BOOKS HISTORY WWII

 

Adams, Michael C. C., The Best War Ever: America and World War II (The American Moment), Johns Hopkins University Press; second edition, 2015

 

Alexievich, Svetlana, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2020

 

Alexievich, Svetlana, Richard Pevear, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II, Random House, 2017

  

Allport, Alan, Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941, Knopf, 2020

 

Andrews, Lena S., Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II, Mariner Books, 2023 

 

Arendt, Hannah, Jerome Kohn, Between Past and Future (Penguin Classics), Penguin Classics; Annotated edition, 2006

 

Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Nabu Press; 2nd ed. Edition, 2011

 

Arnn, Dr. Larry, Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government, Thomas Nelson; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Atkinson, Rick, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy), Picador; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Baime, A. J., The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Bass, Gary J., Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, Knopf, 2023

 

Beevor, Antony, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943, Penguin Books, 1999

 

Beevor, Antony, The Second World War, Back Bay Books, 2013

 

Bouverie, Tim, Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World, Crown, 2025

 

Bouverie, Tim, Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War, Tim Duggan Books, 2019

 

Brady, Tim, Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins--and WWII Heroes, Citadel, 2021

 

Buruma, Ian, Year Zero: A History of 1945, Penguin Books; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Byfield, Judith, Carolyn Brown, Africa and World War II, Cambridge University Press, 2015

 

Caquet, P. E., The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia, Other Press, 2019

 

Cobb, Matthew, The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis, Simon & Schuster UK, 2013

 

Collingham, Liie, Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Cornwell, John, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking Adult, 1999

 

Crosby, Harry H., A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2021

 

Dickson, Paul, The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor, Atlantic Monthly Press; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Dimbleby, Jonathan, Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the War, VIKIN, 2024

 

DK World War II: The Definitive Visual History from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb (DK Definitive Visual Histories), DK 2011

 

DK, A Short History of World War II (DK Short Histories), DK, 2020

 

DK, Smithsonian Institution, World War II Map by Map (DK History Map by Map), DK; Illustrated edition, 2019

 

DK, The World War II Book (DK Big Ideas), DK, 2022

 

Dugan, James, Carroll Stewart, Ploesti: The Great Ground-Air Battle of 1 August 1943, Revised Edition (Brassey's Aviation Classics), POTOMAC BOOKS, 2002

 

Eichler, Jeremy, Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War, Vintage, 2024

 

Folsom, Burton W. Jr., Anita Folsom, FDR Goes to War, Threshold Editions, 2013

 

Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, Penguin Books, 2001

 

Frank, Richard B., Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

 

Gallicchio, Marc, Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II (Pivotal Moments in American History), Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Gellately, Robert, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Glantz, David M., Jonathan M. House, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Modern War Studies), University Press of Kansas, 2015

 

Gold, Hal, Yuma Totani, Japan's Infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program (Tuttle Classics), Tuttle Publishing, 2019

 

Gooch, John, Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943, Penguin, 2021

 

Gorham, Christopher C., The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win and Shape Modern America, Citadel, 2023

 

Graff, Garrett M., When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2025

 

Gregg, Victor, Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945, Bloomsbury Reader; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Hampton, Dan, Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II, William Morrow; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Haslam, Jonathan, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics, 184), Princeton University Press, 2021

 

Hastings, Max, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 (Vintage), Vintage, 2005

 

Hastings, Max, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Hastings, Max, Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II, Harper, 2020

 

Herman, Arthur, Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Illustrated edition, 2013

 

Holland, James, The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943 (The War in the West), Grove Press, 2018

 

Hornfischer, James D., The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945, Bantam; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Hotta, Eri, Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2014

 

James, Henry J., The Man Who Won World War II, Anodyne Press, 2022

 

Johnson, Ian Ona, Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War, Oxford University Press, 2021

 

Kean, Sam, The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, Hodder Paperbacks, 2020

 

Kershaw, Ian, Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Kershaw, Ian, Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe, Penguin Press, 2022

 

Kershaw, Ian, To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949 (The Penguin History of Europe), Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Kertzer, David I., The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Illustrated edition, 2015

 

Kertzer, David I., The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler, Random House, 2022

 

Kingston, A. M., James Lee, Elegant Espionage: Women Spies Who Graced the Shadows of WW2- and Conquered Them, Independently published, 2023

 

Koskodan, Kenneth K., No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II (General Military), Osprey Publishing; Reprint edition, 2011

 

Larson, Erik, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Crown, 2020

 

Link, Stefan J., Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (America in the World, 33), Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Manning, Molly Guptill, When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II, Mariner Books, 2015

 

Mansfield, Howard, I Will Tell No War Stories: What Our Fathers Left Unsaid about World War II, Lyons Press, 2024

 

McMeekin, Sean, Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Basic Books, 2022

 

Middlebrook, Martin, The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission: The American Raids on 17 August 1943, Pen and Sword Aviation, 2012

 

Miller, Donald L., Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany, Simon & Schuster, 2007

 

Milton, Giles, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Picador, 2018

 

Milward, Alan S. S., War, Economy and Society, 1939-1945 (Volume 5) (History of the World Economy in the Twentieth Century), University of California Press, 1980

 

Mitter, Rana, Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945, Mariner Books, 2014

 

Montagu, Ewen, The Man Who Never Was, The History Press, 2021

 

Moorhouse, Roger, DEVILS' ALLIANCE, THE, Vintage, 2016

 

Moorhouse, Roger, Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II, Basic Books; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Musemeche, Catherine, Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II, William Morrow, 2022

 

Neiberg, Michael S., When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, Harvard University Press, 2023

 

Nelson, Anne, Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler, Random House, 2009

 

O'Brien, Phillips Payson, How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II (Cambridge Military Histories). Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition, 2019

 

O'Brien, Phillips Payson, The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War, Dutton, 2024

 

Olson, Lynne, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Illustrated edition, 2011

 

Olson, Lynne, Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Overy, Richard, A New History of the Second World War, Allen Lane, London, 2021

 

Overy, Richard, Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945, Penguin, 2023

 

Overy, Richard, Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945, Viking Adult, 2001

 

Overy, Richard, Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941-1945, Penguin Books; Revised ed. Edition, 1998

 

Overy, Richard, Why the Allies Won, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 1997

 

Paradis, Michel, Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Paradis, Michel, The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower, Mariner Books, 2024

 

Parkin, Simon, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War, Sceptre, 2020

 

Price, David A., Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age, Knopf, 2021

 

Purnell, Sonia, A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2020

 

RANA, MITTER, China's War with Japan, 1937-1945 /anglaise, PENGUIN UK, 2014

 

Rees, Laurence, Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War, Penguin, 2021

 

Rees, Laurence, World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, The Nazis and the West, Vintage; Illustrated edition, 2010

 

Reynolds, Nicholas, Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence, Mariner Books, 2022

 

Scholl, Inge, Arthur R. Schultz, The White Rose: Munich, 1942–1943, Wesleyan University Press; 2d ed. Originally published as Students Against Tyranny. Trans. from the German Edition, 1983

 

Schultz, Duane, Into the Fire: Ploesti, the Most Fateful Mission of World War II, Westholme Publishing, 2008

 

Scott, James M., Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb, W. W. Norton & Company, 2022

 

Scott, James M., Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Sereny, Gitta, Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience, Vintage; 63829th edition, 1983

 

Smith, Jean Edward, The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light, Simon & Schuster, 2019

 

Snyder, Timothy, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition, 2012

 

Symonds, Craig L. Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, Oxford University Press, 2022

 

Taylor, A.J.P., The Origins of The Second World War, Simon & Schuster, 1996

 

Taylor, Frederick, 1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020

 

Taylor, Frederick, Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945, Harper Perennial; Reprint edition, 2005

 

Terkel, Studs, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II, The New Press; Reprint edition, 1997

 

Thomas, Evan, Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, Random House, 2023

 

Tibbets, Paul W., Return of the Enola Gay, Mid Coast, 1998

 

Toll, Ian W., Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (Pacific War Trilogy), W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated Edition, 2012

 

Toll, Ian W., The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Pacific War Trilogy), W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated Edition, 2016

 

Toll, Ian W., Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Vol. 3) (Pacific War Trilogy), W. W. Norton & Company; 2021

 

Tuchman, Barbara W. Stillwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Wallace, Chris, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World (Chris Wallace’s Countdown Series), (Chris Wallace’s Countdown Series), Avid Reader Press; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Weinberg, Gerhard L., World War II: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions), Oxford University Press, 2014

 

Wood, James B., Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War: Was Defeat Inevitable?, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007

 

Zaloga, Steven J., Steve Noon, Ploesti 1943: The great raid on Hitler's Romanian oil refineries (Air Campaign, 12), Osprey Publishing, 2019

 


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