Bibliography of World War II

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This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

Overview

• Addison, Paul and Angus Calder (eds.) Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939-1945. London: Pimlico, 1997.
• Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
• Beevor, Antony. The Second World War. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2012.
• Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948-1952 (6 vols)
• Deighton, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. - covers from World War I to Pearl Harbor
• Ellis, John. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: Viking, 1990.
• Hastings, Max. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. London: Harper Collins, 2001.
• Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2004.
• Purnell's History of the Second World War. Paulton, Eng.: Purnell & Sons. - magazine series
• Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961.

Battles and campaigns

European theatre

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

Invasions of France and the Low Countries

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

Battle of Britain

• Addison, Paul and Jeremy Craig (eds.) Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May to September 1940. London: Bodley Head, 2010.

Balkan Campaign

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

East African Campaign

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

North African Campaign

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

Battle of Stalingrad

• Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. London: Viking, 1998.
• Hayward, Joel. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943. Lawrence, Kan.: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1998.

Italian Campaign

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

Operation Bodyguard

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

Liberation of Europe

• Ambrose, Stephen. Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
• —. D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
• —. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
• Atkinson, Rick. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2013.
• Beevor, Antony. Ardennes 1944: Battle of the Bulge. London: Viking, 2015.
• —. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. London: Penguin, 2009.
• Harding, Stephen. The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013. - Battle for Castle Itter
• Kershaw, Alex. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2004.
• Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974. - Operation Market Garden
• —. The Longest Day. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. - Normandy landings

Operation Bagration

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

Battle of Berlin

• Beevor, Antony. Berlin: The Downfall 1945. London: Viking, 2002.
• Ryan, Cornelius. The Last Battle. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966.

Pacific theatre

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

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Beekman, Allan. Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press, 1992.
• Stinnett, Robert. Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. New York: Touchstone, 2001.

Guadalcanal Campaign

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

Operation Hailstone

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

Battle of Iwo Jima

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

Battle of Okinawa

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

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
• Pellegrino, Charles R. The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2010.
• Takayama, Hitoshi. Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today: Hiroshima as a Testimony of Peace for Mankind. 1973.
• Weller, George. Anthony Weller, ed. First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. New York: Crown, 2006.
• Yanagida, Kunio. A Blank in the Weather Map. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1975.

Strategic bombing

• Brickhill, Paul. The Dam Busters. London: Evans Brothers, 1951.
• Deighton, Len. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Jonathan Cape, 1977.
• Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore. Bomber Aircrew in World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat. Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2004.
• —. To Shatter the Sky: Bomber Airfield at War. Cambridge: P. Stephens, 1984.
• Irving, David. The Destruction of Dresden. Morley: Elmfield Press, 1974.
• Middlebrook, Martin. The Battle of Hamburg. London: Cassell, 2000.
• —. The Berlin Raids. London: Cassell, 2000.
• —. The Bomber Command War Diaries. London: Viking, 1985.
• —. The Nuremberg Raid. London: Penguin, 1986.
• O'Neill, Brian D. Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Biographies or autobiographies

• Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
• Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries, 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001.
• Altner, Helmut. Berlin: Dance of Death. Translated by Tony Le Tissier. Havertown, Penn.: Casemate, 2002. - memoir
• Ambrose, Stephen. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
• —. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys - The Men of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
• —. 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
• Barrett, Duncan and Nuala Calvi. GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love. London: Harper Collins, 2003.
• 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.
• Clark, Andrew. A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2003.
• 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
• Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
• 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.
• —. 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.
• 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: Peguin, 2008. - biography of Herman Perry
• 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
• Polansky, Paul. Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak. Self-published, 1998. - Romanis who lived in the Lety concentration camp
• 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.
• Spears, Sir Edward. Assignment to Catastrophe. London: Heinemann, 1954. - memoir of British ambassador to France
• 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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Adolf Hitler

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William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Pope Pius XII

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Harry S. Truman

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Holocaust

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Regional

• Bailey, Rosemary. Love and War in the Pyrenees: A Story of Courage, Fear and Hope, 1939-1944. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008
• De Jong, Loe. The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II. Amsterdam: Dutch Institute for War Documentation, 1969-1991. (14 vols) - official history
• Kippenberger, Howard and Monty C. Fairbrother (eds.) Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45. Wellington: War History Branch, 1949-1986. (48 vols) - official history
• Littlejohn, David. The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45. London: Heinemann, 1972.
• Long, Gavin (ed.). Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1952-1977. (22 vols) - official history
• Wiskemann, Elizabeth. The Rome-Berlin Axis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949.

China

• Brook, Timothy. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005.
• Smedley, Agnes. Battle Hymn of China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. - journalistic account of the Sino-Japanese War

France

• Amouroux, Henri. La Grande Histoire des Français sous l’Occupation. [The Grand History of the French Under Occupation]. Paris: R. Laffont, 1976-1993. (10 vols)
• King, David. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris. New York: Crown, 2011.

Germany

Main article: List of books about Nazi Germany

Japan

• Bradley, James. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.
• Forbes, Cameron. Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War. Sydney: Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005.
• 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

• Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, 1946. - Grini detention camp
• Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, 1995. - encyclopedia

Poland

• Davies, Norman. Rising '44. New York: Macmillan, 2003. - Warsaw Uprising
• Nałkowska, Zofia. Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999. - case studies of Nazi crimes against the Polish nation

Soviet Union

• Andreyev, Catherine. Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement, Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987.
• Gordin, I. (ed.) Nasha voina. [Our War]. Saint Petersburg: Izd-vo zhurnala "Zvezda", 2005.
• Landwehr, Richard. Fighting for Freedom: The Ukrainian Volunteer Division of the Waffen-SS. Silver Spring, Md.: Bibliophile Legion Books, 1985.
• Meltyukhov, Mikhail. Stalin's Missed Chance. - alleges that the Soviet Union was preparing to attack Germany when Operation Barbarossa began
• Suvorov, Viktor. M-Day. - alleges that the Soviet Union was preparing to attack Germany when Operation Barbarossa began

United Kingdom

• Buchanan, Pat. Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. New York: Crown, 2007.
• Cato. Guilty Men. London: V. Galancz, 1940. - anti-appeasement polemic
• Churchill, Sir Winston. While England Slept. London: George G. Harrap, 1938. - anti-appeasement polemic
• 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.

United States

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

Yugoslavia

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

Post-war

• Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
• Tolstoy, Nikolai. Victims of Yalta. London: Corgi Books, 1977. - post-war repatriation of Soviet citizens
• Sheehan, James J. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Mariner Books, 2009.
• 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

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