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General Histories

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Origins/Causes/Preludes

Adamthwaite, Anthony P. The Making of the Second World War. Historical Problems: Studies and Documents 28. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1977.

Bell, P. M. H. The Origins of the Second World War in Europe. New York: Longman, 1986.

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Aircraft and Aerial Warfare

Ambrose, Stephen E. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Arnold, Henry H. Global Mission. New York: Harper, 1949.

Biddle, Tami Davis. Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Boyne, Walter J. Clash of Wings: Air Power in World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

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Edoin, Hoito. The Night Tokyo Burned. New York: St. Martin’s, 1987.

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Garrett, Stephen A. Ethics and Airpower in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities. New York: St. Martin’s, 1993.

Glines, Carroll V. The Doolittle Raid: America’s Daring First Strike against Japan. New York: Orion Books, 1988.

Harper, Stephen. Miracle of Deliverance: The Case for the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. New York: Stein and Day, 1986.

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Hough, Richard, and Denis Richards. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II. New York: Norton, 1989.

Inoguchi, Rikinei, Tadashi Nakajima, and Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind: Japan’s Kamikaze Force in World War II. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1958.

Irving, David John Caldwell. The Destruction of Dresden. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

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Lowden, John L. Silent Wings at War: Combat Gliders in World War II. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

Lundstrom, John B. The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984.

MacIsaac, David. Strategic Bombing in World War Two: The Story of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey. New York: Garland, 1976.

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Middlebrook, Martin. The Nuremberg Raid, 30–31 March 1944. New York: Morrow, 1974.

Middlebrook, Martin. The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission. New York: Scribner, 1983.

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Millot, Bernard. Divine Thunder: The Life and Death of the Kamikazes. New York: McCall, 1971.

Muller, Richard. The German Air War in Russia. Baltimore: Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1992.

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Neillands, Robin. The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive against Nazi Germany. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2001.

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Naval Warfare

Belote, James H., and William M. Belote. Titans of the Seas: The Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces during World War II. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.

Bercuson, David Jay, and Holger H. Herwig. The Destruction of the Bismarck . Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2001.

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Boyne, Walter J. Clash of Titans: World War II at Sea. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Breuer, William B. Devil Boats: The PT War against Japan. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1987.

Carse, Robert. A Cold Corner of Hell: The Story of the Murmansk Convoys, 1941–1945. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.

Compton-Hall, Richard. The Underwater War, 1939–1945. New York: Sterling, 1982.

Creswell, John. Sea Warfare, 1939–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

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

Elphick, Peter. Liberty: The Ships That Won the War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Farago, Ladislas. The Tenth Fleet. New York: I. Obolensky, 1962.

Gannon, Michael. Operation DRUMBEAT: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks along the American Coast in World War II. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.

Goodhart, Philip. Fifty Ships That Saved the World: The Foundation of the Anglo-American Alliance. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965.

Hague, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System, 1939–1945: Its Organization, Defence, and Operation. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.

Hughes, Terry, and John Costello. The Battle of the Atlantic. New York: Dial, 1977.

Irving, David John Caldwell. The Destruction of Convoy PQ. 17. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.

Kennedy, Ludovic. Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck. New York: Viking, 1974.

Krug, Hans-Joachim. Reluctant Allies: German-Japanese Naval Relations in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Marder, Arthur J. Old Friends, New Enemies: The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, 1990.

Marder, Arthur J. Operation MENACE: The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

Middlebrook, Martin. Convoy. New York: Morrow, 1977.

Milner, Marc. North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II. 15 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947–1962.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Strategy and Compromise. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.

Pope, Dudle. 73 North: The Defeat of Hitler’s Navy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1958.

Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.

Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon. Miracle at Midway. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon. Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Roscoe, Theodore. United States Destroyer Operations in World War II. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1953.

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

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Roskill, Stephen W. Naval Policy between the Wars. 2 vols. New York: Walker, 1969–76.

Ruge, Friedrich. Der Seekrieg: The German Navy’s Story, 1939–1945. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957.

Runyan, Timothy J., and Jan M. Coopes. To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994.

Rusbridger, James, and Eric Nave. Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II. New York: Summit Books, 1991.

Scalia, Joseph M. Germany’s Last Mission to Japan: The Failed Voyage of U-234. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2000.

Stanton, Doug. In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors. New York: Holt, 2001.

Syrett, David. The Defeat of the German U-Boats: The Battle of the Atlantic. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

Van der Vat, Dan. The Atlantic Campaign: World War II’s Great Struggle at Sea. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

Van der Vat, Dan. The Pacific Campaign: World War II; The U.S.-Japanese Naval War, 1941–1945. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Von der Porten, Edward P. The German Navy in World War II. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1969.

Winslow, Walter G. The Fleet the Gods Forgot: The U.S. Asiatic Fleet in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.

Eastern Front

Allen, Paul. Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Polish Massacre. New York: Scribner, 1991.

Bartov, Omer. The Eastern Front, 1941–45: German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.

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

Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943. New York: Viking, 1998.

Carell, Paul. Hitler Moves East, 1941–1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

Carell, Paul. Scorched Earth: The Russian-German War, 1943–1944. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.

Chuikov, V. I. The Battle for Stalingrad. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964.

Chuikov, V. I. The Fall of Berlin. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.

Clark, Alan. Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941–1945. New York: W. Morrow, 1965.

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

Erickson, John. The Road to Berlin: Continuing the History of Stalin’s War with Germany. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1983.

Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.

Fritz, Stephen G. Ostkrieg: Hitler’s War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011.

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

Glantz, David M., and Jonathan M. House. The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.

Glantz, David M., and Jonathan M. House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Goldhurst, Richard. The Midnight War: The American Intervention in Russia, 1918–1920. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.

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

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

Jakobson, Max. The Diplomacy of the Winter War: An Account of the Russo-Finnish War, 1939–1940. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961.

Müller, Rolf-Dieter, and Gerd R. Ueberschär. Hitler’s War in the East, 1941–1945: A Critical Assessment. Translated by Bruce D. Little. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1997.

Overy, R. J. Russia’s War. New York: Penguin, 1998.

Roberts, Geoffrey. Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle That Changed History. London: Longman, 2002.

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

Salisbury, Harrison E. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.

Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941–1945. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1964.

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.

Western Front

Adair, Paul. Hitler’s Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944. London: Blackhampton, 1994.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944–May 7, 1945. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Ambrose, Stephen E. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Bacque, James. Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II. Toronto: Stoddart, 1989.

Barker, A. J. Dunkirk: The Great Escape. London: Dent, 1977.

Bischof, Günther, and Stephen E. Ambrose. Eisenhower and the German POWs: Facts against Falsehood. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

Blumenson, Martin. Anzio: The Gamble That Failed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.

Breuer, William B. Operation Dragoon: The Allied Invasion of Southern France. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1987.

Carafano, James Jay. After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.

Carse, Robert. Dunkirk, 1940: A History. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1970.

D’Este, Carlo. Decision in Normandy. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983.

Divine, David. The Nine Days of Dunkirk. New York: Norton, 1959.

Eisenhower, John S. D. The Bitter Woods: Hitler’s Surprise Ardennes Offensive. New York: Putnam, 1969.

Frieser, Karl-Heinz. The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2005.

Harman, Nicholas. Dunkirk: The Patriotic Myth. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980.

Hart, Russell A. Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001.

Hastings, Max. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

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

Howarth, David Armine. D-Day: The Sixth of June, 1944. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. The Invasion before Normandy: The Secret Battle of Slapton Sands. New York: Stein and Day, 1985.

Jacobsen, Hans Adolf, and Jürgen Rohwer. Decisive Battles of World War II: The German View. New York: Putnam, 1965.

Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, June 6th–August 25th, 1944. New York: Viking, 1982.

Kershaw, Robert J. It Never Snows in September: The German View of Market-Garden and the Battle of Arnhem, September, 1944. New York: Hippocrene, 1994.

Lewis, Adrian R. Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Lord, Walter. The Miracle of Dunkirk. New York: Viking, 1982.

Ludewig, Joachim. Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.

Lukacs, John. The Duel: 10 May–31 July 1940: The Eighty-Day Struggle between Churchill and Hitler. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1991.

MacDonald, Charles B. A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York: Morrow, 1984.

McManus, John C. September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far. New York: NAL Caliber, 2012.

May, Ernest R. Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.

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

Nobécourt, Jacques. Hitler’s Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge. New York: Schocken Books, 1967.

Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Ryan, Cornelius. The Last Battle. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

Ryan, Conelius. The Longest Day: June 6, 1944. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

Toland, John. Battle: The Story of the Bulge. New York: Random House, 1959.

Toland, John. The Last 100 Days. New York: Random House, 1966.

Van Creveld, Martin. Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939–1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982.

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

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

North Africa/Middle East

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

Barnett, Correlli. The Desert Generals. New York: Viking, 1961.

Bierman, John, and Colin Smith. The Battle of Alamein: Turning Point, World War II. New York: Viking, 2002.

Bungay, Stephen. Alamein. London: Aurum, 2002.

Carver, Michael. Dilemmas of the Desert War: A New Look at the Libyan Campaign, 1940–1942. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Clayton, Tim, and Phil Craig. The End of the Beginning: From the Siege of Malta to the Allied Victory at El Alamein. New York: Free Press, 2002.

Greene, Jack, and Alessandro Massignani. Rommel’s North Africa Campaign, September 1940–November 1942. Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, 1994.

Funk, Arthur Layton. The Politics of TORCH: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974.

Kelly, Orr. Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa; From Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia. New York: Wiley, 2002.

Kelly, Saul. The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War. London: John Murray, 2002.

Latimer, Jon. Alamein. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Steele, Richard W. The First Offensive, 1942: Roosevelt, Marshall, and the Making of American Strategy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.

Verrier, Anthony. Assassination in Algiers: Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Murder of Admiral Darlan. New York: Norton, 1990.

Mediterranean/Italian Campaign/Balkans

Ansel, Walter. Hitler and the Middle Sea. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1972.

Beevor, Antony. Crete: The Battle and the Resistance. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994.

Bradford, Ernle Dusgate Selby. Siege: Malta, 1940–1943. New York: Morrow, 1986.

Clark, Alan. The Fall of Crete. New York: Morrow, 1962.

D’Este, Carlo. Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1988.

D’Este, Carlo. Fateful Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Higgins, Trumbull. Soft Underbelly: The Anglo-American Controversy over the Italian Campaign, 1939–1945. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Higham, Robin D. S. Diary of a Disaster: British Aid to Greece, 1940–1941. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Howard, Michael. The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War. New York: Praeger, 1968.

Hoyt, Edwin P. Backwater War: The Allied Campaign in Italy, 1943–1945. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Jackson, W. G. F. The Battle for Italy. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Jellison, Charles A. Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1984.

Jones, Matthew. Britain, the United States, and the Mediterranean War, 1942–1944. New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.

Lamb, Richard. War in Italy, 1943–1945: A Brutal Story. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994.

Lees, Michael. The Rape of Serbia: The British Role in Tito’s Grab for Power, 1943–1944. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Macmillan, Harold. War Diaries: Politics and War in the Mediterranean, January 1943–May 1945. New York: St. Martin’s, 1984.

Majdalany, Fred. Cassino: Portrait of a Battle. London: Longmans, Green, 1957.

Sheehan, Fred. Anzio: Epic of Bravery. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.

Shepperd, G. A. The Italian Campaign, 1943–45: A Political and Military Re-Assessment. New York: Praeger, 1968.

Van Creveld, Martin. Hitler’s Strategy, 1940–1941: The Balkan Clue. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Northern Europe/Scandinavia

Chew, Allen F. The White Death: The Epic of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1971.

Claasen, Adam R. A. Hitler’s Northern War: The Luftwaffe’s Ill-Fated Campaign, 1940–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

Gallagher, Thomas M. Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Bomb. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.

Kersaudy, François. Norway 1940. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.

Mann, Chris, and Christer Jörgensen. Hitler’s Arctic War: The German Campaigns in Norway, Finland, and the USSR, 1940–1945. New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, 2003.

Moulton, J. L. A Study of Warfare in Three Dimensions: The Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1968.

Van Dyke, Carl. The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939–40. Portland, OR: F. Cass, 1997.

Pacific

Albright, Harry. Pearl Harbor: Japan’s Fatal Blunder; The True Story behind Japan’s Attack on December 7, 1941. New York: Hippocrene, 1988.

Alexander, Bevin. The Strange Connection: U.S. Intervention in China, 1944–1972. New York: Greenwood, 1992.

Alexander, Joseph H. Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Alexander, Joseph H. Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War, 1941–45. New York: St. Martin’s, 1984.

Allen, Louis. Singapore, 1941–1942. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1979.

Allen, Thomas B., and Norman Polmar. Code-Name DOWNFALL: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Bagby, Wesley M. The Eagle-Dragon Alliance: America’s Relations with China in World War II. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992.

Bartsch, William H. December 8, 1941: MacArthur’s Pearl Harbor. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.

Beach, Edward L. Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

Bergerud, Eric M. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Viking, 1996.

Best, Antony. Britain, Japan, and Pearl Harbor: Avoiding War in East Asia, 1936–41. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Bidwell, Shelford. The Chindit War: Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma, 1944. New York: Macmillan, 1980.

Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Blair, Clay. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.

Borg, Dorothy. The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis of 1933–1938: From the Manchurian Incident through the Initial Stage of the Undeclared Sino-Japanese War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Borg, Dorothy, and Shumpei Okamoto, eds. Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931–1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973.

Breuer, William B. The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor. New York: Wiley, 1994.

Callahan, Raymond. Burma, 1942–1945. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1979.

Callahan, Raymond. The Worst Disaster: The Fall of Singapore. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1977.

Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York: BasicBooks, 1997.

Conroy, Hilary, and Harry Wray. Pearl Harbor Reexamined: Prologue to the Pacific War. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

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

Costello, John. Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill; The Shocking Truth Revealed: How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

Daws, Gavan. Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific. New York: W. Morrow, 1994.

Day, David. The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia, and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939–42. New York: Norton, 1989.

Donnison, F. S. V. British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943–46. London: HMSO, 1956.

Dorn, Frank. The Sino-Japanese War, 1937–41: From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor. New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Dorn, Frank. Walkout: With Stilwell in Burma. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1971.

Dower, John W. War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1978.

Dunnigan, James F., and Albert A. Nofi. Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacific. New York: William Morrow, 1995.

Elphick, Peter. Singapore: The Pregnable Fortress; A Study in Deception, Discord, and Desertion. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.

Falk, Stanley L. Bataan: The March of Death. New York: Norton, 1962.

Falk, Stanley L. Decision at Leyte. New York: Norton, 1966.

Falk, Stanley L. Seventy Days to Singapore. New York: Putnam, 1975.

Feis, Herbert. The China Tangle: The American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953.

Fischer, Edward. The Chancy War: Winning in China, Burma, and India in World War Two. New York: Orion Books, 1991.

Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1999.

Frank, Richard B. Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. New York: Random House, 1990.

Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya. Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan; The Japanese Navy’s Story. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1955.

Gailey, Harry A. Bougainville, 1943–1945: The Forgotten Campaign. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991.

Garfield, Brian. The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.

Gilmore, Allison B. You Can’t Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Glantz, David M. August Storm: The Soviet 1945 Strategic Offensive in Manchuria. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1984.

Glines, Carroll V. Attack on Yamamoto. New York: Orion Books, 1990.

Goldstein, Donald M., and Katherine V. Dillon. The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 1993.

Griffith, Samuel B. The Battle for Guadalcanal. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.

Haggie, Paul. Britannia at Bay: The Defence of the British Empire against Japan, 1931–1941. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Hallas, James H. The Devil’s Anvil: The Assault on Peleliu. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.

Hammel, Eric M. Guadalcanal: The Carrier Battles; Carrier Operations in the Solomons, August–October 1942. New York: Crown, 1987.

Hammel, Eric M. Guadalcanal: Decision at Sea: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, November 13–15, 1942. New York: Crown, 1988.

Hammel, Eric M. Guadalcanal: Starvation Island. New York: Crown, 1987.

Harries, Meirion, and Susie Harries. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House, 1991.

Hayashi, Saburo. Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps Association, 1959.

Honan, William H. Visions of Infamy: The Untold Story of How Journalist Hector C. Bywater Devised the Plans That Led to Pearl Harbor. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.

Hough, Frank O. The Island War: The United States Marine Corps in the Pacific. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1947.

Hough, Frank O., et al. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Washington, DC: Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1958–1971.

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Blue Skies and Blood: The Battle of the Coral Sea. New York: S. Eriksson, 1975.

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970.

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. The Lonely Ships: The Life and Death of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. New York: McKay, 1976.

Iriye, Akira. Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Iriye, Akira, and Warren I. Cohen. American, Chinese, and Japanese Perspectives on Wartime Asia, 1931–1949. Wilmington, DE: S. R. Books, 1990.

Kirby, S. Woodburn. Singapore: The Chain of Disaster. New York: Macmillan, 1971.

Kirby, S. Woodburn, et al. The War against Japan. 5 vols. London: HMSO, 1957.

Knox, Donald. Death March: The Survivors of Bataan. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.

Leary, William M. We Shall Return! MacArthur’s Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Leckie, Robert. Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II. New York: Viking, 1995.

Lockwood, Charles A., and Hans Christian Adamson. Battles of the Philippine Sea. New York: Crowell, 1967.

Lord, Walter. Day of Infamy. New York: H. Holt, 2001.

Lord, Walter. Incredible Victory. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Lord, Walter. Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons. New York: Viking, 1977.

Maga, Timothy P. America Attacks Japan: The Invasion That Never Was. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.

Merillat, H. C. L. Guadalcanal Remembered. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1982.

Miller, Edward S. War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991.

Mintz, Frank P. Revisionism and the Origins of Pearl Harbor. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985.

Moser, Don. China, Burma, India. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1978.

Newcomb, Richard F. Abandon Ship! The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy’s Greatest Sea Disaster. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

Newcomb, Richard F. Iwo Jima. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

Newcomb, Richard F. Savo: The Incredible Naval Debacle off Guadalcanal. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

Ogburn, Charlton. The Marauders. New York: Harper, 1959.

Parillo, Mark P. The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993.

Schaller, Michael. The U.S. Crusade in China, 1938–1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Skates, John Ray. The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994.

Spector, Ronald H. Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985.

Tarling, Nicholas. A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941–1945. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001.

Theobald, Robert A. The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor: The Washington Contribution to the Japanese Attack. New York: Devin-Adair, 1954.

Thomas, David A. The Battle of the Java Sea. New York: Stein and Day, 1969.

Thorne, Christopher G. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Thorne, Christopher G. The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Toland, John. But Not in Shame: The Six Months after Pearl Harbor. New York: Random House, 1961.

Toland, John. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982.

Tsuji, Masanobu. Singapore: The Japanese Version. New York: St. Martin’s, 1961.

Warner, Denis, Peggy Warner, and Sadao Senoo. Disaster in the Pacific: New Light on the Battle of Savo Island. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992.

Warren, Alan. Singapore, 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. New York: Hambledon, 2002.

Willmott, H. P. The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1983.

Willmott, H. P. Pearl Harbor. London: Cassell, 2001.

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

Wilson, Dick. When Tigers Fight: The Story of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. New York: Viking, 1982.

Australia

Day, David. Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan, 1942–45. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Gill, G. Hermon. Royal Australian Navy, 1942–1945. 2 vols. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1957, 1968.

Horner, D. M. High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy, 1939–1945. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1982.

Long, Gavin, ed. Australia in the War of 1939–1945. 22 vols. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1952–1972.

Moore, John H. Over-Sexed, Over-Paid, and Over Here: Americans in Australia, 1941–1945. New York: University of Queensland Press, 1981.

Canada

Bercuson, David Jay. Maple Leaf against the Axis: Canada’s Second World War. Toronto: Stoddart, 1995.

Douglas, W. A. B., and Brereton Greenhous. Out of the Shadows: Canada in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Goddard, Lance. D-Day: Juno Beach, Canada’s 24 Hours of Destiny. Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2004.

Horn, Bernd, and Michel Wyczynski. Paras versus the Reich: Canada’s Paratroopers at War, 1942–45. Toronto: Dundurn Group, 2003.

Stacey, C. P. Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. 3 vols. Ottawa: E. Cloutier, Queen’s Printer, 1955–60.

China

Dreyer, Edward L. China at War, 1901–1949. New York: Longman, 1995.

Hsi-sheng, Chi. Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982.

Hsiung, James Chieh, and Steven I. Levine. China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1992.

Matsusaka, Yoshihisa Tak. The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904–1932. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001.

Snow, Edgar. Red Star over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism. New York: Grove, 1968.

France

Aron, Robert. The Vichy Regime, 1940–44. New York: Macmillan, 1958.

Auphan, Admiral, and Jacques Mordal. The French Navy in World War II. Translated by A. C. J. Sabalot. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1959.

Beaufre, André. 1940: The Fall of France. New York: Knopf, 1968.

Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. New York: Octagon Books, 1968.

Collins, Larry, and Dominique Lapierre. Is Paris Burning? Adolf Hitler, August 25, 1944. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Doughty, Robert A. The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919–1939. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1985.

Ehrlich, Blake. Resistance: France, 1940–1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

Fishman, Sarah. The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime, and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Everyday Life in the French Heartland under the German Occupation. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.

Jackson, Julian. France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944. New York: Oxford, 2001.

Jennings, Eric Thomas. Vichy in the Tropics: Pétain’s National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940–1944. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Lattre, Jean de. The History of the French First Army. London: Allen and Unwin, 1952.

Nossiter, Adam. The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Paxton, Robert O. Parades and Politics at Vichy: The French Officer Corps under Marshal Pétain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944. New York: Knopf, 1972.

Shirer, William L. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.

Germany

Barnett, Correlli. Hitler’s Generals. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.

Baumbach, Werner. The Life and Death of the Luftwaffe. New York: Coward-McCann, 1960.

Berghahn, Volker R., and Martin Kitchen, eds. Germany in the Age of Total War. Totowa, NJ: Barnes and Noble, 1981.

Bessel, Richard, ed. Life in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford, 1987.

Boelcke, Willi A., ed. The Secret Conferences of Dr. Goebbels: The Nazi Propaganda War, 1939–43. Translated by Ewald Osers. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1970.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Letters and Papers from Prison. Edited by Eberhard Bethge. Translation of Widerstand und Ergebung. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Buchheim, Lothar G. Das Boot. 1st American ed. Translation of U-Boot-Krieg. Translated by Gudie Lawaetz. New York: Knopf, 1975.

Deutsch, Harold C. The Conspiracy against Hitler in the Twilight War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968.

Deutsch, Harold C. Hitler and His Generals: The Hidden Crisis, January–June, 1938. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974.

Fest, Joachim C. The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of Nazi Leadership. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.

Fritz, Stephen G. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.

Germany, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt. Germany and the Second World War. 9 vols. of 10. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990–.

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

Higgins, Trumbull. Hitler and Russia: The Third Reich in a Two-Front War, 1937–1943. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Höhne, Heinz. The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s S.S. New York: Coward-McCann, 1970.

Homze, Edward L. Arming the Luftwaffe: The Reich Air Ministry and the German Aircraft Industry, 1919–1939. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976.

Irving, David John Caldwell. The War Path: Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939. New York: Viking, 1978.

Jacobsen, Hans Adolf, and Hans Royce. July 20, 1944: The German Opposition to Hitler as Viewed by Foreign Historians. Bonn: Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, 1969.

Kershaw, Ian. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Penguin, 2011.

Kershaw, Ian. The “Hitler Myth”: Image and Reality in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford, 1987.

Megargee, Geoffrey P. Inside Hitler’s High Command. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.

Milward, Alan S. The German Economy at War. London: University of London, Athlone, 1965.

Mulligan, Timothy. Neither Sharks nor Wolves: The Men of Nazi Germany’s U-Boat Arm, 1939–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1999.

Perrett, Bryan. A History of Blitzkrieg. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.

Rich, Norman. Hitler’s War Aims: Ideology, the Nazi State, and the Course of Expansion. New York: Norton, 1973.

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

Stein, George H. The Waffen SS: Hitler’s Elite Guard at War, 1939–1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.

Taylor, Telford. Sword and Swastika: Generals and Nazis in the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1952.

Trevor-Roper, H. R., ed. Blitzkrieg to Defeat: Hitler’s War Directives, 1939–1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

Waite, Robert G. L. Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Post-War Germany, 1918–1923. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952.

Warlimont, Walter. Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, 1939–45. New York: F. A. Praeger, 1964.

Wheeler-Bennett, John W. The Nemesis of Power: The Germany Army in Politics, 1918–1945. New York: St. Martin’s, 1964.

Ireland

Fisk, Robert. In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–45. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

Italy

Agarossi, Elena. A National Collapse: The Italian Surrender of September 1943. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Graham, Dominick, and Shelford Bidwell. Tug of War: The Battle for Italy, 1943–1945. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.

Lewis, Norman. Naples ’44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

Trevelyan, Raleigh. Rome ’44: The Battle for the Eternal City. New York: Viking, 1982.

Japan

Andrieu d’Albas, Emmanuel M. A. Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. New York: Devin-Adair, 1957.

Beasley, W. G. Japanese Imperialism, 1894–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Bergamini, David. Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy. New York: Morrow, 1971.

Brooks, Lester. Behind Japan’s Surrender: The Secret Struggle That Ended an Empire. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967.

Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton, 1999.

Elsbree, Willard H. Japan’s Role in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements, 1940 to 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.

Evans, David C., and Mark R. Peattie. Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887–1941. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997.

Harries, Meirion, and Susie Harries. Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House, 1991.

Hicks, George L. The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War. New York: Norton, 1995.

Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931–1945. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

Ike, Nobutaka. Japan’s Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1967.

Jones, Francis Clifford. Japan’s New Order in East Asia: Its Rise and Fall, 1937–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954.

Nakamura, Masanori. The Japanese Monarchy: Ambassador Joseph Grew and the Making of the “Symbol Emperor System,” 1931–1991. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1992.

Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945. New York: Random House, 1970.

Williams, Peter, and David Wallace. Unit 731: Japan’s Secret Biological Warfare in World War II. New York: Free Press, 1989.

Poland

Ciechanowski, Jan M. The Warsaw Rising of 1944. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Davies, Norman. Rising, ’44: The Battle for Warsaw. 1st American ed. New York: Viking, 2004.

Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Korbonski, Stefan. The Polish Underground State: A Guide to the Underground, 1939–1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

Lukas, Richard C. The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939–1944. 3rd ed. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2012.

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

Spain

Beevor, Antony. The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. New York: Penguin, 2006.

Broué, Pierre, and Emile Témime. The Revolution and Civil War in Spain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972.

Jackson, Gabriel. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.

Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961.

Soviet Union

Bialer, Seweryn. Stalin and His Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II. New York: Pegasus, 1969.

Gallagher, Matthew P. The Soviet History of World War II: Myths, Memories, and Realities. New York: Praeger, 1963.

Roberts, Geoffrey. Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.

Weiner, Amir. Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941–1945. New York: Dutton, 1964.

United Kingdom

Addison, Paul. The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War. London: Cape, 1975.

Agar, Herbert. The Darkest Year: Britain Alone, June 1940–June 1941. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973.

Ash, Bernard. Someone Had Blundered: The Story of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960.

Barnett, Correlli. Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War. New York: Norton, 1991.

Calder, Angus. The People’s War: Britain, 1939–1945. New York: Pantheon, 1969.

Hough, Richard, and Denis Richards. The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II. 1st American ed. New York: Norton, 1989.

Mosley, Leonard. Backs to the Wall: The Heroic Story of the People of London during World War II. New York: Random House, 1971.

Olson, Lynne. Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour. New York: Random House, 2010.

Ponting, Clive. 1940: Myth and Reality. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1991.

Ruggiero, John. Neville Chamberlain and British Rearmament: Pride, Prejudice, and Politics. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.

Ziegler, Philip. London at War, 1939–1945. New York: Knopf, 1995.

United States of America

Buchanan, Albert Russell. The United States and World War II. 2 vols. New York: Harper and Row, 1964.

Eller, Cynthia. Conscientious Objectors and the Second World War: Moral and Religious Arguments in Support of Pacifism. New York: Praeger, 1991.

Girdner, Audrie, and Anne Loftis. The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Greenfield, Kent Roberts. American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963.

Hayes, Grace P. The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in World War II: The War against Japan. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.

Hearden, Patrick J. Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: America’s Entry into World War II. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987.

James, D. Clayton, and Anne Sharp Wells. From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day: The American Armed Forces in World War II. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1995.

Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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

Kerr, E. Bartlett. Surrender and Survival: The Experience of American POWs in the Pacific, 1941–1945. New York: W. Morrow, 1985.

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

Mauldin, Bill. Up Front. New York: H. Holt, 1945.

Melosi, Martin V. The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy over the Surprise Attack, 1941–1946. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1977.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

Motley, Mary P. The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975.

Perret, Geoffrey. There’s a War to Be Won: The United States Army in World War II. New York: Random House, 1991.

Perret, Geoffrey. Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II. New York: Random House, 1993.

Terkel, Studs. “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

U.S. Army in World War II. 90 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947–1968, http://www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/collect/usaww2.html.

Willoughby, Malcolm F. The U.S. Coast Guard in World War II. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1957.

Persecution/Ethnic Cleansing/Holocaust

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Viking, 1963.

Bosworth, R. J. B. Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: History Writing and the Second World War, 1945–1990. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Cohn, Norman. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.

Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. New York: Bantam, 1993.

Gilbert, Martin. Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews in Nazi Europe. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979.

Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe during the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986.

Guttenplan, D. D. The Holocaust on Trial. New York: Norton, 2001.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961.

Hochhuth, Rolf. The Deputy. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Grove, 1964.

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution. New Haven, CT: Yale, 2008.

Laqueur, Walter. The Terrible Secret: Suppression of the Truth about Hitler’s “Final Solution.” Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Larrabee, Eric. Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War. New York: Harper and Row, 1987.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity. Translated by Stuart Woolf. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Levin, Nora. The Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jewry, 1933–1945. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1968.

Lipstadt, Deborah E. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. New York: Free Press, 1993.

Marcuse, Harold. Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933–2001. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Marrus, Michael R., and Robert O. Paxton. Vichy France and the Jews. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

Mayer, Arno J. Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The “Final Solution” in History. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Morse, Arthur D. While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy. New York: Random House, 1968.

Mosse, George L. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. New York: H. Fertig, 1978.

Reitlinger, Gerald. The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939–1945. South Brunswick, NJ: T. Yoseloff, 1968.

Roseman, Mark. The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002.

Shapiro, Robert M. Why Didn’t the Press Shout? American and International Journalism during the Holocaust. Hoboken, NJ: Yeshiva University Press, 2003.

Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Zawodny, J. K. Death in the Forest: The Story of the Katyn Forest Massacre. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1962.

Zimmerman, Joshua D. Contested Memories: Poles and Jews during the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Resistance/Underground Movements

Asprey, Robert B. War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History. 2 vols. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.

Hoffmann, Peter. The History of the German Resistance, 1933–1945. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.

Kamienski, Jan. Hidden in the Enemy’s Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within. Toronto: Dundurn, 2008.

Littlejohn, David. The Patriotic Traitors: The History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940–45. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

Schoenbrun, David. Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance. New York: Dutton, 1980.

Intelligence

Accocer, Pierce, and Pierce Quet. A Man Called Lucy, 1939–1945. New York: Coward-McCann, 1967.

Aldrich, Richard J. Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America, and the Politics of Secret Service. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Bath, Alan Harris. Tracking the Axis Enemy: The Triumph of Anglo-American Naval Intelligence. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998.

Beesly, Patrick. Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939–1945. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.

Bennett, Ralph Frances. Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944–45. New York: Scribner, 1980.

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

Brown, Anthony Cave. “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, Spymaster to Winston Churchill. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Budiansky, Stephen. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II. New York: Free Press, 2000.

Calvocoressi, Peter. Top Secret Ultra. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

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

Casey, William J. The Secret War against Hitler. Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1988.

Chalou, George C. The Secrets War: The Office of Strategic Services in World War II. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992.

Cruickshank, Charles Greig. Deception in World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Drea, Edward J. MacArthur’s ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

Farago, Ladislas. The Broken Seal: The Story of Operation Magic and the Pearl Harbor Disaster. New York: Random House, 1967.

Farago, Ladislas. The Game of Foxes: The Untold Story of German Espionage in the United States and Great Britain during World War II. New York: D. McKay, 1972.

Garlinski, Józef. The Enigma War. New York: Scribner, 1980.

Hawell, Jock. D-Day: Intelligence and Deception. New York: Times Books, 1980.

Hesketh, Roger. FORTITUDE: The D-Day Deception Campaign. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2000.

Hinsley, F. H., E. E. Thomas, C. F. G. Ranson, R. D. Knight, C. A. G. Simkins, and Michael Howard. British Intelligence in the Second World War. 5 vols. New York: Cambridge, 1979–1988.

Holmes, W. J. Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific during World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1979.

Hyde, H. Montgomery. Room 3603: The Story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.

Ind, Allison. Allied Intelligence Bureau: Our Secret Weapon in the War against Japan. New York: McKay, 1958.

Jones, R. V. The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939–1945. 1st American ed. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1978.

Kahn, David. Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. New York: Macmillan, 1978.

Kahn, David. Seizing the ENIGMA: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939–1943. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Kozaczuk, Wladyslaw. ENIGMA: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984.

Langer, Walter C. The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report. New York: Basic Books, 1972.

Layton, Edwin T., Roger Pineau, and John Costello. “And I Was There”: Pearl Harbor and Midway—Breaking the Secrets. New York: W. Morrow, 1985.

Lee, Bruce. Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II. New York: Crown, 1995.

Lewin, Ronald. The American MAGIC: Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982.

Lewin, Ronald. ULTRA Goes to War: The First Account of World War II’s Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978.

Masterman, John C. The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972.

May, Ernest R. Knowing One’s Enemies: Intelligence Assessment before the Two World Wars. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

McLachlan, Donald. Room 39: A Study in Naval Intelligence. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

Paine, Lauran. German Military Intelligence in World War II: The Abwehr. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.

Paul, Doris A. The Navajo Code Talkers. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1973.

Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage. New York: Random House, 2001.

Prados, John. Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. New York: Random House, 1995.

Prange, Gordon W., Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon. Target Tokyo: The Story of the Sorge Spy Ring. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.

Pujol, Juan, and Nigel West. Operation GARBO: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II. New York: Random House, 1985.

Rout, Leslie B., and John F. Bratzel. The Shadow War: German Espionage and United States Counterespionage in Latin America during World War II. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1986.

Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. ENIGMA: The Battle for the Code. New York: Wiley, 2000.

Smith, Bradley F. Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.

Smith, Bradley F. The ULTRA-MAGIC Deals and the Most Secret Special Relationship, 1940–1946. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1993.

Smith, Michael. The Emperor’s Codes: The Breaking of Japan’s Secret Ciphers. New York: Arcade, 2001.

Wark, Wesley K. The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933–1939. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Welchman, Gordon. The Hut Six Story: Breaking the ENIGMA Codes. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Whymant, Robert. Stalin’s Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.

Winks, Robert W. Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939–1961. New York: Morrow, 1987.

Winterbotham, F. W. The ULTRA Secret. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Wires, Richard. The Cicero Spy Affair: German Access to British Secrets in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Airborne/Commandos/Special Operations

Blair, Clay. Ridgway’s Paratroopers: The American Airborne in World War II. Garden City, NY: Dial, 1985.

Cruickshank, Charles G. S.O.E. in the Far East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

DeFelice, Jim. Rangers at Dieppe: The First Combat Action of U.S. Army Rangers in World War II. New York: Berkley Caliber, 2008.

Foot, M. R. D. S.O.E. in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944. London: HMSO, 1966.

Ladd, James D. Commandos and Rangers of World War II. New York: St. Martin’s, 1978.

Peers, William R., and Dean Brelis. Behind the Burma Road: The Story of America’s Most Successful Guerrilla Force. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

Robertson, Terence. Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

Smith, Bradley F. The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A. New York: Basic Books, 1983.

Stafford, David. Britain and European Resistance, 1940–1945: A Survey of the Special Operations Executive, with Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.

Stafford, David. Camp X: OSS, “Intrepid,” and the Allies’ North American Training Camp for Secret Agents, 1941–1945. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987.

Stafford, David. Churchill and Secret Service. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1998.

Stafford, David. Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War against Hitler. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2001.

Villa, Brian Loring. Unauthorized Action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Yu, Maochun. OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.

Diplomacy/Politics/Economics

Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam; The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965.

Armstrong, Anne. Unconditional Surrender: The Impact of the Casablanca Policy upon World War II. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1961.

Barnes, Harry Elmer, ed. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Its Aftermath. Caldwell, ID: Caxton, 1953.

Beitzell, Robert. The Uneasy Alliance: America, Britain, and Russia, 1941–1943. New York: Knopf, 1972.

Berthon, Simon. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2001.

Beschloss, Michael R. The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

Carlton, David. Churchill and the Soviet Union. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

Caputi, Robert J. Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2000.

Charmley, John. Churchill’s Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1940–1957. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1995.

Clemens, Diane Shaver. Yalta. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Collingham, E. M. The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. New York: Penguin, 2012.

Corvaja, Santi. Hitler and Mussolini: The Secret Meetings. New York: Enigma Books, 2001.

Costello, John. Ten Days to Destiny: The Secret Story of the Hess Peace Initiative and British Efforts to Strike a Deal with Hitler. New York: W. Morrow, 1991.

Cumings, Bruce. Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship, 1943–1953. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983.

Dawson, Raymond H. The Decision to Aid Russia, 1941: Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959.

Deakin, F. W. The Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler, and the Fall of Italian Fascism. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.

Edmonds, Robin. The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Peace and War. New York: Norton, 1991.

Eubank, Keith. Munich. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.

Eubank, Keith. The Summit Conferences, 1919–1960. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.

Feis, Herbert. Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957.

Gardner, Lloyd C. Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition Europe, from Munich to Yalta. Chicago: I. R. Dee, 1993.

Grigg, John. 1943: The Victory That Never Was. New York: Hill and Wang, 1980.

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

Heinrichs, Waldo H. Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Henderson, Neville. Failure of a Mission: Berlin, 1937–1939. New York: Putnam, 1940.

Herring, George C. Aid to Russia, 1941–1946: Strategy, Diplomacy, the Origins of the Cold War. New York: Columbia, 1973.

Hoopes, Townsend, and Douglas Brinkley. F.D.R. and the Creation of the U.N. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Irving, David John Caldwell. The War between the Generals. New York: St. Martin’s, 1981.

James, D. Clayton, and Anne Sharp Wells. A Time for Giants: Politics of the American High Command in World War II. New York: Franklin Watts, 1987.

Kecskemeti, Paul. Strategic Surrender: The Politics of Victory and Defeat. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1958.

Kennedy, John F. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, 1940.

Kilzer, Louis C. Churchill’s Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Kimball, Warren F., ed. Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Kimball, Warren F. Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War. New York: W. Morrow, 1997.

Kimball, Warren F. The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Kimball, Warren F. The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 1939–1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969.

Krug, Hans-Joachim. Reluctant Allies: German-Japanese Naval Relations in World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Langer, William L. Our Vichy Gamble. New York: Knopf, 1947.

Langer, William L., and S. Everett Gleason. The Challenge to Isolation, 1937–1940. World Crisis and American Foreign Policy. New York: Harper, 1952.

Langer, William L., and S. Everett Gleason. The Undeclared War, 1940–1941. World Crisis and American Foreign Policy. New York: Harper, 1953.

Lash, Joseph P. Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West. New York: Norton, 1976.

Lattimore, Owen, and Isono Fujiko. China Memoirs: Chiang Kai-shek and the War against Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990.

Leitz, Christian. Sympathy for the Devil: Neutral Europe and Nazi Germany in World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Lensen, George A. The Strange Neutrality: Soviet-Japanese Relations during the Second World War, 1941–1945. Tallahassee: Diplomatic Press, 1972.

Liang, Jingchun. General Stilwell in China, 1942–1944: The Full Story. Jamaica, NY: St. John’s University Press, 1972.

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

Maddox, Robert F. The War within World War II: The United States and International Cartels. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001.

Martin, David. The Web of Disinformation: Churchill’s Yugoslav Blunder. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

Meacham, Jon. Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. New York: Random House, 2003.

Medlicott, W. N. The Economic Blockade. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1952–1959.

Mierzejewski, Alfred C. The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Milward, Alan S. War, Economy, and Society, 1939–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.

Miner, Steven M. Between Churchill and Stalin: The Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Origins of the Grand Alliance. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Morley, James W., ed. Deterrent Diplomacy: Japan, Germany, and the USSR, 1935–1940; Selected Translations from Taiheiyo Senso e no michi, kaisen gaiko shi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

Murphy, Robert D. Diplomat among Warriors. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.

Nadeau, Remi A. Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt Divide Europe. New York: Praeger, 1990.

O’Connor, Raymond G. Diplomacy for Victory: FDR and Unconditional Surrender. New York: Norton, 1971.

Parker, R. A. C. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. New York: St. Martin’s, 1993.

Perlmutter, Amos. FDR and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943–1945. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993.

Prazmowska, Anita. Britain, Poland, and the Eastern Front, 1939. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Raack, R. C. Stalin’s Drive to the West, 1938–1945: The Origins of the Cold War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995.

Read, Anthony, and David Fisher. The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939–1941. New York: Norton, 1988.

Reynolds, David. The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937–41: A Study in Competitive Co-operation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Reynolds, David, Warren F. Kimball, and A. O. Chubar’ian, eds. Allies at War: The Soviet, American, and British Experience, 1939–1945. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994.

Rock, William R. Appeasement on Trial: British Foreign Policy and Its Critics, 1938–1939. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1966.

Rock, William R. British Appeasement in the 1930s. New York: Norton, 1977.

Rock, William R. Chamberlain and Roosevelt: British Foreign Policy and the United States, 1937–1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.

Rowse, A. L. Appeasement: A Study in Political Decline, 1933–1939. New York: Norton, 1961.

Sainsbury, Keith. Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press, 1994.

Sainsbury, Keith. The Turning Point: Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, and Chiang-Kai-Shek, 1943: The Moscow, Cairo, and Teheran Conferences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Schlesinger, Stephen C. Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations; A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies, and Their Quest for a Peaceful World. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2003.

Sherwin, Martin J. A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance. New York: Knopf, 1975.

Sigal, Leon V. Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Smith, Arthur L., Jr. Churchill’s German Army: Wartime Strategy and Cold War Politics, 1943–1947. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977.

Snell, John L. Illusion and Necessity: The Diplomacy of Global War, 1939–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.

Snell, John L. The Meaning of Yalta: Big Three Diplomacy and the New Balance of Power. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1956.

Stafford, David. Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 2000.

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.

Stoler, Mark A. The Politics of the Second Front: American Military Planning and Diplomacy in Coalition Warfare, 1941–1943. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1977.

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

Thorne, Christopher G. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Tsou, Tang. America’s Failure in China, 1941–50. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Tuchman, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Wainstock, Dennis. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

Walker, J. Samuel. Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

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.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany: Diplomatic Revolution in Europe, 1933–1936. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany: Starting World War II, 1937–1939. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Wylie, Neville. European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

End of War and the Aftermath

Calvocoressi, Peter. Fall Out: World War II and the Shaping of Postwar Europe. New York: Longman, 1997.

Dallas, Gregor. 1945: The War That Never Ended. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

Davidson, Eugene. The Trial of the Germans: An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

Feis, Herbert. The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Gilbert, Martin. The Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945—Victory in Europe. New York: H. Holt, 1995.

Lowe, Keith. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. New York: St. Martin’s, 2012.

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

Minear, Richard H. Victor’s Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Moskin, J. Robert. Mr. Truman’s War: The Final Victories of World War II and the Birth of the Postwar World. New York: Random House, 1996.

Overy, R. J. Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945. New York: Viking, 2001.

Piccigallo, Philip R. The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945–1951. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, and Arlette El Kaïm. On Genocide: A Summary of the Evidence and the Judgments of the International War Crimes Tribunal. Boston: Beacon, 1968.

Sharp, Tony. The Wartime Alliance and the Zonal Division of Germany. Oxford, UK: Clarendon, 1975.

Theoharis, Athan G. The Yalta Myths: An Issue in U.S. Politics, 1945–1955. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1970.

Thomas, Hugh. Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945–46. New York: Atheneum, 1987.

Weintraub, Stanley. The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945. New York: Truman Talley Books, 1995.

Weapons/Technology/Equipment

Brown, Louis. A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics, 1999.

Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

Gannon, Robert. Hellions of the Deep: The Development of American Torpedoes in World War II. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Groueff, Stéphane. Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

Groves, Leslie R. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Harper, 1962.

Harris, Sheldon H. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932–1945, and the American Cover-Up. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Hartcup, Guy. The Effect of Science on the Second World War. New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.

Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945–1950. New York: Knopf, 1980.

Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: The Enigma. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.

Irving, David John Caldwell. The German Atomic Bomb: The History of Nuclear Research in Nazi Germany. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

Macrae, Stuart. Winston Churchill’s Toyshop. New York: Walker, 1972.

Mollo, Andrew, Malcolm McGregor, and Pierre Turner. The Armed Forces in World War II: Uniforms, Insignia, and Organization. New York: Crown, 1981.

Neufeld, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Ohl, John Kennedy. Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in WWII. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994.

Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Zimmerman, David. Top Secret Exchange: The Tizard Mission and the Scientific War. Buffalo, NY: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

Memoirs/Biographies

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

Alldritt, Keith. The Greatest of Friends: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, 1941–1945. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.

Ambrose, Stephen E. The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.

Barnett, Correlli. Hitler’s Generals. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.

Beard, Charles A. President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: A Study in Appearances and Realities. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948.

Berlin, Isaiah. Mr. Churchill in 1940. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964.

Blumenson, Martin, ed. The Patton Papers. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972–1974.

Bosworth, R. J. B. Mussolini. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Boyd, Carl. Hitler’s Japanese Confidant: General Oshima Hiroshi and MAGIC Intelligence, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Brooke, Alan. War Diaries, 1939–1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Buell, Thomas B. Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Admiral Ernest J. King. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Buell, Thomas B. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: Harper and Row, 1962.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Churchill, Randolph S., and Martin Gilbert. Winston S. Churchill. 8 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966–2015.

de Gaulle, Charles. War Memoirs. 5 vols. Translated by R. Howard. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955–1960.

Döenitz, Karl. Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1959.

Donovan, Robert J. PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961.

Eisenhower, David. Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945. New York: Random House, 1986.

Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Goebbels, Joseph. The Goebbels Diaries, 1942–1943. Edited by Louis Paul Lochner. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.

Guderian, Heinz. Achtung-Panzer! The Development of Armoured Forces, Their Tactics and Operational Potential. Translated by Christopher Duffy. London: Arms and Armour, 1992.

Guderian, Heinz. Panzer Leader. New York: Dutton, 1952.

Hamilton, Nigel. Monty. 3 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981–1986.

Hamilton, Nigel. Monty: The Battles of Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery. New York: Random House, 1994.

Higgins, Trumbull. Winston Churchill and the Second Front, 1940–1943. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.

Hitler, Adolf. Hitler Directs His War: The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences. Edited by Felix Gilbert. New York: Octagon Books, 1950.

Hubbard, Preston John. Apocalypse Undone: My Survival of Japanese Imprisonment during World War II. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1990.

James, D. Clayton. The Years of MacArthur. 3 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970–1985.

Keegan, John. Churchill’s Generals. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.

Kennan, George F. Memoirs. 2 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967–1972.

Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. 2 vols. New York: Norton, 1999–2000.

Kilzer, Louis C. Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich. Novato, CA: Presidio, 2000.

Kimmel, Husband E. Admiral Kimmel’s Story. Chicago: H. Regnery, 1955.

Kirkpatrick, Ivone. Mussolini: A Study in Power. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1964.

Laqueur, Walter. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations. New York: Scribner, 1990.

Lawson, Ted W. Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Edited by Robert Considine. New York: Random House, 1943.

Liddell Hart, Basil H. The German Generals Talk. New York: W. Morrow, 1948.

MacArthur, Douglas. Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Macksey, Kenneth. Guderian: Creator of the Blitzkrieg. New York: Stein and Day, 1976.

Manstein, Erich von. Lost Victories. Edited by Anthony G. Powell. Chicago: H. Regnery, 1958.

Marshall, S. L. A. Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War. Washington, DC: Infantry Journal, 1947.

Maser, Werner. Hitler: Legend, Myth, and Reality. Translated by Peter and Betty Ross. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

Mellenthin, F. W. von. Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War. Translated by H. Betzler. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.

Mitsuru, Yoshida. Requiem for Battleship Yamato. Translated by Richard H. Minear. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985.

Montagu, Ewen. The Man Who Never Was. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954.

Moore, Bob, and Kent Fedorowich, eds. Prisoners of War and Their Captors in World War II. Washington, DC: Berg, 1996.

Müllenheim-Rechberg, Burkard von. Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor’s Story. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980.

Mussolini, Benito. Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions. New York: H. Fertig, 1968.

Patton, George S., Paul D. Harkins, and Beatrice Banning Ayer Patton. War as I Knew It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.

Petillo, Carol M. Douglas MacArthur: The Philippine Years. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.

Pogue, Forrest C. George C. Marshall. 4 vols. New York: Viking, 1963–1987.

Pogue, Forrest C. Pogue’s War: Diaries of a WWII Combat Historian. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Potter, E. B. Nimitz. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976.

Roberts, Andrew. Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper, 2009.

Schaller, Michael. Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Scislowski, Stanley. Not All of Us Were Brave. Toronto: Dundurn, 1997.

Scott, Robert Lee, Jr. God Is My Co-Pilot. New York: Scribner, 1943.

Shirer, William L. Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934–1941. New York: Knopf, 1941.

Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. New York: Presidio, 2007.

Smith, Dennis Mack. Mussolini. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf, 1982.

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Stimson, Henry L., and McGeorge Bundy. On Active Service in Peace and War. New York: Harper, 1948.

Taylor, Telford. The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Thorpe, Elliott R. East Wind, Rain: The Intimate Account of an Intelligence Officer in the Pacific, 1939–49. Boston: Gambit, 1969.

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

Trevor-Roper, H. R. The Last Days of Hitler. New York: Macmillan, 1947.

Waite, Robert G. L. The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Wolfert, Ira. American Guerrilla in the Philippines. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.

Ziegler, Philip. Mountbatten. New York: Knopf, 1985.

COMPILED BY MATTHEW J. WAYMAN