
• Newman, Joseph. Goodbye Japan. New York: L.B. Fischer, 1942. - anti-Japanese propaganda
• Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Norway

• Derry, T. K. The Campaign in Norway. London, H.M. Stationary Off., 1952.
• Heimark, Brice. The OSS Norwegian Special Operations Group in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.
• Lunde, Henrik. Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate, 2009.
• Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, 1946. - Grini detention camp
• Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, 1995. - encyclopedia

Poland

• Davies, Norman. Rising '44. New York: Macmillan, 2003. - Warsaw Uprising
• Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Nałkowska, Zofia. Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999. - case studies of Nazi crimes against the Polish nation

Soviet Union

• Andreyev, Catherine. Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement, Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987.
• Applebaum, Anne. Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. New York: Doubleday, 2003.
• Bacon, Edwin. The Gulag at War: Stalin's Forced Labour System in Light of the Archives. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1994.
• Barber, John and Mark Harrison. The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. London: Longman, 1991.
• Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
• Glantz, David M. Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
• Gordin, I. (ed.) Nasha voina. [Our War]. Saint Petersburg: Izd-vo zhurnala "Zvezda", 2005.
• Merridale, Catherine. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York: Picador, 2006.
• Overy, Richard. Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941–1945. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
• Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
• Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
• Snyder, Timothy, and Ray Brandon, eds. Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928–1953. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

United Kingdom

• Beevor, J.G. SOE - Recollections and Reflections, 1940-1945. London: Bodley Head, 1981. - British intelligence (Special Operations Executive)
• Bennett, Ralph Francis. Ultra in the West: the Normandy Campiagn, 1944-45. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1980. - Bletchley Park
• Buchanan, Pat. Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. New York: Crown, 2007.
• Calder, Angus. The People’s War: Britain, 1939–1945. London: Panther, 1971.
• Cato. Guilty Men. London: V. Galancz, 1940. - anti-appeasement polemic
• Churchill, Sir Winston. While England Slept. London: George G. Harrap, 1938. - anti-appeasement polemic
• Donnelly, Mark. Britain in the Second World War. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• Gillman, Peter and Leni Gillman. Collar the Lot! How Britain Interned & Expelled its Wartime Refugees. Quartet Books, 1980.
• History of the Second World War. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1949-1993. - official history
• Hogg, Quintin. The Left Was Never Right. London: Faber and Faber, 1945. - anti-appeasement polemic
• Kennedy, John F. Why England Slept. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1940. - appeasement
• Ponting, Clive. 1940: Myth and Reality. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990.
• Wood, Ian S. Societies at War: Britain, Ireland and the Second World War. Edinburgh, GB: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

United States

• Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. - photographic account of the internment of Japanese Americans
• Adams, Michael C.C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993. - textbook
• Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
• Lily, J. Robert. Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe in World War II. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
• Malkin, Michelle. In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004.
• Minear, Richard H. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. New York: New Press, 1996.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1947-1962. (15 vols)
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963.
• Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. - Manhattan Project
• Roscoe, Theodore. United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1949.

Yugoslavia

• Dedijer, Vladimir. The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1992.
• Tolstoy, Nikolai. The Minister and the Massacres. London: Hutchinson, 1986. - Bleiburg repatriations

Post-war

• Applebaum, Anne. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York and London: Doubleday, 2012.
• Bacque, James. Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944–1950. London: Warner Books, 1997.
• Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Beevor, Antony, Artemis Cooper. Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
• Buruma, Ian. Year Zero: A History of 1945. New York: Penguin, 2013.
• Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000.
• Dallas, Gregor. 1945: The War That Never Ended. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005.
• Douglas, R. M. Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012.
• Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
• Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
• Gilbert, Felix, and David Clay Large. The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002.
• Hitchcock, William I. The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945 to the Present. New York: Anchor, 2004.
• Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
• Lafeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1966. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1967.
• Lowe Keith. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. New York: Picador, 2012.
• Lukacs, John. The Legacy of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale U. P., 2010.
• MacDonogh, Giles. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
• Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage, 2000.
• Plokhy, S. M. Yalta: The Price of Peace. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.
• Sheehan, James J. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Mariner Books, 2009.
• Tolstoy, Nikolai. Victims of Yalta. London: Corgi Books, 1977. - post-war repatriation of Soviet citizens
• Walker, Martin. The Cold War: A History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
• Weinberg, Gerhard, ed. Transformation of a Continent: Europe in the Twentieth-Century. Minneapolis, MN: Burgess Publishing Company, 1975.
• Zayas, Alfred-Maurice de. A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

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