Books old and new we're reading, reviewing, researching, or just remembering, and recommending to our friends and visitors.
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Pallud, Jean Paul
The Desert War: Then and Now. London: After the Battle, 2013.
A familiar format and a familiar campaign, but—as always with "Then and Now" volumes—an impressive conjunction of text, photos, and captions. With so many photos, it's easy to call this a pictorial history. However, removing all the images still leaves a steady, well-written history of the war in the desert. |
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Schick, Albert
Combat History of the 10. Panzer-Division, 1939-1943. Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2013.
Originally published in German in 1993, this very readable English translation is a solid battle history of an unusual German panzer division. Especially interesting material on the unit's destruction in Tunisia, including brief notes about how Claus von Stauffenberg—the division's operations officer—was wounded. |
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Letourneau, Roger and Dennis Letourneau
Operation Ke: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
By some measures, the evacuation was the most effective aspect of Japanese operations on Guadalcanal. The authors thoroughly investigate and analyze how much of that successful withdrawal was due to American failures and how much was due to superior Japanese planning and tactics. |
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Kochanski, Halik
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
A wide-ranging and balanced survey. If any one book can encapsulate the totality of a nation's experience in WWII, this one seems to accomplish that feat for Poland. |
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Prados, John
Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun. New York: New American Library, 2012.
John Prados has painted an impressive, big-picture view of the campaign in the Solomons, claiming these battles represented the true turning point of the war in the Pacific, a claim he backs up with a thoroughly integrated history of the plans and operations of both sides, with a special emphasis on the role of all forms of intelligence in shaping events and outcomes. |
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Ludewig, Joachim
Ruckzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
Ludewig's work represents the best explanation of how broken German forces managed to conduct their withdrawal across France in circumstances that might have led to a quick end to the war, but resulted instead in a strong defensive line shielding the Reich. Allied generals sustain no small measure of criticism. |
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Caldwell, Donald
Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich: A War Diary, 1942-45. Barnsley, UK: Frontline, 2012.
Having already made his name with notable Luftwaffe histories, the author presents a massive compilation of data about German day-fighter operations in defense of the Reich. In much the same manner that authors such as Freeman, Middlebrook, Chorley, and Boiten produced chronological summaries and statistical abstracts for other aspects of the strategic air war over Germany, this volume contains an amazingly extensive and accurate day-by-day, unit-by-unit digest of sorties, claims, losses, etc. |
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Nevenkin, Kamen
Take Budapest: The Struggle for Hungary, Autumn 1944. Stroud, UK: Spellmount / The History Press, 2012.
A serious, intense, thoroughly documented operational history of the opening rounds of the battle around Budapest. A careful reconstruction of plans and movements, losses and successes. Details of OBs, strengths, commanders, etc. |
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Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello with Russell Guest
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume one: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942. London: Grub Street, 2012.
The original Fighters over the Desert by Chris Shores appeared less than thirty years after the events it described. More than forty years after publication of that ground-breaking volume, the author and his collaborators have produced a more accurate and more detailed version of the same events. All those extra years of research, study, reflection, and experience pay off handsomely with one of the best new books of the year. |
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Eichholtz, Dietrich
War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire. Washington, DC: Potomac Books Inc, 2012.
A concise and informative assessment of German strategic objectives as viewed through the lens of crucial petroleum requirements. |
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Goldman, Stuart D.
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012.
Goldman's relatively brief book explains the background of Russian and Japanese expansion and collision in the Far East, provides a thorough account of their armed clashes from 1937 through 1939, and offers a somewhat speculative but completely plausible interpretation of the consequences. These events also show how local decisions made by low-ranking officers opened the door to worldwide conflagration. |
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Hardesty, Von and and Ilya Grinberg
Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2012.
Revised edition? Sequel? Entirely new work? It's difficult to determine exactly how to categorize this book, but it's safe to say the authors have produced a superior work about the Soviet Air Force. It probably stands as the finest book ever written in English about the VVS in WWII. |
Some "Recommended Reading" selections from over the years
Adams, John A.
The Battle for Western Europe, Fall 1944: An Operational Assessment
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2010
Alden, John D. and Craig R. McDonald
United States and Allied Submarine Successes in the Pacific and Far East during World War II
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2009
Amersfoort, Herman and Piet Kamphuis (editors)
May 1940: The Battle for the Netherlands
Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishing, 2010
Anonymous
Wojna Obronna Polski 1939
Warsaw: Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny, 1995
Anonymous translated by Steven Bullard
Japanese Army Operations in the South Pacific Area: New Britain and Papua Campaigns, 1942-43
Canberra, ACT: Australian War Memorial, 2007
Atkinson, Rick
Liberation Trilogy, volume 2
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007
Balkoski, Joseph
Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy
Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 2005
Balkoski, Joseph
From Beachhead to Brittany: The 29th Infantry Division at Brest, August - September 1944
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008
Balkoski, Joseph
From Brittany to the Reich: The 29th Infantry Division in Germany, September - November, 1944
Baltimore, MD: Old Orchard Press, 2010
Balkoski, Joseph
Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944
London: Greenhill Books, 2004
Balkoski, Joseph
Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing and Airborne Operations on D-Day, June 6, 1944
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2005
Balogh, Beni L.
The Second Vienna Award and the Hungarian-Romanian Relations, 1940-1944
New York: East European Monographs, 2011
Barratt, Stephen
Zhitomir-Berdichev: German Operations West of Kiev, 24 December 1943-31 January 1944, volume 1
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2012
Barratt, Stephen
Zhitomir-Berdichev: German Operations West of Kiev, 24 December 1943-31 January 1944, volume 2
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company - Forthcoming June 2013
Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R.
The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006
Bartsch, William H.
December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003
Bartsch, William H.
Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2010
Bayly, Christopher and Tim Harper
Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005
Beevor, Antony
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
New York: Viking, 2009
Behrens, C. B. A
History of the Second World War
Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War
London: HMSO and Longmans, Green, 1955
Bellamy, Chris
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
New York: Knopf, 2007
Bergstrom, Christer, Andrey Dikov and Vlad Antipov
Black Cross, Red Star: Air War over the Eastern Front, vol 3: Everything for Stalingrad
Hamilton, MT: Eagle Editions, Ltd, 2006
Bishop, Patrick
Battle of Britain: A Day-by-Day Chronicle, 10 July 1940 to 1 October 1940
London: Quercus Publishing, 2009
Blair jr, Clay
Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945
New York: Random House, 1998
Blair jr, Clay
Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942
New York: Random House, 1996
Boer, Peter C.
The Loss of Java: The Final Battles for the Possession of Java Fought by Allied Air, Naval and Land Forces in the Period of 18 February - 7 March 1942
Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2011
Boiten, Theo
Nachtjagd War Diaries: An Operational History of the German Night Fighter Force in the West, volume 1: September 1939 - March 1944
Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2008
Boiten, Theo and Roderick J. Mackenzie
Nachtjagd War Diaries: An Operational History of the German Night Fighter Force in the West, volume 2: April 1944 - May 1945
Walton on Thames, UK: Red Kite, 2008
Bonn, Keith E. (editor) et al
Slaughterhouse: The Encyclopedia of the Eastern Front
Camp Hill, PA: Military Book Club, 2003
Boog, Horst et al
Germany and the Second World War, vol 4
The Attack on the Soviet Union
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999
Boog, Horst, Gerhard Krebs, and Detlef Vogel
Germany and the Second World War, vol 7
The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006
Brongers, E.H.
The Battle for The Hague, 1940
Soesterberg: Aspekt, 2004
Brune, Peter
A Bastard of a Place: The Australians in Papua
Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2003
Burdick, Charles
Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968
Burgwyn, H. James
Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini's Conquest of Yugoslavia 1941-1943
New York: Enigma Books, 2005
Burrell, Robert S.
The Ghosts of Iwo Jima
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2006
Burton, John
Fortnight of Infamy: The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006
Caldwell, Donald
Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich: A War Diary, 1942-45
Barnsley, UK: Frontline / Pen and Sword, 2012
Callahan, Raymond
Churchill and His Generals
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007
Cornelius, Deborah S.
Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron
New York: Fordham University Press, 2011
D'Este, Carlo
Warlord: A Life of Winston Churchill at War, 1874-1945
New York: Harper, 2008
Davies, Norman
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
New York: Viking - Penguin, 2005
De Franceschi, Costantino et al
Italian Official History
Le Operazioni delle Unita Italiane al Fronte Russo, 1941-1943
Roma: Officio Storico, 1977
De Lattre de Tassigny, Jean
The History of the French First Army
London: Allen and Unwin, 1952
deZeng, Henry L. and Douglas G. Stankey
Dive-Bomber and Ground-Attack Units of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945, volume 1
Hinckley, UK: Classic Publications, 2009
deZeng, Henry L. and Douglas G. Stankey with Eddie J. Creek
Bomber Units of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945: A Reference Source, volume 1
Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing Limited, 2007
deZeng, Henry L. and Douglas G. Stankey with Eddie J. Creek
Bomber Units of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945: A Reference Source, volume 2
Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing Limited, 2008
Doorman, P. L. G.
Military Operations of the Dutch Army, 10th-17th May 1940
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2010
Douglas, W.A.B., Roger Sarty, and Michael Whitby et al
Official Operational History of the RCN, volume II, part 2
A Blue Water Navy
St Catharines, ONT: Vanwell Publishing Ltd, 2007
Douglas, W.A.B., Roger Sarty, and Michael Whitby et al
Official Operational History of the RCN, volume II, part 1
No Higher Purpose
St Catharines, ONT: Vanwell Publishing Ltd, 2003
Dunning, Chris
Courage Alone: The Italian Air Force, 1940-1943
Crowborough, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2009
Ehlers Jr, Robert S.
Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
Eichholtz, Dietrich
War for Oil: The Nazi Quest for an Oil Empire
Washington, DC: Potomac Books Inc, 2012
Ellis, John
World War II: A Statistical Survey: The Essential Facts and Figures for All the Combatants
New York: Facts on File, 1993
Engen, Robert
Canadians under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War
Kingston, Canada: McGill-Queens University, 2009
Fenyo, Mario D.
Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941-1944
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972
Foreman, John
Fighter Command War Diaries, volume five: July 1944 to May 1945
Walton on Thames, UK: Air Research Publications, 2004
Frieser, Karl-Heinz
The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005
Fritz, Stephen G.
Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011
Gabriele, Mariano
Italian Official History
Operazione C3: Malta
Rome: Ufficio Storico, 1990
Gamble, Bruce
Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington
Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 2001
Gamble, Bruce
Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul: Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II
St Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2006
Gamble, Bruce
Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942 - April 1943
Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2010
Gardiner, Robert (editor)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905
New York: Mayflower Books, 1979
Gardiner, Robert (editor)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1985
Gardiner, Robert (editor)
Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980
Getz, Marshall J.
Subhas Chandra Bose: A Biography
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2002
Gilmour, John
Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010
Glantz, David
After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2009
Glantz, David
Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005
Glantz, David
August Storm, volume 2
Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria, 1945
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
Glantz, David
August Storm, volume 1
The Soviet Strategic Offensive in Manchuria, 1945
London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
Glantz, David M.
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941, volume 1: The German Advance, the Encirclement Battle, and the First and Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2010
Glantz, David M.
Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941
Stroud, England: Tempus, 2001
Glantz, David M.
The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002
Glantz, David M.
Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006
Glantz, David M. and Jonathan M. House
The Battle of Kursk
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999
Glantz, David M. with Jonathan M. House
The Stalingrad Trilogy, volume 1: To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
Glantz, David M. with Jonathan M. House
The Stalingrad Trilogy, volume 2: Armageddon in Stalingrad, September-November 1942
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009
Goldman, Stuart D.
Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012
Grunden, Walter E.
Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005
Gustavsson, Hakan and Ludovico Slongo
Desert Prelude: Early Clashes, June - November 1940
Petersfield, Hamps: MMP Books, 2010
Gustavsson, Hakan and Ludovico Slongo
Desert Prelude: Operation Compass
Petersfield, Hamps: MMP Books, 2011
Haarr, Geirr H.
The Battle for Norway, April - June 1940
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010
Haarr, Geirr H.
The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009
Hamdi, Walid M.S.
Rashid Ali al-Gailani: The Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941: A Political and Military Study of the British Campaign in Iraq and the National Revolution of May 1941
London: Darf Publishers, 1987
Hara, Tameichi et al
Japanese Destroyer Captain
New York: Ballantine, 1961
Hardesty, Von and and Ilya Grinberg
Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2012
Hastings, Max
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
New York: Vintage Books, 2004
Hastings, Max
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
London: HarperPress, 2007
Hastings, Max
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
Hauner, Milan
India in Axis Strategy: Germany, Japan, and Indian Nationalists in the Second World War
Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1981
Hayashi, Saburo with Alvin D. Coox
Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War
Quantico, VA: Marine Corps Association, 1959
Heiferman, Ronald Ian
The Cairo Conference of 1943: Roosevelt, Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2011
Hesse d'Alzon, Claude
Guerre 1939-1945 [French Official History]
La Presence Militaire Francaise en Indochine (1940-1945)
Chateau de Vincennes: Service Historique de l'Armee, 1985
Hirszowicz, Lukasz
The Third Reich and the Arab East
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968
Hitchcock, William I.
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
New York: The Free Press, 2008
Holland, James
Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45
London: HarperPress, 2008
Hughes, David, David A. Ryan and Steve Rothwell
The British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, vol 10: The Indian Army, part three: The Indian Army in the East, 1944-45
West Chester, OH: Nafziger Collection, 2008
Jaffee, Walter
The Victory Ships from A to Z
Benicia, CA: The Glencannon Press, 2006
Jones, Michael K.
Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2007
Kempton, Chris
Loyalty & Honour: The Indian Army, September 1939 - August 1947, part I: Divisions
Milton Keynes, UK: Military Press, 2004
Kempton, Chris
Loyalty & Honour: The Indian Army, September 1939 - August 1947, part II: Brigades
Milton Keynes, UK: Military Press, 2004
Kempton, Chris
Loyalty & Honour: The Indian Army, September 1939 - August 1947, part III
Milton Keynes, UK: Military Press, 2004
Kitchen, Martin
Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009
Kleinfeld, Gerald R. and Lewis A. Tambs
Hitler's Spanish Legion: The Blue Division in Russia
St Petersburg, FL: Hailer Publishing, 2005
Knox, MacGregor
Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940-1943
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Kochanski, Halik
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012
Latimer, Jon
Burma: The Forgotten War
London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004
League of Nations
The Armaments Year-Book 1939/40
Geneva: League of Nations, 1940
Lemay, Benoit
Erich von Manstein: Hitler's Master Strategist
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2010
Letourneau, Roger and Dennis Letourneau
Operation Ke: The Cactus Air Force and the Japanese Withdrawal from Guadalcanal
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012
Lewis, Adrian R.
Omaha Beach: A Flawed Victory
Chapel Hill, NC: University of N Carolina Press, 2001
Lorant, Jean-Yves and Richard Goyat
Jagdgeschwader 300: A Chronicle of a Fighter Geschwader in the Battle for Germany, volume 1: June 1943 - September 1944
Hamilton, MT: Eagle Editions, Ltd, 2005
Lorant, Jean-Yves and Richard Goyat
JG 300: A Chronicle of a Fighter Geschwader in the Battle for Germany, volume 2: September 1944 - May 1945
Hamilton, MT: Eagle Editions, Ltd, 2007
Ludewig, Joachim
Ruckzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012
Lumans, Valdis O.
Latvia in World War II
New York: Fordham University Press, 2006
Lunde, Henrik O.
Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2011
Lunde, Henrik O.
Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2009
Lyman, Robert
First Victory: Britain's Forgotten Struggle in the Middle East, 1941
London: Constable & Robinson, 2006
Mark, Jason D.
Besieged: The Epic Battle for Cholm
Sydney: Leaping Horseman Books, 2011
Mark, Jason D.
Island of Fire: The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad, November 1942 - February 1943
Sydney: Leaping Horseman Books, 2006
Mary, Jean-Yves, Alain Hohnadel and Jacques Sicard
Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, tome 5
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2010
Mazower, Mark
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
New York: Penguin Press, 2008
Mead, Richard
Churchill's Lions: A Biographical Guide to the Key British Generals of World War II
Staplehurst, UK: Spellmount Ltd, 2007
Melvin, Mungo
Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2010
Middlebrook, Martin and C. Everitt
The Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book, 1939-1945
Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1996
Miller, Edward S.
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007
Miller, Kent D.
Fighter Units & Pilots of the 8th Air Force, September 1942 - May 1945, volume one: Day-to-Day Operations and Fighter Group Histories
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2001
Miller, Kent D.
Fighter Units & Pilots of the 8th Air Force, September 1942 - May 1945, volume two: Aerial Victories and Ace Data
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2001
Miller, Marshall Lee
Bulgaria during the Second World War
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1975
Ministere des Armees
Les Armees Francaises dans la 2eme Guerre Mondiale
Atlas des Situations Quotidiennes des Armees Alliees, Campagne 1939-1940
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1964
Moore, William Mortimer
Free France's Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011
Nevenkin, Kamen
Take Budapest: The Struggle for Hungary, Autumn 1944
Stroud, UK: Spellmount / The History Press, 2012
Nipe, George M.
Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II.SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka
Stamford, CT: RZM Publishing, 2011
O'Hara, Vincent
The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004
O'Hara, Vincent P.
The U.S. Navy against the Axis: Surface Combat, 1941-1945
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007
O'Hara, Vincent P., W. David Dickson, and Richard Worth (ed)
On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010
Obhodas, Amir and Jason D. Mark
Croatian Legion: The 369th Reinforced (Croatian) Infantry Regiment on the Eastern Front, 1941-1943
Sydney: Leaping Horseman Books, 2010
Orange, Vincent
Dowding of Fighter Command: Victor of the Battle of Britain
London: Grub Street, 2008
Orpen, Neil
South African Forces World War II
East African and Abyssinian Campaigns
Cape Town: Purnell, 1968
Osborne, Richard E.
World War II in Colonial Africa: The Death Knell of Colonialism
Indianapolis: Riebel-Roque Publishing, 2001
Pallud, Jean Paul
The Desert War: Then and Now
London: After the Battle, 2013
Parshall, Jonathan and Anthony Tully
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2005
Paterson, Lawrence
Hitler's Grey Wolves: U-Boats in the Indian Ocean
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004
Peattie, Mark, Edward Drea, and Hans van de Ven (editors)
The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010
Perkins, Roger
Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993: A Critical Bibliography of Their Published Histories
Newton Abbot: Perkins, 1994
Perry, F. W.
The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988
Plating, John D.
The Hump: America's Strategy for Keeping China in World War II
College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011
Post, Peter et al (editors)
The Encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War
Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishing, 2009
Prados, John
Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun
New York: New American Library, 2012
Reardon, Mark J. (editor)
Defending Fortress Europe: The War Diary of the German 7th Army in Normandy, 6 June to 26 July 1944
Bedford, PA: Aberjona Press, 2012
Reid, Brian A.
No Holding Back: Operation Totalize, Normandy, August 1944
Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2005
Rielly, Robin L.
Kamikaze Attacks of World War II: A Complete History of Japanese Suicide Strikes on American Ships by Aircraft and Other Means
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2010
Rohwer, Jurgen and G. Hummelchen
Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1992
Rolf, David
The Bloody Road to Tunis: Destruction of the Axis Forces in North Africa, November 1942 - May 1943
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001
Rottman, Gordon L.
World War II Pacific Island Guide: A Geo-Military Study
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press and Praeger Publishers, 2002
Russ, William
Case White: The German Army in the Polish Campaign, September 1939
West Chester, OH: The Nafziger Collection, 2006
Schenk, Peter
Invasion of England, 1940: The Planning of Operation Sealion
London: Conway, 1990
Schick, Albert
Combat History of the 10. Panzer-Division, 1939-1943
Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing Inc, 2013
Schull, Joseph
Canadian Official History
Far Distant Ships: An Official Account of Canadian Naval Operations in World War II
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987
Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008
Sharp, Lee
The French Army, 1939-1940: Organisation, Order of Battle, Operational History, volume I
Milton Keynes, UK: The Military Press, 2002
Shores, Christopher
Air War for Burma: The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia, 1942-1945
London: Grub Street, 2005
Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello with R. Guest
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945, volume one: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942
London: Grub Street, 2012
Shores, Christopher and Hans Ring
Fighters over the Desert: The Air Battles in the Western Desert, June 1940 to December 1942
New York: Arco Publishing, 1969
Shores, Christopher, Hans Ring, and William N. Hess
Fighters over Tunisia
London: Spearman, 1975
Silverstone, Paul H.
The Navy of World War II, 1922-1947
New York: Routledge, 2007
Smith, Colin
England's Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009
Snyder, Timothy
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
New York: Basic Books, 2010
Stahel, David
Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Stanton, Shelby
World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939-1945
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006
Stein, Marcel
Field Marshal von Manstein, a Portrait: The Janus Head
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2007
Stephan, Robert W.
Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence against the Nazis, 1941-1945
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004
Stewart, Richard A.
Sunrise at Abadan: The British and Soviet Invasion of Iran, 1941
New York: Praeger, 1988
Sylvan, William and Francis Smith with John Greenwood (ed)
Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Thomas, Martin
The French Empire at War, 1940-1945
Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2007
Tomasevich, Jozo
War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001
Tooze, Adam
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
New York: Penguin, 2007
Turner, L. C. F. et al
War in the Southern Oceans, 1939-45
Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1961
Ungvary, Krisztian
The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006
Urwin, Gregory J. W.
Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997
US Army
Japanese Monograph no. 71
Army Operations in China, December 1941 - December 1943
Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1956
US Army
Japanese Monograph no. 72
Army Operations in China, January 1944 - August 1945
Washington, DC: Department of the Army, 1956
Walker, Ian W.
Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa
Marlborough, UK: Crowood Press, 2003
Weale, Elke C., John A. Weale, and Richard F. Barker
Combat Aircraft of World War Two
London: Bracken Books, 1985
Weigley, Russell
Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981
Westermann, Edward B.
Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001
Wilbeck, Christopher
Sledgehammers: Strengths and Flaws of Tiger Tank Battalions in World War II
Bedford, PA: Aberjona Press, 2004
Willmott, H.P.
The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005
Womack, Tom
The Dutch Naval Air Force against Japan: The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2006
Woodhouse, C. M.
The Struggle for Greece, 1941-1949
Brooklyn Heights, NY: Beekman/Esanu Publishers, 1976
Woodman, Richard
The Real Cruel Sea: The Merchant Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943
London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2004
Yeide, Harry
Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. through the Eyes of His Enemies
Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2011
Zamulin, Valeriy and Stuart Britton (translator and editor)
Demolishing the Myth: The Tank Battle at Prokhorovka, Kursk, July 1943: An Operational Narrative
Solihull, UK: Helion & Company, 2011
Zetterling, Niklas and Anders Frankson
The Korsun Pocket: The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2008
Zimm, Alan D.
Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions
Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2011
Zuehlke, Mark
Breakout from Juno: First Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign, July 4-August 21, 1944
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011
Zuehlke, Mark
The Gothic Line: Canada's Climactic World War II Triumph in Italy
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005
Zuehlke, Mark
Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005
Zuehlke, Mark
Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory: June 6, 1944
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2005
Zuehlke, Mark
On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23-May 5, 1945
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2010
Zuehlke, Mark
Operation Husky: The Canadian Invasion of Sicily, July 10 - August 7, 1943
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008
Zuehlke, Mark
Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign: September 13 - November 6, 1944
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2007
Zumbro, Derek S.
Battle for the Ruhr: The German Army's Final Defeat in the West
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2006
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