This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

Overview[edit]

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  Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.


• Baudot, Marcel, et al. The Historical Encyclopedia of World War II. New York: MJF Books, 1989.


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  Beevor, Antony. The Second World War. London: Weidenfeld & 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.


• Bigelow, Barbara C, and Christine Slovey. World War II: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2000.


• Bishop, Chris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. New York: Metro Books, 2002.


• Burleigh, Michael. Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 2010.


• Calvocoressi, Peter, and Guy Wint. Total War: The Story of World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1972.


• Commager, Henry Steele. The Story of the Second World War. Washington DC: Brassey’s, 1991.


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  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., and M.R.D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.


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  Deighton, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. - covers from 1917 to 1941


• Ellis, John. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: Viking, 1990.


• Federal Republic of Germany, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. 13 vols. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1979–2008.


• Gilbert, Martin. The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989.


• Hanson, Victor Davis. The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. New York: Basic Books, 2017.


• Harrison, Mark. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.


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  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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.


• Hogg, Ian V. Dictionary of World War II. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Publishing, 1996.


• Ireland, Bernard, et al. Jane's Naval History of World War II. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.


• Keegan, John, ed. The Times Atlas of the Second World War. New York: Harper & Row, 1989


• Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking, 1989.


• Keegan, John. Who's Who In World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.


• Kitchen, Martin. A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London: Longman, 1990.


• Lyons, Michael J. World War II: A Short History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999.


• Mercer, Derrik, ed. Chronicle of the Second World War. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Group, 1990.


• Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.


• Milward, Alan. War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. London: Alan Lane, 1977.


• Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. (Harvard UP, 2000).


• Nardo, Don. World War II. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2005.


• Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.


• Overy, Richard, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. (Oxford UP, 2015).


• 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 and Thomas Allen. World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941–1945. New York: Random House, 1996; reprints have slightly different titles.)


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  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.


• Snell, John L. Illusion and Necessity: The Diplomacy of Global War, 1939–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.


• 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.


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  Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961.


• Tucker, Spencer, and Priscilla Mary Roberts, eds. World War II: A Student Encyclopedia. (5 vols.) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.


• Waller, John H. The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 1996.


• Ward, Geoffrey C., Ken Burns, and Lynn Novick. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2007.


• Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.


• Willmott, H.P. The Great Crusade. Dulles, VA.: Potomac Books Inc., 2008.


• Winkler, Heinrich August. The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.


• Wright, Gordon. The Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Atlases[edit]

• Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War (2009)


• Horrabin, J.F. An Atlas History Of The Second Great War (9 vol 1941-45) 7 vol are online free
  


• Hyslop, Stephen G., and Neil Kagan. Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography (2018).


• Keegan, John. The Times Atlas of the Second World War (1989).


• Smurthwaite, David. The Pacific War Atlas 1941-1945 (2000).


• Swanston, Alexander, and Malcolm Swanston. The Historical Atlas of World War II (2014)


• Young, Peter, and Richard Natkiel, eds. The Cassell Atlas of the Second World War. (2000).

Theatres[edit]

European theatre[edit]

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  Addison, Paul and Angus Calder (eds.) Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939–1945. London: Pimlico, 1997.


• 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.


• 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.


• Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin, 1945. New York: Penguin, 2002.


• Beevor, Antony. The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. New York: Viking, 2018.


• 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.


• Bower, Tom. Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe’s Jews and Holocaust Survivors. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.


• Burdick, Charles B. Germany’s Military Strategy and Spain in World War II. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968.


• Carlgren, W. M. Swedish Foreign Policy during the Second World War. Translated by Arthur Spencer. New York: St. Martin’s, 1977.


• Carter, Carolle J. The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1977.


• Cole, Hugh M. The Lorraine Campaign: The European Theater of Operations Series. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1950.


• Cornelius, Deborah S. Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.


• 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.


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  Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory. London: Macmillan, 2006.


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  De Jong, Loe. The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II. Amsterdam: Dutch Institute for War Documentation, 1969-1991. (14 vols) - official history


• Deletant, Dennis. Hitler’s Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.


• Dimbleby, Jonathan. The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.


• DiNardo, Richard. Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.


• Dreisziger, Nandor F., ed. Hungary and the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983.


• Duggan, John P. Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 1985.


• Dwyer, T. Ryle. Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutrality during World War II. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 2009.


• Edwards, Robert. The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–1940. New York: Pegasus, 2008.


• Fenyo, Mario D. Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972.


• Fisk, Robert. In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.


• Gawne, Jonathan. Spearheading D-Day: American Special Units, 6 June 1944. New York: Casemate, 1998.


• Giurescu, Dinu C. Romania in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2000.


• Grier, Howard D. Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich’s Last Hope, 1944–1945. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2007.


• Halbrook, Stephen. The Swiss and the Nazis. Philadelphia, PA: Casemate Pub, 2010.


• Hapgood, David. Monte Cassino: The Story of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002.


• Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.


• Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.


• Kaufmann, J.E., and Robert M. Jurga. Fortress Europe, European Fortifications of World War II. London: Greenhill Books, 1999.


• Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.


• Kershaw, Ian. To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949. New York: Viking, 2015.


• Knox, MacGregor. Hitler’s Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.


• Kreis, Georg, ed. Switzerland and the Second World War. London: Cass, 2000.


• Krosby, H. Peter. Finland, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940–1941: The Petsamo Dispute. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.


• Leitz, Christian. Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.


• Levine, Alan J. From the Normandy Beaches To The Baltic Sea: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944–1945. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.


• 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.


• Lukacs, John. Five Days in London, May 1940. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.


• Lunde, Henrik O. Finland’s War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2011.


• Gilmour, John. Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh, GB: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.


• Glantz, David M. Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.


• Macartney, Carlile A. October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929–1945. 2 vols. Edinburgh: University Press, 1956–7.


• Macdonald, Charles B. The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.


• Morgan, Philip. The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.


• Murray, Williamson. The Change in the European Balance of Power 1938–1939. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.


• O'Hara, Vincent. Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009.


• Payne, Stanley G. Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.


• Perry, Marvin. World War II in Europe: A Concise History. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing, 2013.


• Petrow, Richard. The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow, 1974.


• Pike, David Wingeate. Franco and the Axis Stigma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.


• Rachev, Stoyan. Anglo-Bulgarian Relations during the Second World War, 1939–1944. Translated by Stefan Kostov. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia, 1981.


• Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45. London: Routledge, 2007.


• Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Airborne Battle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.


• Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.


• Smith, Colin. England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940–1942. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.


• Statiev, Alexander. The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.


• Tamkin, Nicholas. Britain, Turkey, and the Soviet Union, 1940–45: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.


• Trotter, William R. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–40. New York: Algonquin, 1991.


• Thomas, R. T. Britain and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo-French Relations, 1940–42. New York: St. Martin’s, 1979.


• Ungvary, Krisztian. The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.


• Van Dyke, Carl. The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939–40. London: Cass, 1997.


• Vehviläinen, Olli. Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.


• Vintras, Roland E. The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History of the Azores Base. London: Bachman and Turner, 1974.


• Weber, Frank G. The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain, and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1979.


• Weber, Ronald. The Lisbon Route: Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe. Lanham, MD: Ivan R. Dee, 2011.


• Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany 1944–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.


• Weiss, Kenneth G. The Azores in Diplomacy and Strategy, 1940–1945. Alexandria, VA: Institute of Naval Studies, Center for Naval Analysis, 1980.


• Wilmot, Chester. The Struggle for Europe. New York: Harper, 1952.


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  Wiskemann, Elizabeth. The Rome-Berlin Axis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949.


• Wylie, Neville, ed. European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.


• Wylie, Neville. Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.


• Zabecki, David, ed. World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. (2 vols.) New York: Routledge, 1999.

Invasion of Poland[edit]

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  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.


• Rossino, Alexander B. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.


• Zaloga, Steven, and Victory Madej. The Polish Campaign, 1939. New York: Hippocrene, 1991.

Invasions of France and the Low Countries[edit]

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  Beaufre, André. The Fall of France. London: Cassell, 1967.


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  Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1968 [1946]. - Battle of France


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  Deighton, Len. Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979.


• Horne, Alistair. To Lose a Battle: France 1940. Boston: Little Brown, 1969.


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  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[edit]

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  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.


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  Deighton, Len. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.


• Holland, James. The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History, May–October 1940. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.


• 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[edit]

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

East African Campaign[edit]

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

North African Campaign[edit]

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


• Levine, Alan J. The War Against Rommel’s Supply Lines, 1942–1943. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999.

German-Soviet war (1941−45)[edit]

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


• Baker, Lee. The Second World War on the Eastern Front. London: Pearson Longman, 2009.


• Barber, John, and A. R. Dzeniskevich, eds. Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941–1944. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2005.


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  Bartov, Omer. The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.


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  Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. London: Viking, 1998.


• Bergstrom, Christer. Kursk: The Air Battle, July 1943. Hersham, UK: Classic Publications, 2007.


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  Boog, Horst, et al., eds. Germany and the Second World War. (Vol. 4 - The Attack on the Soviet Union). Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.


• Boog, Horst, et al., eds. Germany and the Second World War. (Vol. 6 - The Global War). Oxford: Clarendon, 2001.


• Citino, Robert M. Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.


• 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.


• Dunn, Walter S. Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.


• 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.


• Forczyk, Robert. Panther vs. T-34: Ukraine 1943. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007.


• Forczyk, Robert. Leningrad 1941–44: The Epic Siege. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009.


• Forczyk, Robert. Where Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941–44. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2014.


• 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.


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  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. The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.


• Glantz, David M. The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.


• 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.


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  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.


• Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.


• 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.


• Mawdsley, Evan. Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005.


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  Megargee, Geoffrey P. War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2006.


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  Müller, Rolf-Dieter and Gerd R. Ueberschär. Hitler’s War in the East, 1941–1945: A Critical Assessment. Oxford: Berghahn, 1997.


• Niepold, Gerd. Battle for White Russia: The Destruction of Army Group Center, June 1944. London: Brassey’s Defense Publishers, 1987.


• 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.


• Reinhardt, Klaus. Moscow: The Turning Point. Oxford: Berg, 1992.


• Roberts, Geoffrey. Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History. New York: Longman, 2002.


• Salisbury, Harrison E. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. London: Pan, 1969.


• Seaton, Albert. The Russo-German War, 1941–1945. London: Arthur Barker, 1971.


• Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.


• Stahel, David. Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.


• Zetterling, Niklas, and Anders Frankson. Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis. London: Frank Cass, 2000.


• 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[edit]

• Agarossi, Elena. A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of 1943. Translated by Harvey Fergusson II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.


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


• Ellwood, David. Italy, 1943–1945. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.


• Lamb, Richard. War in Italy 1943–1945: A Brutal Story. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.

Operation Bodyguard[edit]

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

Liberation of Europe[edit]

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  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.


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  Atkinson, Rick. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2013.


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  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.


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  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.


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  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
  


• Hart, Russell A. Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.


• Hastings, Max. Overlord: D-day and the Battlefor Normandy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.


• Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.


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  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.


• Knox, MacGregor. Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.


• Mitcham Jr., Samuel W. The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel’s Defense of Fortress Europe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.


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  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
  

Battle of Berlin[edit]

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

Pacific theatre[edit]

• Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. New York: Kodansha American Inc., 1979.


• Aldrich, Richard J. The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942.. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.


• Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War, 1941–45. London: Phoenix, 2002.


• Bell, Roger J. Unequal Allies: Australian–American Relations and the Pacific War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977.


• Bergerud, Eric M. Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.


• Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.


• Blair, Clay. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. New York: J.P. Lippincott Company, 1975.


• Bradley, John H., Jack W. Dice, Thomas B. Buell, and Thomas E. Griess. The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific Wayne, N.J: Avery Publishing Group, 1992.


• Campbell, John. Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985.


• Carpenter, Dorr, and Norman Polmar. Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986.


• Costello, John. The Pacific War, 1941–1945. New York: Quill, 1982.


• Cutler, Thomas J. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23–26 October 1944. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.


• Drea, Edward J. Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.


• Dunnigan, James. The Pacific War Encyclopedia. New York: Checkmark Books, 1998.


• Francillon, Robert. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979.


• Gamble, Bruce. Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942–April 1943. New York: Zenith Press, 2010.


• Hastings, Max. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. London: HarperCollins, 2007.


• Hoyt, Edwin P. The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.


• Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War: 1931–45. New York: Pantheon, 1978.


• Inoguchi Rikihei, Nakajima Tadashi, and Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 1958.


• Iriye, Akira. The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. New York and London: Longman, 1987.


• Lyman, Robert. Japan’s Last Bid for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944. Barnsley, UK: Praetorian, 2011.


• Maga, Timothy P. Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.


• Marston, Daniel, ed. The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Oxford: Osprey, 2010.


• McNalty, Bernard. War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. New York: Mayflower, 1978.


• 
  Paine, S.C.M. The Wars for Asia 1911-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.


• Rottman, Gordon L. U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.


• Sandler, Stanley, ed. World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2005.


• Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.


• Thompson, Robert S. Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.


• Thorne, Christopher. The Far Eastern War: States and Societies, 1941–45. London: Unwin, 1986.


• Willmott, H. P. The Second World War in the Far East. London: Cassell, 1999.


• Woolridge, E.T., ed. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Attack on Pearl Harbor[edit]

• 
  Beekman, Allan. Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press, 1992.


• Goldstein, Donald M., and Katherine V. Dillon, eds. The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1993.


• Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.


• 
  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.


• Rosenberg, Emily S. A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.


• Zimm, Alan D. Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. Philadelphia and Newbury: Casemate Publishers, 2011.

Battle of Midway[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Frank, Richard B. Guadalcanal. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.


• Hornfischer, James D. Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. New York: Bantam, 2011.


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

Operation Hailstone[edit]

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

Battle of Iwo Jima[edit]

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

Battle of Okinawa[edit]

• Feifer, George. Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1992.


• 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[edit]

• 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.


• Miscamble, Wilson D. The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.


• 
  Pellegrino, Charles R. The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2010.


• Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.


• Rotter, Andrew J. Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008


• 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[edit]

• 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; 562 pages; covers the civil defence and the impact on the home fronts of Allied strategic bombing of Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Scandinavia.


• Taylor, Frederick. Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

Biographies or autobiographies[edit]

• 
  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.


• Bird, Keith. Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006.


• 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.


• de Gaulle, Charles. War Memoirs. Vol. 1, The Call to Honor 1940–1942. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. New York: Viking, 1955.


• 
  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.


• Funk, Arthur L. Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943–1944. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.


• 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
  


• Jablonsky, David. War by Land, Sea, and Air: Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.


• 
  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 & Nicolson, 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[edit]

Occupational policies of Nazi Germany[edit]

• Berkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.


• Blood. Phillip W. Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Dulles, VA: Potomac Books Inc., 2006.


• Burrin, Philippe. France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise. New York: New Press, 1993.


• Dallin, Alexander. German Rule in Russia 1941–1945. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1981.


• 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.


• Shepherd, Ben. War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.


• Winstone, Martin. The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2015.

Regional[edit]

• Allen, Louis. Singapore 1941–1942. Wilmington: University of Delaware Press, 1977.


• Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R. The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.


• Boca, Angelo Del. The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by P. D. Cummins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.


• Deringil, Selim. Turkish Foreign Policy during the Second World War: An “Active” Neutrality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.


• Engen, Robert. Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Montreal: MQUP, 2009.


• Evans, Mark L. Great World War II Battles in the Arctic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.


• Francis, Michael J. The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1977.


• Frank, Gary. Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami, FL: University of Miami Press, 1979.


• Goda, Norman J. W. Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.


• Hirszowicz, Lukasz. The Third Reich and the Arab East. London: Routledge, 1966.


• Jellison, Charles A. Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1985.


• 
  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


• 
  Long, Gavin (ed.). Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1952-1977. (22 vols) - official history


• Mallmann, Klaus-Michael, and Martin Cüppers. Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Translated by Krista Smith. New York: Enigma, 2010.


• Mann, Chris, and Christer Jorgensen. Arctic War. New York: St. Martins Press, 2003.


• McCann, Frank D., Jr. The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.


• Moorhead, Alan, and John Keegan. Desert War: The North African Campaign, 1940–1943. New York: Penguin, 2001.


• Morison, Samuel Eliot. Operations in North African Waters: October 1942–June 1943. New York: Book Sales, Inc., 2001.


• Motadel, David. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014.


• Newton, Ronald C. The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931–1947. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992.


• Reynolds, E. Bruce. Thailand’s Secret War: The Free Thais, OSS, and SOE during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.


• Sharfman, Daphna. Palestine in the Second World War: Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2014.


• Woodman, Richard. Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. London: John Murray Publications Ltd., 1996.


• Zweig, Ronald W. Britain and Palestine during the Second World War. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.

China[edit]

• 
  Brook, Timothy. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005.


• Hsiung, James C., and, Steven I. Levine. China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937–1945. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992.


• Liu, Xiaoyuan. A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996.


• Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.


• Peattie, Mark, Edward Drea, and Hans Van De Ven, eds. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.


• Plating, John D. The Hump: America’s Strategy for Keeping China in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011.


• Sih, Paul K.T., ed. Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1977.


• 
  Smedley, Agnes. Battle Hymn of China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. - journalistic account of the Sino-Japanese War
  


• Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.


• Tuchman, Barbara. Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911–1945. New York: Bantam, 1972.


• Wen Ha-hsiung. History of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Tapei: Chung Wu Publishing Co., 1971.


• Yamaguchi, Noburu. "An Unexpected Encounter with Hybrid Warfare: The Japanese Experience in North China, 1937–1945." In Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present, edited by Williamson Murray and Peter R. Mansoor. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

France[edit]

• 
  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[edit]

Japan[edit]

• 
  Bradley, James. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.


• Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949.


• Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore F. Cook, eds. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992.


• Deacon, Richard. A History of the Japanese Secret Service. London: Fredrick Muller, 1982.


• 
  Forbes, Cameron. Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War. Sydney: Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005.


• Hayashi, Saburo and Alvin D. Coox. Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.


• Ienaga, Saburō. The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1978.


• 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[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 
  Davies, Norman. Rising '44. New York: Macmillan, 2003. - Warsaw Uprising
  


• Garliriski, Jozef. Poland in the Second World War. New York: Hippocrene, 1985.


• Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.


• Lukas, Richard C. The Strange Allies: The United States and Poland, 1941–1945. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978.


• 
  Nałkowska, Zofia. Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999. - case studies of Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
  


• Prażmovska, Anita J. Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.


• Terry, Sarah Meiklejohn. Poland’s Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939–1943. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Soviet Union[edit]

• 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.


• Armstrong, Richard N. Soviet Operational Deception: The Red Cloak. Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2008.


• 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.


• Braithwaite, Rodric. Moscow 1941: A City and Its People At War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.


• Dunn, Walter S. Stalin’s Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2006.


• Ellis, Frank. The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.


• Glantz, David M. Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.


• Glantz, David M. Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.


• Gorbachevsky, Boris. Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier’s War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.


• Gordin, I. (ed.) Nasha voina. [Our War]. Saint Petersburg: Izd-vo zhurnala "Zvezda", 2005.


• Gorodetsky, Gabriel. The Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.


• Hill, Alexander. The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.


• Hill, Alexander. The War Behind the Eastern Front: The Soviet Partisan Movement in North-West Russia, 1941-1944. Abingdon, Oxon: Frank Cass, 2005.


• Krivosheev, G. F., ed. Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. London: Greenhill, 1997.


• Krylova, Anna. Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.


• Merridale, Catherine. Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York: Picador, 2006.


• Miner, Steven Merritt. Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.


• 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.


• Parrish, Michael. The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.


• Reese, Roger R. Stalin’s Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army 1925–1941. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.


• Reese, Roger R. Why Stalin’s Soldiers Fought: The Red Army’s Military Effectiveness in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011.


• Seaton, Albert. Stalin as Warlord. London: Batsford, 1976.


• Shukman, Harold, ed. Stalin’s Generals. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993.


• 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.


• Stephan, Robert W. Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941–1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.


• Stone, David R., ed. The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword, 2010.


• Suvorov, Victor. The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008.


• Wegner, Bernd, ed. From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939–1941. Oxford: Berghahn, 1997.


• Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.


• Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941–1945. London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1964.

United Kingdom[edit]

• Beaumont, Joan. Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia, 1941−1945. London: Davis-Poynter, 1980.


• 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 Campaign, 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


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  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[edit]

• 
  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


• Andrade, Dale. Luzon: The United States Army Campaigns of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1996.


• Baer, George W. One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890–1990. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.


• Bentley, Amy. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.


• Bernstein, Alison R. American Indians and World War II. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.


• Binns, Stewart, et al. America at War in Color: Unique Images of the American Experience of World War II. London: Carlton, 2001.


• Blum, John Morton. V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1976.


• Breitman, Richard, et al. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.


• Campbell, D'Ann. Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.


• Clay Jr., Blair. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan. Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 2001.


• Cooke, Alistair. The American Home Front, 1941–1942. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.


• Crane, Conrad C. Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.


• Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1995.


• Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.


• Erenberg, Lewis A. and Susan E. Hirsch, eds. The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres, 1996.


• Greenfield, Kent R. American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.


• Hassel, Agostino von, Sigrid MacRae, and Simone Amerskamp. Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2006.


• Henderson, Aileen Kilgore. Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.


• Herman, Arthur. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. New York: Random House, 2012.


• Holm, Jeanne M., ed. In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II. Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1998.


• Jeffries, John W. Wartime America: The World War II Homefront. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1996.


• Jones, John B. The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939–1945. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2006.


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  Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.


• Kennett, Lee. G.I.: The American Soldier in World War II. New York: Schribner, 1987.


• Krammer, Arnold. Nazi Prisoners of War in America. Lanham, MD: Scarborough House, 1996.


• Kühl, Stefan. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.


• Lily, J. Robert. Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe in World War II. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.


• Linderman, Gerald F. The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II. New York: Free Press, 1997.


• Litoff, Judy Barett, and David C. Smith, eds. We're in this War Too: World War II Letters from Women in Uniform. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994


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  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.


• Miller, Donald L. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.


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  Minear, Richard H. Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. New York: New Press, 1996.


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  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.


• Motley, Mary Penick. The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldiers in World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University press, 1975.


• Okihiro, Gary Y. Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.


• O'Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. New York: Free Press, 1993.


• Province, Charles M. Patton’s Third Army: A Chronicle of the Third Army Advance, August, 1944 to May, 1945. New York: Hippocrene Books Inc., 1991.


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  Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. - Manhattan Project
  


• Samuel, Lawrence R. Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.


• Stoler, Mark A. Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.


• Terkel, Studs. "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon, 1984.


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  Roscoe, Theodore. United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute, 1949.


• Wise, Nancy B., and Christy Wise. A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994.


• Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1993.

Yugoslavia[edit]

• 
  Dedijer, Vladimir. The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1992.


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  Tolstoy, Nikolai. The Minister and the Massacres. London: Hutchinson, 1986. - Bleiburg repatriations
  


• Tomasevich, Jozo. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Historiography[edit]

• Loyd, E. Lee, ed.; World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research Greenwood Press. 1997. 525pp bibliographic guide


• Loyd, E. Lee, ed.; World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research Greenwood Press, 1998

Home front[edit]

• Beck, Earl R. The European Home Fronts, 1939–1945 Harlan Davidson, 1993,


• Bohm-Duchen, Monica. Art and the Second World War (Princeton University Press; 2014)


• Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939–1945 1985. US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes
  


• Geyer, Michael and Adam Tooze, eds. (2017) The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture
  


• Harrison, Mark, ed. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.


• Higonnet, Margaret R., et al., eds. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.


• Marwick, Arthur. War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States 1974.


• Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2009)


• Milward, Alan. War, Economy and Society 1977


• Noakes, Jeremy ed., The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1992.


• Overy, Richard. The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940–1945. New York: Viking, 2014.


• Toynbee, Arnold, ed. Survey Of International Affairs: Hitler's Europe 1939-1946 (1954)

Post-war[edit]

• 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.


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  Beevor, Antony, Artemis Cooper. Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949. New York: Doubleday, 1994.


• Breitman, Richard, and Norman J.W. Goda. Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2010.


• 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.


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  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.


• Jarausch, Konrad. Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.


• 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, 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 University Press, 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.


• Naimark, Norman M. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.


• Plokhy, S. M. Yalta: The Price of Peace. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.


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  Sheehan, James J. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Mariner Books, 2009.


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  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.


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  Zayas, Alfred-Maurice de. A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Nuremberg Trials[edit]