Bibliography of World War II

This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

Primary sources[]

American authors[]

• Acheson, Dean (1969). Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: W.W. Norton.
• Bradley, Omar N. (1951). A Soldier's Story. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
• Calvert, James F. (1995). Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Eisenhower, David (1986). Eisenhower at War, 1943–1945. New York: Random House.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1948). Crusade in Europe. New York: Doubleday. - memoirs
• Eisenhower, John (2003). General Ike. New York: Free Press.
• Halsey, William F., Jr.; Bryan, J., III (1947). Admiral Halsey's Story. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki; Houston, James D. (1973). Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
• MacArthur, Douglas (1964). Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Patton, George S. (1947). War as I Knew It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• ——— (1972–1974). Blumenson, Martin (ed.). The Patton Papers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

British authors[]

• Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord (2001). Danchev, Alex; Todman, Daniel (eds.). War Diaries, 1939–1945. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
• Churchill, Winston (1948–1952). The Second World War. 6 volumes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Pownall, Sir Henry (1972). Bond, Brian (ed.). The Diaries of Sir Henry Pownall. London: Leo Cooper.
• Spears, Sir Edward (1954). Assignment to Catastrophe. London: Heinemann. - memoir of British ambassador to France

French authors[]

• Baudouin, Paul (1948). Private Diaries: March 1940-January 1941. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
• Beauvoir, Simone de (1963). La Force des Choses [The Force of Things] (in French). Paris: Gallimard.
• Bidault, Georges (1965). D'une résistance a l'autre [Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault] (in French). Paris: Les Presses du Siécle.
• de Gaulle, Charles (1955). War Memoirs. Vol. 1, The Call to Honor 1940–1942. Translated by Griffin, Jonathan. New York: Viking.

German authors[]

• Anonymous German woman (2005). A Woman in Berlin. London: Virago. - diary
• Altner, Helmut (2002). Berlin: Dance of Death. Translated by Le Tissier, Tony. Havertown, Penn.: Casemate. - memoir
• Below, Nicolaus von (1980). Als Hitler's Adjutant, 1937–1945 [At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937–1945] (in German). Mainz: Hase & Koehler.
• Böll, Heinrich (2001). Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939–1945 [Letters from the War 1939–1945] (in German). Cologne: Kiepenhauer & Witsch.
• Guderian, Heinz (1952). Erinnerungen eines Soldaten [Panzer Leader] (in German). Translated by Fitzgibbon, Constantine. New York: E. P. Dutton.
• Halder, Franz (1947). War Journal of Franz Halder. vols. 1–8. United States: A.G. EUCOM. |volume= has extra text (help)
• Manstein, Erich von (1955). Verlorene Siege [Lost Victories] (in German).
• Speer, Albert (1997). Inside the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Italian authors[]

• Ciano, Count Galeazzo (1945). Ciano's Hidden Diary, 1937–1938. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
• ——— (1946). Wilson, Hugh (ed.). The Ciano Diaries: 1939–1943. New York: Doubleday.

Japanese authors[]

• Nagai, Takashi (1949). The Bells of Nagasaki. Tokyo: Kodansha. - memoir of survivor of atomic bombings of Nagasaki

Soviet authors[]

• Berezkhov, Valentin (1994). At Stalin's Side: His Interpreter's Memoirs From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Dictator's Empire. Seacaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub. Group.
• ——— (1983). History in the Making: Memoirs of World War II Diplomacy. Moscow: Progress Publishers.
• Khrushchev, Nikita S. (1970). Talbott, Strobe (ed.). Khrushchev Remembers. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

Secondary sources[]

General histories[]

• Baker, Nicholson (2006). Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Baudot, Marcel; et al., eds. (1980) [First published 1977]. The Historical Encyclopedia of World War II. Translated by Dilson, Jesse. New York: Facts On File. ISBN 0-87196-401-5. LCCN 80020339. OCLC 20533793. OL 4105655M.
• Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Bell, P. M. H. (2011). Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Bess, Michael (2008). Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. New York: Vintage.
• Bigelow, Barbara C.; Slovey, Christine (2000). World War II: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL.
• Bishop, Chris, ed. (2002). The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. New York: Metro Books.
• Burleigh, Michael (2010). Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. New York: Harper Collins.
• Calvocoressi, Peter; Wint, Guy (1972). Total War: The Story of World War II. New York: Pantheon.
• Commager, Henry Steele (1991). The Story of the Second World War. Washington DC: Brassey's.
• Davies, Norman (2008). No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945. New York: Penguin Books.
• Dear, I. C. B.; Foot, M. R. D., eds. (1995). The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Deighton, Len (1993). Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: Harper Collins. - covers from 1917 to 1941
• Ellis, John (1990). Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: Viking.
• Federal Republic of Germany, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (Military History Research Office) (1979–2008). Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg [The German Reich and the Second World War] (in German). 13 volumes. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.
• Gilbert, Martin (1989). The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
• Hanson, Victor Davis (2017). The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. New York: Basic Books.
• Harrison, Mark (1998). The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Hastings, Max (2001). All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945. London: Harper Collins.
• ——— (2016). The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939–1945. New York: Harper.
• Holt, Thaddeus (2004). The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Hogg, Ian V. (1996). Dictionary of World War II. Lincolnwood, Illinois: NTC Publishing.
• Ireland, Bernard (1998). Jane's Naval History of World War II. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-472143-8. LCCN 99159346. OCLC 246589604. OL 62805M.
• Keegan, John, ed. (1989). The Times Atlas of the Second World War. New York: Harper & Row.
• ——— (1989). The Second World War. New York: Viking.
• ——— (1995). Who's Who In World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Kitchen, Martin (1990). A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London: Longman.
• Lyons, Michael J. (1999). World War II: A Short History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
• Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1990). Chronicle of the Second World War. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Group.
• Miller, Nathan (1995). War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Milward, Alan (1977). War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. London: Alan Lane.
• Murray, Williamson; Millett, Allan R. (2000). A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Harvard University Press.
• Nardo, Don (2005). World War II. Detroit: Greenhaven Press.
• Overy, Richard (1997). Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• ———, ed. (2015). The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. Oxford University Press.
• Parker, R. A. C. (2002). Second World War: A Short History. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks.
• Parrish, Thomas; Marshall, S. L. A. (1978). The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Polmar, Norman; Allen, Thomas (1996). World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941–1945. New York: Random House. (reprints have slightly different titles)
• "Purnell's History of the Second World War". Paulton, Eng.: Purnell & Sons. Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help) – magazine series
• Roberts, Andrew (2011). The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. New York: Harper Perennial.
• Schreiber, Gerhard (2003). Der Zweite Weltkrieg. München: Verlag C.H.Beck.
• Snell, John L. (1965). Illusion and Necessity: The Diplomacy of Global War, 1939–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Snyder, Louis L. (1982). Historical Guide to World War II. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
• Stokesbury, James L. (1980). A Short History of World War II. New York: Morrow.
• Taylor, A. J. P. (1961). The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton.
• Tucker, Spencer; Roberts, Priscilla Mary, eds. (2005). World War II: A Student Encyclopedia. 5 volumes. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.
• Waller, John H. (1996). The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. New York: Random House.
• Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (2007). The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: A. A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26283-7. LCCN 2007003640. OCLC 209249990. OL 22764689M.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1994). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Willmott, H.P. (2008). The Great Crusade. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
• Winkler, Heinrich August (2015). The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Wright, Gordon (1968). The Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945. New York: Harper & Row.

Atlases[]

• Faulkner, Marcus & Wilkinson, Peter (2012). War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• Gilbert, Martin (2009). The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War.
• Horrabin, J. F. (1941–1943). An Atlas History Of The Second Great War. 9 volumes. — 7 volumes are viewable at archive.org
• Hyslop, Stephen G.; Kagan, Neil (2018). Atlas of World War II: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography.
• Keegan, John (1989). The Times Atlas of the Second World War.
• Smurthwaite, David (2000). The Pacific War Atlas 1941–1945.
• Swanston, Alexander; Swanston, Malcolm (2014). The Historical Atlas of World War II.
• Young, Peter; Natkiel, Richard, eds. (2000). The Cassell Atlas of the Second World War.

European Theatre[]

• Addison, Paul; Calder, Angus, eds. (1997). Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939–1945. London: Pimlico.
• Ahonen, Pertti; Kochanowski, Jerzy; Corni, Gustavo (2008). Occupation in Europe—People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and its Aftermath. London: Berg.
• Axworthy, Mark; Scafes, Cornel I.; Crǎciuniou, Cristian (1995). Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. London: Arms and Armour.
• Beevor, Antony (2002). The Fall of Berlin, 1945. New York: Penguin.
• ——— (2018). The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. New York: Viking.
• Blair, Clay (1996). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942. New York: Random House.
• ——— (1998). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945. New York: Random House.
• Bower, Tom (1997). Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors. New York: HarperCollins.
• Burdick, Charles B. (1968). Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
• Carlgren, W. M. (1977). Swedish Foreign Policy during the Second World War. Translated by Spencer, Arthur. New York: St. Martin's.
• Carter, Carolle J. (1977). The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books. ISBN 0-87015-221-1.
• Cole, Hugh M. (1950). The Lorraine Campaign: The European Theater of Operations Series. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army.
• Cornelius, Deborah S. (2011). Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. New York: Fordham University Press.
• Corum, James S.; Mertelsmann, Olaf; Piirimaee, Kaarel, eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
• Davies, Norman (2006). Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory. London: Macmillan.
• De Jong, Loe (1969–1991). The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II. 14 volumes. Amsterdam: Dutch Institute for War Documentation. — official history
• Deletant, Dennis (2006). Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Dimbleby, Jonathan (2016). The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• DiNardo, Richard (2005). Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Dreisziger, Nandor F., ed. (1983). Hungary and the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Duggan, John P. (1985). Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan.
• Dwyer, T. Ryle (2009). Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland's Phoney Neutrality during World War II. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan.
• Edwards, Robert (2008). The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–1940. New York: Pegasus.
• Fenyo, Mario D. (1972). Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Fisk, Robert (1983). In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Gawne, Jonathan (1998). Spearheading D-Day: American Special Units, 6 June 1944. New York: Casemate.
• Giurescu, Dinu C. (2000). Romania in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs.
• Grier, Howard D. (2007). Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944–1945. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press.
• Halbrook, Stephen (2010). The Swiss and the Nazis. Philadelphia: Casemate Pub.
• Hapgood, David (2002). Monte Cassino: The Story of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II. New York: Da Capo Press.
• Hastings, Max (2004). Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Hill, Alexander (2017). The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kaufmann, J. E.; Jurga, Robert M. (1999). Fortress Europe, European Fortifications of World War II. London: Greenhill Books.
• Keegan, John (1994). Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Penguin Books.
• Kershaw, Ian (2015). To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949. New York: Viking.
• Knox, MacGregor (2000). Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kreis, Georg (2000). Switzerland and the Second World War. London: Cass.
• Krosby, H. Peter (1968). Finland, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940–1941: The Petsamo Dispute. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Leitz, Christian (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
• Levine, Alan J. (2000). From the Normandy Beaches To The Baltic Sea: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
• Littlejohn, David (1972). The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940–45. London: Heinemann.
• ——— (1987). Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 1 Norway, Denmark, France. Bender Publishing.
• Lukacs, John (1999). Five Days in London, May 1940. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Lunde, Henrik O. (2011). Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II. Havertown, Pennsylvania: Casemate.
• Gilmour, John (2011). Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Glantz, David M. (2007). Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Macartney, Carlile A. (1956–1957). October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929–1945. 2 vols. Edinburgh: University Press.CS1 maint: location (link)
• Macdonald, Charles B. (1969). The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Morgan, Philip (2007). The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• Murray, Williamson (1984). The Change in the European Balance of Power 1938–1939. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• O'Hara, Vincent (2009). Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Payne, Stanley G. (2008). Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Perry, Marvin (2013). World War II in Europe: A Concise History. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing.
• Petrow, Richard (1974). The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow.
• Pike, David Wingeate (2008). Franco and the Axis Stigma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Rachev, Stoyan (1981). Anglo-Bulgarian Relations during the Second World War, 1939–1944. Translated by Kostov, Stefan. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia.
• Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. (2007). The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45. London: Routledge.
• Ryan, Cornelius (1995). A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Airborne Battle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh (2006). Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Smith, Colin (2009). England's Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940–1942. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Statiev, Alexander (2010). The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Tamkin, Nicholas (2009). Britain, Turkey, and the Soviet Union, 1940–45: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Trotter, William R. (1991). A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–40. New York: Algonquin.
• Thomas, R. T. (1979). Britain and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo-French Relations, 1940–42. New York: St. Martin's.
• Ungvary, Krisztian (2005). The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Van Dyke, Carl (1997). The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939–40. London: Cass.
• Vehviläinen, Olli (2002). Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Vintras, Roland E. (1974). The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History of the Azores Base. London: Bachman and Turner.
• Weber, Frank G. (1979). The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain, and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
• Weber, Ronald (2011). The Lisbon Route: Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe. Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee.
• Weigley, Russell F. (1981). Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany 1944–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Weiss, Kenneth G. (1980). The Azores in Diplomacy and Strategy, 1940–1945. Alexandria, Virginia: Institute of Naval Studies, Center for Naval Analysis.
• Wilmot, Chester (1952). The Struggle for Europe. New York: Harper.
• Wiskemann, Elizabeth (1949). The Rome-Berlin Axis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
• Wylie, Neville, ed. (2001). European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Wylie, Neville (2003). Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Zabecki, David, ed. (1999). World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. 2 volumes. New York: Routledge.

Invasion of Poland[]

• Böhler, Jochen (2006). Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg: Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939 [Prelude to the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht in Poland, 1939] (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.
• Forczyk, Robert (2019). Case White: The Invasion of Poland. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
• Kochanski, Halik (2012). The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Koskodan, Kenneth K. (2009). No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
• Moorhouse, Roger (2019). First to Fight: The Polish War 1939. London: Bodely Head.
• ——— (2020). Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II. New York: Basic Books.
• Rossino, Alexander B. (2003). Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Zaloga, Steven; Madej, Victory (1991). The Polish Campaign, 1939. New York: Hippocrene.

Invasions of France and the Low Countries[]

• Beaufre, André (1967). The Fall of France. London: Cassell.
• Bloch, Marc (1968) [1946]. Strange Defeat. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. – Battle of France
• Deighton, Len (1979). Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk. London: Jonathan Cape.
• Horne, Alistair (1969). To Lose a Battle: France 1940. Boston: Little Brown.
• Shirer, William L (1969). The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Battle of Britain[]

• Addison, Paul; Craig, Jeremy, eds. (2010). Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May to September 1940. London: Bodley Head.
• Bishop, Patrick (2004). Fighter Boys: Saving Britain, 1940. London: Harper Perennial.
• Deighton, Len (1977). Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Jonathan Cape.
• Holland, James (2012). The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History, May–October 1940. New York: St. Martin's Griffin.
• Morgan, David; Evans, Mary (1993). The Battle for Britain: Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War. New York: Routledge.
• Overy, Richard (2002). The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Todman, Daniel (2016). Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937–1941. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Balkan Campaign[]

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

East African Campaign[]

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

North African Campaign[]

• Atkinson, Rick (2002). An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
• Barnett, Correlli (1960). The Desert Generals. London: George, Allen & Unwin.
• Barr, Niall (2006). The Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El-Alamein. London: Overlook Press.
• Kitchen, Martin (2009). Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941–1943. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Latimer, Jon (2002). Alamein. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Lewin, Ronald (1977). The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps. New York: Quadrangle.
• Levine, Alan J. (1999). The War Against Rommel's Supply Lines, 1942–1943. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers.

German-Soviet War 1941–1945[]

• Adair, Paul (1994). Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The Collapse of Army Group Centre, June 1944. London: Arms and Armour.
• Baker, Lee (2009). The Second World War on the Eastern Front. London: Pearson Longman.
• Barber, John; Dzeniskevich, A. R., eds. (2005). Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941–1944. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.
• Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Beevor, Antony (1998). Stalingrad. London: Viking.
• Bergstrom, Christer (2007). Kursk: The Air Battle, July 1943. Hersham, UK: Classic Publications.
• Boog, Horst; et al. (1998). Osers, Ewald (ed.). The Attack on the Soviet Union. Germany and the Second World War. IV. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 9780198228868. LCCN 99223914. OL 106342M.
• ———; et al. (2001). Osers, Ewald (ed.). The Global War. Germany and the Second World War. VI. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 978-0198738305. OL 7397819M.
• Citino, Robert M. (2007). Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Craig, William (1973). Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. New York: Penguin Books.
• Dibold, Hans (2001). Doctor at Stalingrad. Littleton, Colorado: Aberdeen Publishing.
• Duffy, Christopher (1993). Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. New York: Da Capo Press.
• Dunn, Walter S. (2000). Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner.
• Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf von; Wieder, Joachim (1998). Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments. New York: Sterling Publishing.
• Erickson, John (1984). The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany. 1. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
• Forczyk, Robert (2007). Panther vs. T-34: Ukraine 1943. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
• ——— (2009). Leningrad 1941–44: The Epic Siege. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
• ——— (2014). Where Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941–44. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
• Fritz, Stephen G. (1995). Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Fritz, Stephen G. (2011). Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Glantz, David M. (2002). The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• ——— (2011). After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942–1943. Oxford: Helion and Company.
• Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan (1995). When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• ———; House, Jonathan (1999). The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• ———; House, Jonathan (2009). To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet—German Combat Operations April to August 1942. Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas.
• ———; House, Jonathan (2009). Armageddon in Stalingrad: September to November 1942. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• Hartmann, Christian (2013). Operation Barbarossa: Germany's War in the East, 1941–1945. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• Hayward, Joel (1998). Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942–1943. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• Healy, Mark. (2008). Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4–17 July 1943. The History Press.
• Hellbeck, Jochen (2015). Stalingrad: The City That Defeated The Third Reich. New York: PublicAffairs.
• Hill, Alexander (2017). The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Jones, Michael K. (2007). Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught. Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania: Casemate.
• Kehrig, Manfred (1974). Stalingrad. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags Anstalt.
• Mawdsley, Evan (2005). Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Hodder Arnold.
• Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2006). War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Müller, Rolf-Dieter; Ueberschär, Gerd R. (1997). Hitler's War in the East, 1941–1945: A Critical Assessment. Oxford: Berghahn.
• Niepold, Gerd (1987). Battle for White Russia: The Destruction of Army Group Center, June 1944. London: Brassey's Defense Publishers.
• Raus, Erhard (2003). Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941–1945. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press.
• Reid, Anna (2012). Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944. New York: Walker & Co.
• Reinhardt, Klaus (1992). Moscow: The Turning Point. Oxford: Berg.
• Roberts, Geoffrey (2002). Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History. New York: Longman.
• Salisbury, Harrison E. (1969). The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. London: Pan.
• Seaton, Albert (1971). The Russo-German War, 1941–1945. London: Arthur Barker.
• Stahel, David (2009). Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• ——— (2011). Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• ——— (2013). Operation Typhoon. Hitler's March on Moscow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• ——— (2019). Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941–1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Zetterling, Niklas; Frankson, Anders (2000). Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis. London: Frank Cass.
• Ziemke, Earl F. (1968). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army.
• ———; Bauer, Magna E. (1987). Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army.

Italian Campaign 1943–1945[]

• Agarossi, Elena (2000). A Nation Collapses: The Italian Surrender of 1943. Translated by Fergusson, Harvey, II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Atkinson, Rick (2007). The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
• Ellwood, David (1985). Italy, 1943–1945. New York: Holmes and Meier.
• Lamb, Richard (1993). War in Italy 1943–1945: A Brutal Story. New York: St. Martin's.

Operation Bodyguard[]

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

Western Front 1944–1945[]

• Ambrose, Stephen (1997). Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• ——— (1994). D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• ——— (1985). Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Atkinson, Rick (2013). The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
• Balkokski, Joseph (1999). Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books.
• Bédarida, François, ed. (1987). Normandie 44, du débarquement à la libération [Normandy 44: Landing to the Liberation] (in French). Paris: A. Michel.
• Beevor, Antony (2009). D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. London: Penguin.
• ——— (2015). Ardennes 1944: Battle of the Bulge. London: Viking.
• Belfield, Eversley; Essame, Hubert (1965). The Battle for Normandy. Philadelphia: Dufour Editions.
• Blumenson, Martin (1961). Breakout and Pursuit. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Dept. of the Army. — First and Third United States Armies
• ——— (1993). The Battle of the Generals: The Untold Story of the Falaise Pocket – The Campaign That Should Have Won World War II. New York: William Morrow & Co.
• ——— (1963). The Duel for France, 1944. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Harding, Stephen (2013). 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. — Battle for Castle Itter
• Hart, Russell A. (2001). Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Hastings, Max (1984). Overlord: D-day and the Battlefor Normandy. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Keegan, John (1994). Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Penguin Books.
• Kershaw, Alex (2004). The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon. Boston: Da Capo Press.
• Knox, MacGregor (2000). Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Mitcham, Samuel W., Jr. (1997). The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's Defense of Fortress Europe. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
• Ryan, Cornelius (1974). A Bridge Too Far. New York: Simon & Schuster. — Operation Market Garden
• ——— (1959). The Longest Day. New York: Simon & Schuster. — Normandy landings

Battle of Berlin[]

• Beevor, Antony (2002). Berlin: The Downfall 1945. London: Viking.

Pacific Theatre[]

• Agawa, Hiroyuki (1979). The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. New York: Kodansha American.
• Aldrich, Richard J. (1993). The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Allen, Louis (2002). Burma: The Longest War, 1941–45. London: Phoenix.
• Bell, Roger J. (1977). Unequal Allies: Australian–American Relations and the Pacific War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Bergerud, Eric M. (1996). Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books.
• ——— (2000). Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
• Blair, Clay (1975). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. New York: J.P. Lippincott Company.
• Bradley, John H.; Dice, Jack W.; Buell, Thomas B.; Griess, Thomas E. (1992). The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific. Wayne, N.J: Avery Publishing Group.
• Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Carpenter, Dorr; Polmar, Norman (1986). Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Costello, John (1982). The Pacific War, 1941–1945. New York: Quill.
• Cutler, Thomas J. (1994). The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23–26 October 1944. New York: Harper Collins.
• Drea, Edward J. (2009). Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
• Dunnigan, James (1998). The Pacific War Encyclopedia. New York: Checkmark Books.
• Francillon, Robert (1979). Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Gamble, Bruce (2010). Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942–April 1943. New York: Zenith Press.
• Hastings, Max (2007). Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. London: HarperCollins.
• Hoyt, Edwin P. (1993). The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
• Ienaga, Saburo (1978). The Pacific War: 1931–45. New York: Pantheon.
• Rikihei, Inoguchi; Tadashi, Nakajima; Pineau, Roger (1958). The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Iriye, Akira (1987). The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. New York and London: Longman.
• Lyman, Robert (2011). Japan's Last Bid for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944. Barnsley, UK: Praetorian.
• Maga, Timothy P. (2001). Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
• Marston, Daniel, ed. (2010). The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Oxford: Osprey.
• McNalty, Bernard (1978). War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. New York: Mayflower.
• Miller, Edward S. (2007). War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-500-7.
• Ofstie, Ralph A. (1946). The Campaigns of the Pacific War. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.
• Paine, Sarah C. M. (2012). The Wars for Asia 1911–1949. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Rottman, Gordon L. (2002). U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
• Sandler, Stanley, ed. (2005). World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland.
• Spector, Ronald (1985). Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan. New York: Vintage Books.
• Thompson, Robert S. (2001). Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia. New York: Basic Books.
• Thorne, Christopher (1986). The Far Eastern War: States and Societies, 1941–45. London: Unwin.
• Toll, Ian W. (2011). Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942. New York: W. W. Norton.
• ——— (2015). The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944. New York: W. W. Norton.
• ——— (2020). Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945. New York: W. W. Norton.
• Willmott, H. P. (1999). The Second World War in the Far East. London: Cassell.
• Woolridge, E. T., ed. (1993). Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Attack on Pearl Harbor[]

• Beekman, Allan (1992). Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press.
• Goldstein, Donald M.; Dillon, Katherine V., eds. (1993). The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's.
• Hotta, Eri (2013). Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Prange, Gordon W. (1981). At Dawn We Slept. McGraw-Hill.
• ——— (1988). Dec. 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. McGraw-Hill.
• Rosenberg, Emily S. (2005). A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
• Zimm, Alan D. (2011). Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. Philadelphia and Newbury: Casemate Publishers.

Battle of Midway[]

• Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony (2005). Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
• Prange, Gordon W. (1982). Miracle at Midway. McGraw-Hill.
• Symonds, Craig L. (2013). The Battle of Midway. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Guadalcanal Campaign[]

• Frank, Richard B. (1990). Guadalcanal. New York: Penguin Books.
• Hornfischer, James D. (2011). Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. New York: Bantam.
• Tregaskis, Richard (1943). Guadalcanal Diary. New York: Random House.

Operation Hailstone[]

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

Battle of Iwo Jima[]

• Albee, Parker Bishop, Jr.; Freeman, Keller Cushing (1995). Shadow of Suribachi: Raising the Flags on Iwo Jima. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.

Battle of Okinawa[]

• Feifer, George (1992). Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb. New York: Ticknor & Fields.
• Spurr, Russell (1981). A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945. New York: Newmarket Press.

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki[]

• Allen, Thomas B.; Polmar, Norman (1995). Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Hersey, John (1946). Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Miscamble, Wilson D. (2011). The Most Controversial Decision: Truman, the Atomic Bombs, and the Defeat of Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Pellegrino, Charles R. (2010). The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
• Rhodes, Richard (1995). The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Rotter, Andrew J. (2008). Hiroshima: The World's Bomb. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Takayama, Hitoshi (1973). Hiroshima in Memoriam and Today: Hiroshima as a Testimony of Peace for Mankind.
• Weller, George; Weller, Anthony, eds. (2006). First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. New York: Crown.
• Yanagida, Kunio (1975). A Blank in the Weather Map. Tokyo: Shinchosha.

Strategic bombing[]

• Biddle, Tami Davis (2002). Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press.
• Bishop, Patrick (2008). Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940–1945. London: Harper Perennial.
• Brickhill, Paul (1951). The Dam Busters. London: Evans Brothers.
• Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore (2004). Bomber Aircrew in World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat. Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword Aviation.
• ——— (1984). To Shatter the Sky: Bomber Airfield at War. Cambridge: P. Stephens.
• Friedrich, Jörg. (2008). The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Middlebrook, Martin (2000). The Battle of Hamburg. London: Cassell.
• ——— (2000). The Berlin Raids. London: Cassell.
• ——— (1985). The Bomber Command War Diaries. London: Viking.
• ——— (1986). The Nuremberg Raid. London: Penguin.
• O'Neill, Brian D. (1999). Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Overy, Richard (2014). The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940–1945. New York: Viking. — 562 pages; covers the civil defence and the impact on the home fronts of Allied strategic bombing of Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Scandinavia.
• Taylor, Frederick (2004). Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. New York: HarperCollins.

Biographies[]

• Ambrose, Stephen (1992). Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• ——— (1998). The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys - The Men of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• ——— (2001). The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s Over Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Barrett, Duncan; Calvi, Nuala (2003). GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love. London: Harper Collins.
• Beevor, Antony; Vinogradova, Lyuba, eds. (2005). A Writer at War – Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945. New York: Pantheon Books.
• Beria, Sergo (2001). Beria my Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin. London: Duckworth.
• Bezborodova, Irina; Prügger, Hermione (1998). Generäle des Dritten Reich in sowjetischer Hand [Generals of the Third Reich in Soviet Hands] (in German). Graz: Selbstverlag des Vereins zur Förderung der Forschung von Folgen nach Konflikten und Kriegen.
• Bird, Keith (2006). Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Blum, John Morton (1970). Roosevelt and Morgenthau: A Revision and Condensation of From the Morgenthau Diaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Brissaud, Andre (1974). Colvin, Ian (ed.). Canaris: The Biography of Admiral Canaris, Chief of German Military Intelligence in the Second World War. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
• Bruckner, Karl (1962). The Day of the Bomb. Van Nostrand. — biography of Sadako Sasaki
• Chaney, Otto Preston Jr. (1971). Zhukov. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Clark, Andrew (2003). A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada.
• Donovan, Robert J. (2001). PT-109: John F. Kennedy in WW II (40th Anniversary ed.). McGraw Hill.
• Duffy, Peter (2004). 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. — Belarusians who resisted the Nazis
• Fest, Joachim C. (2002). Hitler. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt.
• Fraser, David (1995). Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. New York: Harper.
• Funk, Arthur L. (1959). Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943–1944. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Gerwarth, Robert (2011). Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Martin, Gilbert (1983). Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941. London: William Heinemann.
• ——— (1986). Road to Victory: Winston S. Churchill 1941–1945. London: William Heinemann.
• Jablonsky, David (2010). War by Land, Sea, and Air: Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Joachimsthaler, Anton (1999). The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth. Brockhampton Press.
• Johnson, Gudrun; Gardner, Johan (1949–1951). Ording, Arne (ed.). Våre falne 1939–1945 [Our Fallen 1939—1945] (in Norwegian). 4 volumes. Oslo: Norwegian Government. — biographical dictionary
• Jordan, Jonathan W. (2015). American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II. New York: NAL Caliber.
• ——— (2011). Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe. New York: NAL Caliber.
• Jungk, Robert (1958). Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. San Diego: Harcourt.
• Kershaw, Ian (2000). Hitler: 1889–1936, Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• ——— (2001). Hitler: 1936–1945, Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
• ——— (2008). Hitler: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Kirsch, Jonathan (2013). The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Koerner, Brendan I. (2008). Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. New York: Penguin. — biography of Herman Perry
• Longerich, Peter (2012). Heinrich Himmler: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• ——— (2015). Goebbels: A Biography. New York: Random House.
• Manchester, William (1978). American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
• McNeal, Robert H. (1988). Stalin: Man and Ruler. New York: New York University Press.
• Moore, Gary W. (2006). Playing With the Enemy. New York: Penguin. — biography of baseball player Gene Moore
• Polansky, Paul. (1998). Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak. Self-published. — Romanis who lived in the Lety concentration camp
• Pogue, Forrest C. (1973). George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943–1945. New York: Viking.
• Ranković, Aleksandar (1947). Traitor Draža Mihailović: In the Hands of the Authority of People's Power. Svoboda.
• Rees, Laurence (2008). Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII. London: Ebury.
• Reid, Warren R., ed. (1961). Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S Truman, 1945. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
• Sereny, Gitta (1995). Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Suvorov, Viktor (1990). Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?. London: Hamish Hamilton. — alleges Stalin manipulated Hitler into starting the war
• Uchida, Yoshiko (1995). The Invisible Thread. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Beech Tree Books. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
• Wagner, Stephen; Wagner, Sharon Wells (2008). Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories of World War II. Booksurge. — collection of reminiscences from veterans
• Weigley, Russell (1974). Eisenhower's Lieutenants. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.

Dwight D. Eisenhower[]

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

Adolf Hitler[]

William Lyon Mackenzie King[]

Pius XII[]

Harry S. Truman[]

Holocaust[]

German occupation of Europe[]

• Berkhoff, Karel C. (2004). Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Blood, Phillip W. (2006). Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
• Burrin, Philippe (1993). France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise. New York: New Press.
• Dallin, Alexander (1981). German Rule in Russia 1941–1945. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
• Fritzsche, Peter (2016). An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler. New York: Basic Books.
• Gregor, Neil, ed. (2008). Nazism, War and Genocide. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
• Hale, Christopher (2011). Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret. The History Press.
• Mazower, Mark (2008). Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin.
• Shepherd, Ben (2004). War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Winstone, Martin (2015). The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government. New York: I. B. Tauris.

Regional histories[]

• Allen, Louis (1977). Singapore 1941–1942. Wilmington: University of Delaware Press.
• Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R. (2006). The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Del Boca, Angelo (1969). The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by Cummins, P. D. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Engen, Robert (2009). Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Montreal: MQUP.
• Evans, Mark L. (1999). Great World War II Battles in the Arctic. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Francis, Michael J. (1977). The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press.
• Frank, Gary (1979). Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami: University of Miami Press.
• Goda, Norman J. W. (1998). Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
• Hirszowicz, Lukasz (1966). The Third Reich and the Arab East. London: Routledge.
• Jellison, Charles A. (1985). Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England.
• Kippenberger, Howard; Fairbrother, Monty C., eds. (1949–1986). Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45. 48 volumes. Wellington: War History Branch. — official history
• Mallmann, Klaus-Michael; Cüppers, Martin (2010). Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Translated by Smith, Krista. New York: Enigma.
• Mann, Chris; Jorgensen, Christer (2003). Arctic War. New York: St. Martins Press.
• McCann, Frank D., Jr. (1973). The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Moorhead, Alan; Keegan, John (2001). Desert War: The North African Campaign, 1940–1943. New York: Penguin.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). Operations in North African Waters: October 1942–June 1943. New York: Book Sales.
• Motadel, David (2014). Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press.
• Newton, Ronald C. (1992). The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931–1947. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Reynolds, E. Bruce (2005). Thailand's Secret War: The Free Thais, OSS, and SOE during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Sharfman, Daphna (2014). Palestine in the Second World War: Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press.
• Woodman, Richard (1996). Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. London: John Murray Publications.
• Zweig, Ronald W. (1986). Britain and Palestine during the Second World War. New York: St. Martin's.

Australia[]

• Adam-Smith, Patsy (1984). Australian Women at War. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson Australia.
• Beaumont, Joan, ed. (1996). Australia's War, 1939–1945. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
• Charlton, Peter (1983). The Unnecessary War: Island Campaigns of the South-West Pacific 1944–45. South Melbourne: The MacMillan Company of Australia.
• Day, David (1992). Reluctant Nation: Australia and the Allied Defeat of Japan, 1942–1945. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Day, David (1999). John Curtin: A Life. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers.
• Day, David (2003). The Politics of War. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers.
• Horner, David (1982). High Command. Australia and Allied strategy 1939–1945. Sydney: Allen & Unwin with the assistance of the Australian War Memorial.
• Johnston, Mark (1996). At the Front Line : Experiences of Australian Soldiers in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Johnston, Mark (2007). The Australian Army in World War II. Elite. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.
• Johnston, Mark (2011). Whispering Death: Australian Airmen in the Pacific War. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin.
• Forbes, Cameron (2005). Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War. Sydney: Pan MacMillan Australia.
• Long, Gavin, ed. (1952–1977). Australia in the War of 1939–1945. 22 volumes. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. — official history series* McKernan, Michael (1983). All In! Australia During the Second World War. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson Australia.
• McKernan, Michael (2006). The Strength of a Nation. Six years of Australians fighting for the nation and defending the homeland during WWII. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
• Powell, Alan (1988). The Shadow's Edge: Australia's Northern War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Powell, Alan (1996). War by Stealth: Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, 1942–1945. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Pratten, Garth (2009). Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War. Port Melbourne, Victoria: Cambridge University Press.
• Stanley, Peter (2008). Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942. Melbourne: Penguin Group (Australia).
• Thomson, Joyce (1991). The WAAAF in Wartime Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
• Wahlert, Glenn, ed. (1995). Australian Army Amphibious Operations in the South-West Pacific: 1942–45. Canberra: Australian Army Doctrine Centre.

China[]

• Brook, Timothy (2005). Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press.
• Hsiung, James C.; Levine, Steven I. (1992). China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937–1945. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
• Liu, Xiaoyuan (1996). A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Mitter, Rana (2013). Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Peattie, Mark; Drea, Edward; Ven, Hans Van De, eds. (2011). The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
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• Sih, Paul K. T., ed. (1977). Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press.
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• Tuchman, Barbara (1972). Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911–1945. New York: Bantam.
• History of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Translated by Ha-hsiung, Wen. Tapei: Chung Wu Publishing Co. 1971.
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Finland[]

• Berry, R. Michael (1987). American Foreign Policy and the Finnish Exception: Ideological Preferences and Wartime Realities. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society.
• Lundin, Charles Leonard (1957). Finland in the Second World War. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
• Menger, M (1988). Deutschland und Finnland im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Berlin: Militärverlag.
• Semiryaga, Mikhail (1990). The Winter War: Looking Back after Fifty Years. Moscow: Novosti.
• Van Dyke, Carl (1997). The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939–1940. London: Frank Cass.
• Vehviläinen, Olli (2002). Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave.

France[]

• Amouroux, Henri (1976–1993). La Grande Histoire des Français sous l'Occupation [The Grand History of the French Under Occupation] (in French). 10 volumes. Paris: R. Laffont.
• Aron, Robert (1964). France Reborn: The History of the Liberation, June 1944-May 1945. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
• Davies, Peter (2001). France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance. London: Routledge.

Germany[]

Japan[]

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• Cohen, Jerome B. (1949). Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Cook, Haruko Taya; Cook, Theodore F., eds. (1992). Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press.
• Deacon, Richard (1982). A History of the Japanese Secret Service. London: Fredrick Muller.
• Drea, Edward J. (2003). In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
• Dull, Paul S. (2007). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R., eds. (1996). The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Goldstein, D. M.; Dillon, K. V., eds. (2004). The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II. Dulles, Virginia: Brasseys.
• Goralski, Robert; Freeburg, Russell W. (1987). Oil and war: How the deadly struggle for fuel in WWII meant victory or defeat. Morrow.
• Gordon, David M. (2006). "The China-Japan War, 1931–1945". Journal of Military History. 70 (1): 137–182. doi:10.1353/jmh.2006.0052. S2CID 161822140.
• Gruhl, Werner (2007). Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931–1945. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
• Harries, Meirion; Harries, Susie (1994). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House.
• Hayashi, Saburo and Alvin D. Coox. (1978). Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Hotta, E (2007). Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931–1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ienaga, Saburō (1978). The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon.
• Ike, Nobutaka, ed. (1967). Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Iriye, Akira (1981). Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War 1941–1945. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• ——— (1987). The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. London: Longman.
• Jones, Francis Clifford (1954). Japan's New Order in East Asia: Its Rise and Fall. London: Oxford University Press.
• Koshiro, Yukiko (2001). "Japan's World and World War II". Diplomatic History. 25 (3): 425–441. doi:10.1111/0145-2096.00276. JSTOR 24914126.
• ——— (2004). "Eurasian eclipse: Japan's end game in World War II". American Historical Review. 109 (2): 417–444. doi:10.1086/530338. JSTOR 10.1086/530338.
• ——— (2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press.
• Storry, George Richard (1979). Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia 1894–1943. London: Longman.
• Utley, Jonathan G. (2005). Going to War with Japan 1937–1941. New York: Fordham University Press.
• Willmott, H. P. (1982). Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• ——— (2008). The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies February to June 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.

Middle East[]

• Baram, Phillip (1978). The Department of State in the Middle East, 1919–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Beinin, Joel; Lockman, Zachary (1987). Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882–1954. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Bou-Nacklie, N. E. (1993). "Les Troupes Speciales: Religious and Ethnic Recruitment, 1916–46". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 25 (4): 645–660. doi:10.1017/S0020743800059304. JSTOR 164539.
• ——— (1994). "The 1941 Invasion of Syria and Lebanon: The Role of the Local Paramilitary". Middle Eastern Studies. 30 (3): 512–529. doi:10.1080/00263209408701009. JSTOR 4283655.
• Cohen, Michael J. (1978). Palestine: Retreat from the Mandate. The Making of British Policy, 1936–1945. London: Macmillan.
• Cossaboom, Robert; Leiser, Gary (1998). "Adana Station 1943–45: Prelude to the Post-War American Military Presence in Turkey". Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (1): 73–86. doi:10.1080/00263209808701210. JSTOR 4283918.
• Dadkhah, Kamran M. (2001). "The Iranian Economy during the Second World War: The Devaluation Controversy". Middle Eastern Studies. 37 (2): 181–198. doi:10.1080/714004394. JSTOR 4284160. S2CID 153831209.
• Dann, Uriel; Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah., eds. (1988). The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1919–1939. New York: Holmes and Meier.
• De Luca, Anthony R. (1979). "'Der Grossmufti' in Berlin: The Politics of Collaboration". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 10 (1): 125–138. doi:10.1017/S0020743800053368. JSTOR 162482.
• Deringil, Selim (1989). Turkish Foreign Policy During the Second World War: An "Active" Neutrality. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• El-Eini, Roza (2006). Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine, 1929–1948. London: Routledge.
• Eshraghi, F. (1984). "Anglo-Soviet Occupation of Iran in August 1941". Middle Eastern Studies. 20 (1): 27–52. doi:10.1080/00263208408700570. JSTOR 4282976.
• ——— (1984). "The Immediate Aftermath of Anglo-Soviet Occupation of Iran in August 1941". Middle Eastern Studies. 20 (3): 324–351. doi:10.1080/00263208408700588. JSTOR 4283013.
• Gershoni, Israel; Jankowski, J. (2010). Confronting Fascism in Egypt: Dictatorship Versus Democracy in the 1930s. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Howard, Michael (1993). The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War. London: Greenhill Books.
• Khallaf, Issa (1991). Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration, 1939–1948. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press.
• Kolinsky, Martin (1999). Britain's War in the Middle East: Strategy and Diplomacy, 1936–1942. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan.
• MacFie, A. L. (1989). "The Turkish Straits in the Second World War, 1939–45". Middle Eastern Studies. 25 (2): 238–248. doi:10.1080/00263208908700778. JSTOR 4283302.
• Melka, R. (1969). "Nazi Germany and the Palestine Question". Middle Eastern Studies. 5 (3): 221–233. doi:10.1080/00263206908700130. JSTOR 4282292.
• Morsy, Laila Amin (1994). "Indicative Cases of Britain's Wartime Policy in Egypt, 1942–44". Middle Eastern Studies. 30 (1): 91–122. doi:10.1080/00263209408700985. JSTOR 4283617.
• Motadel, David (2014). Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• Motter, Thomas H. (1952). The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia. Washington, D.C.: US Army Center for Military History.
• Nicosia, Francis R. (1985). The Third Reich and the Palestine Question. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
• Nordbruch, Goetz (2009). Nazism in Lebanon and Syria: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945. London: Routledge.
• Olmert, Y. (1987). "Britain, Turkey and the Levant Question during the Second World War". Middle Eastern Studies. 23 (4): 437–452. doi:10.1080/00263208708700720. JSTOR 4283204.
• Penkower, Monty N. (2002). Decision on Palestine Deferred: America, Britain and Wartime Diplomacy. London: Frank Cass.
• Porath, Yehoshua (1986). In Search of Arab Unity, 1930–1945. London: Frank Cass.
• Roshwald, Aviel (1990). Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• Salerno, Reynolds Mathewson (2002). Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
• Schreiber, Gerhard; Stegemann, Bernd; Vogel, Detlef; McMurry, Dean S., eds. (1995). The Mediterranean, South East Europe and North Africa. Germany and the Second World War. III. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Tamkin, Nicholas (2009). Britain, Turkey and the Soviet Union, 1940–45: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan.
• Warner, Geoffrey (1979). Iraq and Syria 1941. Newark, New Jersey: University of Delaware Press.
• Weber, Frank G. (1979). The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain, and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press.
• Zamir, Meir (2005). "An Intimate Alliance: The Joint Struggle of General Edward Spears and Riad Al-Sulh to Oust France from Lebanon, 1942–1944". Middle Eastern Studies. 41 (6): 811–832. doi:10.1080/00263200500296577. JSTOR 4284410. S2CID 144345005.

Norway[]

• Dahl, Hans Fredrik; Hjeltnes, Guri; Nøkleby, Berit; Ringdal, Nils Johan; Sørensen, Øystein, eds. (1995). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945 [Norwegian War Encyclopedia 1940–1945] (in Norwegian). Oslo: J.W. Cappelens. OCLC 1028274521.
• Derry, T. K. (1952). The Campaign in Norway. London, H.M. Stationary Off.
• Haarr, Geirr (2009). The German Invasion of Norway. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• Heimark, Brice (1994). The OSS Norwegian Special Operations Group in World War II. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
• Lunde, Henrik (2009). Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania: Casemate.
• Giertsen, Børre R., ed. (1946). Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene [Norwegian Prison Encyclopedia, Grini detention camp] (in Norwegian). Oslo: J.W. Cappelens. OCLC 491707642.
• Riste, Olav (1966). "War comes to Norway". In Andenæs, Johannes; Riste, Olav; Skodvin, Magne (eds.). Norway and the Second World War. Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum Förlag. OCLC 802925743.

Poland[]

• Davies, Norman (2003). Rising '44. New York: Macmillan. — Warsaw Uprising
• Garliriski, Jozef (1985). Poland in the Second World War. New York: Hippocrene.
• Kochanski, Halik (2014). The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Lukas, Richard C. (1978). The Strange Allies: The United States and Poland, 1941��1945. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
• Nałkowska, Zofia (1999). Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. — case studies of Nazi crimes against the Polish nation
• Prażmovska, Anita J. (1995). Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Terry, Sarah Meiklejohn (1983). Poland's Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939–1943. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Soviet Union[]

• Andreyev, Catherine (1987). Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement, Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Applebaum, Anne (2003). Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. New York: Doubleday.
• Armstrong, Richard N. (2008). Soviet Operational Deception: The Red Cloak. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
• Bacon, Edwin (1994). The Gulag at War: Stalin's Forced Labour System in Light of the Archives. New York: New York Univ. Press.
• Barber, John and Mark Harrison. (1991). The Soviet Home Front, 1941–1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. London: Longman.
• Bellamy, Chris (2007). Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Braithwaite, Rodric (2006). Moscow 1941: A City and Its People At War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Dunn, Walter S. (2006). Stalin's Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International.
• Ellis, Frank (2011). The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• ——— (2005). Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Gorbachevsky, Boris (2008). Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Gordin, I., ed. (2005). Nasha voina [Our War] (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Izd-vo zhurnala "Zvezda".
• Gorodetsky, Gabriel (1999). The Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Hill, Alexander (2017). The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• ——— (2005). The War Behind the Eastern Front: The Soviet Partisan Movement in North-West Russia, 1941–1944. Abingdon, Oxon: Frank Cass.
• Krivosheev, G. F., ed. (1997). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. London: Greenhill.
• Krylova, Anna (2010). Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Merridale, Catherine (2006). Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York: Picador.
• Miner, Steven Merritt (2003). Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Overy, Richard (1998). Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941–1945. New York: Penguin Books.
• —���— (2006). The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Parrish, Michael (1996). The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
• Reese, Roger R. (1996). Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army 1925–1941. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• ——— (2011). Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Seaton, Albert (1976). Stalin as Warlord. London: Batsford.
• Shukman, Harold, ed. (1993). Stalin's Generals. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Snyder, Timothy (2010). Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books.
• ———; Brandon, Ray, eds. (2014). Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928–1953. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• Stephan, Robert W. (2004). Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941–1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• Stone, David R., ed. (2010). The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword.
• Suvorov, Victor (2008). The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• Uldricks, Teddy J. (2009). "War, Politics and Memory: Russian Historians Reevaluate the Origins of World War II". History and Memory. 21 (2): 60–82. doi:10.2979/his.2009.21.2.60. S2CID 153650494. — historiography
• Wegner, Bernd, ed. (1997). From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939–1941. Oxford: Berghahn.
• Weiner, Amir (2001). Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Werth, Alexander (1964). Russia at War, 1941–1945. London: Barrie & Rockliff.

United Kingdom[]

• Beaumont, Joan (1980). Comrades in Arms: British Aid to Russia, 1941−1945. London: Davis-Poynter.
• Beevor, J.G. (1981). SOE – Recollections and Reflections, 1940–1945. London: Bodley Head. — British intelligence (Special Operations Executive)
• Bennett, Ralph Francis (1980). Ultra in the West: the Normandy Campaign, 1944–45. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. — Bletchley Park
• Buchanan, Pat (2007). Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. New York: Crown.
• Calder, Angus (1971). The People's War: Britain, 1939–1945. London: Panther.
• Cato (1940). Guilty Men. London: V. Galancz. — anti-appeasement polemic
• Churchill, Sir Winston (1938). While England Slept. London: George G. Harrap. — anti-appeasement polemic
• Donnelly, Mark (1999). Britain in the Second World War. New York: Routledge.
• Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni (1980). Collar the Lot! How Britain Interned & Expelled its Wartime Refugees. Quartet Books.
• History of the Second World War. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1949–1993. — official history
• Hogg, Quintin (1945). The Left Was Never Right. London: Faber and Faber. — anti-appeasement polemic
• Kennedy, John F. (1940). Why England Slept. London: Hutchinson & Co. — appeasement
• Ponting, Clive (1990). 1940: Myth and Reality. London: Hamish Hamilton.
• Wood, Ian S. (2010). Societies at War: Britain, Ireland and the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

United States[]

• Adams, Ansel (1944). Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera. — photographic account of the internment of Japanese Americans
• Adams, Michael C.C. (1993). The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. — textbook
• Andrade, Dale (1996). Luzon: The United States Army Campaigns of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
• Baer, George W. (1994). One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890–1990. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Bentley, Amy (1998). Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
• Bernstein, Alison R. (1991). American Indians and World War II. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Binns, Stewart; Wood, Adrian (2001). America at War in Color: Unique Images of the American Experience of World War II. London: Carlton. ISBN 9781842223499. OCLC 47992974.
• Blum, John Morton (1976). V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace.
• Breitman, Richard; Goda, Norman J. W.; Naftali, Timothy; Wolfe, Robert (2005). U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511618178. ISBN 978-0-521-61794-9.
• Campbell, D'Ann. (1984). Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Clay, Blair, Jr. (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute.
• Cole, Wayne S. (1957). "American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal". Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 43 (4): 595–617. doi:10.2307/1902275. JSTOR 1902275.
• Cooke, Alistair (2006). The American Home Front, 1941–1942. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
• Crane, Conrad C. (1993). Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Dallek, Robert (1995). Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Doenecke, Justus D. (1979). "Beyond Polemics: An Historiographical Re-Appraisal of American Entry into World War II". History Teacher. 12 (2): 217–251. doi:10.2307/491983. JSTOR 491983.
• Doherty, Thomas (1993). Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Erenberg, Lewis A.; Hirsch, Susan E., eds. (1996). The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres.
• Greenfield, Kent R. (1979). American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
• Hassel, Agostino von; MacRae, Sigrid; Amerskamp, Simone (2006). Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II. New York: Thomas Dunne.
• Henderson, Aileen Kilgore (2001). Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.
• Herman, Arthur (2012). Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. New York: Random House.
• Holm, Jeanne M., ed. (1998). In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II. Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press.
• Jeffries, John W. (1996). Wartime America: The World War II Homefront. Chicago: I.R. Dee.
• Jones, John B. (2006). The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939–1945. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press.
• Kennedy, David M. (1999). Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
• Kennedy, Paul (2013). Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War.
• Kennedy, Thomas C. (1963). "Charles A. Beard and the "Court Historians"". Historian. 25 (4): 439–450. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1963.tb00227.x. JSTOR 24442426.
• Kennett, Lee (1987). G.I.: The American Soldier in World War II. New York: Schribner.
• Krammer, Arnold (1996). Nazi Prisoners of War in America. Lanham, Maryland: Scarborough House.
• Kühl, Stefan (2002). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Lily, J. Robert (2007). Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe in World War II. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Linderman, Gerald F. (1997). The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II. New York: Free Press.
• Litoff, Judy Barett; Smith, David C., eds. (1994). We're in this War Too: World War II Letters from Women in Uniform. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Malkin, Michelle (2004). In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing.
• Miller, Donald L. (2006). Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Minear, Richard H. (1996). Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. New York: New Press.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1947–1962). History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 15 volumes. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
• ——— (1963). The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
• Motley, Mary Penick (1975). The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldiers in World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University press.
• Okihiro, Gary Y. (1996). Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
• O'Neill, William L. (1993). A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. New York: Free Press.
• Province, Charles M. (1991). Patton's Third Army: A Chronicle of the Third Army Advance, August, 1944 to May, 1945. New York: Hippocrene Books.
• Rhodes, Richard (1986). The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster. - Manhattan Project
• Samuel, Lawrence R. (1996). Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Stoler, Mark A. (2000). 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.
• Terkel, Studs (1984). "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon.
• Roscoe, Theodore (1949). United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute.
• Wise, Nancy B.; Wise, Christy (1994). A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Wynn, Neil A. (1993). The Afro-American and the Second World War. New York: Holmes and Meier.

Yugoslavia[]

• Dedijer, Vladimir (1992). The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs During World War II. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
• Tolstoy, Nikolai (1986). The Minister and the Massacres. London: Hutchinson. — Bleiburg repatriations
• Tomasevich, Jozo (2001). War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Home Front[]

• Beck, Earl R. (1993). The European Home Fronts, 1939–1945. Harlan Davidson.
• Bohm-Duchen, Monica. (2014). Art and the Second World War. Princeton University Press.
• Costello, John (1985). Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939–1945. London: Collins. ISBN 9780002174442. OCLC 13121641.
• Geyer, Michael; Tooze, Adam, eds. (2017). Total War: Economy, Society and Culture. The Cambridge History of the Second World War. 3. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Harrison, Mark, ed. (2000). The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Higonnet, Margaret R.; Jenson, Jane; Michel, Sonya; Weitz, Margaret C., eds. (1987). Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Marwick, Arthur (1974). War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States.
• Mazower, Mark (2009). Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe.
• Milward, Alan (1977). War, Economy and Society.
• Noakes, Jeremy, ed. (1992). The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter.
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Nuremberg Trials[]

After World War II[]

• Applebaum, Anne (2012). Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York and London: Doubleday.
• Bacque, James (1997). Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944–1950. London: Warner Books.
• Beevor, Antony; Cooper, Artemis (1994). Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949. New York: Doubleday.
• Breitman, Richard; Goda, Norman J. W. (2010). Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
• Buruma, Ian (2013). Year Zero: A History of 1945. New York: Penguin.
• Conot, Robert E. (2000). Justice at Nuremberg. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers.
• Dallas, Gregor (2005). 1945: The War That Never Ended. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
• Douglas, R. M. (2012). Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Dower, John W (1999). Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
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• Gaddis, John Lewis (2006). The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Books.
• Gilbert, Felix; Large, David Clay (2002). The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Hitchcock, William I. (2004). The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945 to the Present. New York: Anchor.
• Jarausch, Konrad (2015). Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
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• Lowe, Keith (2012). Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. New York: Picador.
• Lukacs, John (2010). The Legacy of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• MacDonogh, Giles (2009). After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. New York: Basic Books.
• Mazower, Mark (2000). Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage.
• Naimark, Norman M. (1995). The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Plokhy, S. M. (2010). Yalta: The Price of Peace. New York: Penguin Books.
• Sheehan, James J. (2009). Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Mariner Books.
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Historiography and memory[]

• Bogumił, Zuzanna; Wawrzyniak, Joanna, eds. (2015). The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums. Berghahn Books.
• Gordon, Bertram M. (2018). War Tourism: Second World War France from Defeat and Occupation to the Creation of Heritage. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501715884. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctt21kk2bs. OCLC 1113502193.
• Lak, Martijn, ed. (2015). "Contemporary Historiography on the Eastern Front in World War II". The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. London: Routledge. 28 (3): 567–587. doi:10.1080/13518046.2015.1061828. ISSN 1556-3006. LCCN 93641610. OCLC 56751630. S2CID 142875289.
• Loyd, E. Lee, ed. (1997). World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29325-2. OCLC 179140735. — 525-page bibliographic guide
• ———, ed. (1998). World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research. Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313293269. OCLC 906754878.