World War II
The
Battle for History : Re-Fighting World War II
by John Keegan
With the same erudition, discernment, and crisp prose that made his
A
History of Warfare an international bestseller, Keegan surveys the
literature of World War II, identifying the works he finds most important
and illuminating while examining the sometimes savage controversies raised
by two generations of the war's historians.
Paperback / Published 1996
Blood, Tears, and Folly : An Objective Look at World War II
by Len Deighton
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Blood and Water : Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb
Dan Kurzman
Listed under Scandinavia WWII
Burma : The Longest War 1941-1945
by Louis Allen
Listed under Burma WWII
The
Cassell Atlas of the Second World War
by Peter Young (Editor), Richard Natk (Illustrator)
Detailed maps including troop movements from every major battle.
Hardcover - 232 pages (March 2000)
Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304352861
Codebreakers : The Inside Story of Bletchley Park
F. H. Hinsley (Editor), Alan Stripp (Editor)
Listed under Alan Turing
Design for Victory : World War II Posters on the American Home Front
by H. Rubenstein, W. Bird
Listed under Art in Wartime
Dirty
Little Secrets of World War II : Military Information No One Told You About
the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History
James F. Dunnigan, et al
More than three hundred historical entries capture aspects of World
War II that no one knows about, exposing the dark, misunderstood, and tragicomic
aspects of the war and showing how today's high-tech weapons had their
beginnings fifty years ago.
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.14 x 9.23 x 6.14
Quill; ISBN: 0688122884; Reprint edition (March 1996)
Five Days in London, May 1940
by John Lukacs
Comprehensively traces the events of that long weekend, which culminated
in Churchill's decision on May 28th to fight on, no matter what happened
to France.
Listed under Blitzkrieg
Fortress
Europe : European Fortifications of World War II
by J. E. Kaufmann, Robert M. Jurga (Translator)
Hardcover - 400 pages (June 1999)
Da Capo Press; ISBN: 1580970001
The
Ghost Front: The Ardennes Before the Battle of the Bulge
by Charles Whiting
(Hardcover - April 2002)
'The
Good War' : An Oral History of World War Two
Studs Terkel
Pulitzer Prize-winning book with a new preface by the author. "As in
Hard Times and Working, this master interviewer again creates a turbulent
epic of human experience by quoting the words of those who lived it. .
. . A vivid resurrection of a lost time."--Newsday.
Paperback / Published 1997
The
Greatest War, Volume III: The Battle of the Bulge to Hiroshima
by Gerald Astor
Paperback - November 2001
Is
Paris Burning?
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
A reconstructions of events pertaining to the liberation of Paris,
August 1944 by the author of City of Joy.
Hardcover - 376 pages (May 2000)
Castle; ISBN: 0785812466
The Kennedys at War, 1937-1945
by Edward J., Jr. Renehan
Listed under JFK
Kilroy
Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II
by Charles Osgood (Introduction)
Paperback: 288 pages
Hyperion Press; ISBN: 0786885742; (April 2002)
The Longest Day : June 6, 1944
Cornelius Ryan
Listed under Normandy
Lost Victories; War Memoirs of Hitler's Most Brilliant General
Erich Von Manstein
Listed under German Generals
19
Weeks : America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940
by Norman Moss
Book Description: The whirl of events during the spring and
summer of 1940 is boggling to contemplate: the astonishing collapse of
France, the evacuation of Dunkirk, secret moves for peace, the Battle of
Britain, air raids on London, the battle over isolationism in America.
While Britain steeled itself for a German invasion, America argued over
how to respond to the gathering storm in Europe. In December 1941, Germany
and Japan would declare war on the United States, forcing the nation to
join the Allied cause. But it was the extraordinary decisions made between
May and September of 1940 that signaled America's willingness to emerge
from its entrenched isolationism. Those nineteen weeks were, Moss shows,
the crucible in which America's interventionist role in the world was forged
and which ensured the decline and eventual disappearance of the British
Empire. Roosevelt's battle for the hearts and minds of Americans was to
have far-reaching consequences that still color the way we live today.
Nineteen Weeks recounts the epic tale of these two nations, each confronting
the great crush of history. Moss examines this period from the viewpoints
of the leaders and policymakers, but also through the intimate experiences
of ordinary citizens. A moving, prescient examination of two countries
struggling with war, Nineteen Weeks opens important questions about the
decline of the British Empire and the rise of America's dominant role in
global politics.
Hardcover from Houghton Mifflin Co
Book Published: May, 2003
Quartered Safe Out Here : A Recollection of the War in Burma
by George MacDonald Fraser
Highly Recommended
Listed under Burma Campaigns
The
Second World War
John Keegan
Paperback - 608 pages Reprint edition (September 1990)
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 014011341X
Singapore, 1942: Britain's Greatest Defeat
by Alan Warren
Listed under History of Singapore
Strange Victory : Hitler's Conquest of France
by Ernest R. May
Listed under Blitzkrieg
Threshold
of War : Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry into World War II
Waldo H. Heinrichs
Paperback / Published 1990
War
Diaries 1939-1945
by Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke
Hardcover: 650 pages
University of California Press; ISBN: 0520233018; (August
6, 2001) |
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Wartime
: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell examines the immediate impact of World War II on soldiers
and civilians. He depicts the psychological and emotional atmosphere of
World War II by, most importantly, emphasizing the damage the war did to
intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity,
and wit.
Paperback / Published 1990
A
War to Be Won : Fighting the Second World War, 1937-1945
by Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett
"Scholarship and insight place this book in the front rank of military
history written in the 20th century's final decade." Publisher's Weekly,
May 8, 2000
Hardcover - 656 pages (May 6, 2000)
Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 067400163X
What
They Didn't Teach You About World War II
by Mike Wright
Hardcover - 352 pages (April 1998)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891416498
A
World at Arms : A Global History of World War II
Gerhard L. Weinberg
An acclaimed, exhaustively researched, one-volume history covers every
theater of battle and emphasizes the global nature of the war, showing
how events in one corner of the world affected events elsewhere.
Paperback (November 1995)
Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0521558794
Atlas of the Second World War : Europe and the Mediterranean
by Thomas E. Griess (Editor)
Paperback (January 1986)
Avery Pub Group; ISBN: 0895293056
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The Historical Atlas of World War II
by John Pimlott, Alan Bullock (Photographer)
Hardcover - 224 pages (June 1995)
Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805039295
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