Bibliography of World War II

This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

Overview

Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Beevor, Antony. The Second World War. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2012.
Bell, P. M. H. Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
Bess, Michael. Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. New York: Vintage, 2008.
Bigelow, Barbara C, and Christine Slovey. World War II: Primary Sources. Detroit: UXL, 2000.
Bishop, Chris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II. New York: Metro Books, 2002.
Burleigh, Michael. Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 2010.
Calvocoressi, Peter, and Guy Wint. Total War: The Story of World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1972.
Commager, Henry Steele. The Story of the Second World War. Washington DC: Brassey’s, 1991.
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948-1952 (6 vols)
Davies, Norman. No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945. New York: Penguin Books, 2008.
Dear, I.C.B., and M.R.D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Deighton, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: Harper Collins, 1993. - covers from World War I to Pearl Harbor
Ellis, John. Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: Viking, 1990.
Federal Republic of Germany, Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg. 13 vols. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1979–2008.
Gilbert, Martin. The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989.
Harrison, Mark. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hastings, Max. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. London: Harper Collins, 2001.
Hastings, Max. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939–1945. New York: Harper, 2016.
Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 2004.
Hogg, Ian V. Dictionary of World War II. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Publishing, 1996.
Ireland, Bernard, et al. Jane's Naval History of World War II. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
Keegan, John, ed. The Times Atlas of the Second World War. New York: Harper & Row, 1989
Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking, 1989.
Keegan, John. Who's Who In World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Kitchen, Martin. A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London: Longman, 1990.
Lyons, Michael J. World War II: A Short History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Mercer, Derrik, ed. Chronicle of the Second World War. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Group, 1990.
Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Milward, Alan. War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. London: Alan Lane, 1977.
Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
Nardo, Don. World War II. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2005.
Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.
Overy, Richard, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Parker, R. A. C. Second World War: A Short History. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks, 2002.
Parrish, Thomas, and S.L.A. Marshall. The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
Polmar, Norman and Thomas Allen. World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941–1945. New York: Random House, 1996.
Purnell's History of the Second World War. Paulton, Eng.: Purnell & Sons. - magazine series
Roberts, Andrew. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. New York: Harper Perennial, 2011.
Schreiber, Gerhard. Der Zweite Weltkrieg. München: Verlag C.H.Beck, 2003.
Snell, John L. Illusion and Necessity: The Diplomacy of Global War, 1939–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Snyder, Louis L. Historical Guide to World War II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War II. New York: Morrow, 1980.
Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961.
Tucker, Spencer, and Priscilla Mary Roberts, eds. World War II: A Student Encyclopedia. (5 vols.) Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005.
Waller, John H. The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 1996.
Ward, Geoffrey C., Ken Burns, and Lynn Novick. The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2007.
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Willmott, H.P. The Great Crusade. Dulles, VA.: Potomac Books Inc., 2008.
Wright, Gordon. The Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Young, Peter, and Richard Natk, eds. The Cassell Atlas of the Second World War. London: Cassell, 2000.

Theatres

European theatre

Addison, Paul and Angus Calder (eds.) Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939–1945. London: Pimlico, 1997.
Ahonen, Pertti, Jerzy Kochanowski, and Gustavo Corni. Occupation in Europe—People on the Move: Forced Population Movements in Europe in the Second World War and its Aftermath. London: Berg, 2008.
Axworthy, Mark, Cornel I. Scafes, and Cristian Crǎciuniou. Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941-1945. London: Arms and Armour, 1995.
Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin, 1945. New York: Penguin, 2002.
Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942. New York: Random House, 1996.
Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945. New York: Random House, 1998.
Bower, Tom. 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, 1997.
Burdick, Charles B. Germany’s Military Strategy and Spain in World War II. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1968.
Carlgren, W. M. Swedish Foreign Policy during the Second World War. Translated by Arthur Spencer. New York: St. Martin’s, 1977.
Carter, Carolle J. The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1977.
Cole, Hugh M. The Lorraine Campaign: The European Theater of Operations Series. Washington, D.C.: Department of the Army, 1950.
Cornelius, Deborah S. Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.
Corum, James S., Olaf Mertelsmann, and Kaarel Piirimaee, eds. The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Davies, Norman. Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory. London: Macmillan, 2006.
De Jong, Loe. The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II. Amsterdam: Dutch Institute for War Documentation, 1969-1991. (14 vols) - official history
Deletant, Dennis. Hitler’s Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Dimbleby, Jonathan. The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
DiNardo, Richard. Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Dreisziger, Nandor F., ed. Hungary and the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983.
Duggan, John P. Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 1985.
Dwyer, T. Ryle. Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutrality during World War II. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan, 2009.
Edwards, Robert. The Winter War: Russia's Invasion of Finland, 1939–1940. New York: Pegasus, 2008.
Fenyo, Mario D. Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972.
Fisk, Robert. In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
Gawne, Jonathan. Spearheading D-Day: American Special Units, 6 June 1944. New York: Casemate, 1998.
Giurescu, Dinu C. Romania in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2000.
Grier, Howard D. Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich’s Last Hope, 1944–1945. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2007.
Halbrook, Stephen. The Swiss and the Nazis. Philadelphia, PA: Casemate Pub, 2010.
Hapgood, David. Monte Cassino: The Story of the Most Controversial Battle of World War II. New York: Da Capo Press, 2002.
Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Kaufmann, J.E., and Robert M. Jurga. Fortress Europe, European Fortifications of World War II. London: Greenhill Books, 1999.
Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.
Kershaw, Ian. To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914–1949. New York: Viking, 2015.
Knox, MacGregor. Hitler’s Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Kreis, Georg, ed. Switzerland and the Second World War. London: Cass, 2000.
Krosby, H. Peter. Finland, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940–1941: The Petsamo Dispute. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
Leitz, Christian. Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Levine, Alan J. From the Normandy Beaches To The Baltic Sea: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944–1945. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.
Littlejohn, David. The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45. London: Heinemann, 1972.
Littlejohn, David. Foreign Legions of the Third Reich Vol. 1 Norway, Denmark, France. Bender Publishing, 1987.
Lukacs, John. Five Days in London, May 1940. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
Lunde, Henrik O. Finland’s War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II. Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2011.
Gilmour, John. Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh, GB: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Glantz, David M. Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Macartney, Carlile A. October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929–1945. 2 vols. Edinburgh: University Press, 1956–7.
Macdonald, Charles B. The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
Morgan, Philip. The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Murray, Williamson. The Change in the European Balance of Power 1938–1939. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
O'Hara, Vincent. Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
Payne, Stanley G. Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
Petrow, Richard. The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow, 1974.
Pike, David Wingeate. Franco and the Axis Stigma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Rachev, Stoyan. Anglo-Bulgarian Relations during the Second World War, 1939–1944. Translated by Stefan Kostov. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia, 1981.
Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45. London: Routledge, 2007.
Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Airborne Battle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh. Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Smith, Colin. England’s Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940–1942. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2009.
Statiev, Alexander. The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Tamkin, Nicholas. Britain, Turkey, and the Soviet Union, 1940–45: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Trotter, William R. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939–40. New York: Algonquin, 1991.
Thomas, R. T. Britain and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo-French Relations, 1940–42. New York: St. Martin’s, 1979.
Ungvary, Krisztian. The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005.
Van Dyke, Carl. The Soviet Invasion of Finland, 1939–40. London: Cass, 1997.
Vehviläinen, Olli. Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Vintras, Roland E. The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History of the Azores Base. London: Bachman and Turner, 1974.
Weber, Frank G. The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain, and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1979.
Weber, Ronald. The Lisbon Route: Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe. Lanham, MD: Ivan R. Dee, 2011.
Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaigns of France and Germany 1944–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Weiss, Kenneth G. The Azores in Diplomacy and Strategy, 1940–1945. Alexandria, VA: Institute of Naval Studies, Center for Naval Analysis, 1980.
Wilmot, Chester. The Struggle for Europe. New York: Harper, 1952.
Wiskemann, Elizabeth. The Rome-Berlin Axis. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1949.
Wylie, Neville, ed. European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Wylie, Neville. Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Invasion of Poland

Böhler, Jochen. Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg: Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939 [Prelude to the War of Extermination: The Wehrmacht in Poland, 1939]. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006.
Rossino, Alexander B. Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Zaloga, Steven, and Victory Madej. The Polish Campaign, 1939. New York: Hippocrene, 1991.

Invasions of France and the Low Countries

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

Battle of Britain

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

Balkan Campaign

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

East African Campaign

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

North African Campaign

Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2002.
Levine, Alan J. The War Against Rommel’s Supply Lines, 1942–1943. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999.

German-Soviet war (1941−45)

Barber, John, and A. R. Dzeniskevich, eds. Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941–1944. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2005.
Bartov, Omer. The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. London: Viking, 1998.
Bergstrom, Christer. Kursk: The Air Battle, July 1943. Hersham, UK: Classic Publications, 2007.
Boog, Horst, et al., eds. Germany and the Second World War. (Vol. 4 - The Attack on the Soviet Union). Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
Boog, Horst, et al., eds. Germany and the Second World War. (Vol. 6 - The Global War). Oxford: Clarendon, 2001.
Citino, Robert M. Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Craig, William. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. New York: Penguin Books, 1973.
Dibold, Hans. Doctor at Stalingrad. Littleton, CO: Aberdeen Publishing, 2001.
Duffy, Christopher. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. New York: Da Capo Press, 1993.
Dunn, Walter S. Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000.
Einsiedel, Heinrich Graf von, and Joachim Wieder. Stalingrad: Memories and Reassessments. New York: Sterling Publishing, 1998.
Erickson, John. The Road to Stalingrad: Stalin's War with Germany (Vol. 1). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1984.
Forczyk, Robert. Panther vs. T-34: Ukraine 1943. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2007.
Forczyk, Robert. Leningrad 1941–44: The Epic Siege. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009.
Fritz, Stephen G. Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Fritz, Stephen G. Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. The Battle of Kursk. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Glantz, David M. The Battle for Leningrad, 1941–1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet—German Combat Operations April to August 1942. Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Glantz, David M. and Jonathan House. Armageddon in Stalingrad: September to November 1942. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Glantz, David M. After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942–1943. Oxford: Helion and Company, 2011.
Hartmann, Christian. Operation Barbarossa: Germany’s War in the East, 1941–1945. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Hayward, Joel. Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942–1943. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Healy, Mark. Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4–17 July 1943. The History Press, 2008.
Hellbeck, Jochen. Stalingrad: The City That Defeated The Third Reich. New York: PublicAffairs, 2015.
Jones, Michael K. Stalingrad: How the Red Army Survived the German Onslaught. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate, 2007.
Kehrig, Manfred. Stalingrad. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags Anstalt, 1974.
Mawdsley, Evan. Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005.
Megargee, Geoffrey P. War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 2006.
Müller, Rolf-Dieter and Gerd R. Ueberschär. Hitler’s War in the East, 1941–1945: A Critical Assessment. Oxford: Berghahn, 1997.
Niepold, Gerd. Battle for White Russia: The Destruction of Army Group Center, June 1944. London: Brassey’s Defense Publishers, 1987.
Raus, Erhard. Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941–1945. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Reid, Anna. Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941–1944. New York: Walker & Co., 2012.
Reinhardt, Klaus. Moscow: The Turning Point. Oxford: Berg, 1992.
Roberts, Geoffrey. Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History. New York: Longman, 2002.
Salisbury, Harrison E. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad. London: Pan, 1969.
Seaton, Albert. The Russo-German War, 1941–1945. London: Arthur Barker, 1971.
Stahel, David. Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Stahel, David. Kiev 1941: Hitler’s Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Zetterling, Niklas, and Anders Frankson. Kursk 1943: A Statistical Analysis. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
Ziemke, Earl F. Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, 1968.
Ziemke, Earl F., and Magna E. Bauer. Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1987

Italian Campaign

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

Operation Bodyguard

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

Liberation of Europe

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

Operation Bagration

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

Battle of Berlin

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

Pacific theatre

Agawa, Hiroyuki. The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy. New York: Kodansha American Inc., 1979.
Aldrich, Richard J. 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, 1993.
Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War, 1941–45. London: Phoenix, 2002.
Bell, Roger J. Unequal Allies: Australian–American Relations and the Pacific War. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1977.
Bergerud, Eric M. Touched With Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.
Blair, Clay. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. New York: J.P. Lippincott Company, 1975.
Bradley, John H., Jack W. Dice, Thomas B. Buell, and Thomas E. Griess. The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific Wayne, N.J: Avery Publishing Group, 1992.
Campbell, John. Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
Carpenter, Dorr, and Norman Polmar. Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986.
Costello, John. The Pacific War, 1941–1945. New York: Quill, 1982.
Cutler, Thomas J. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23–26 October 1944. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
Drea, Edward J. Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.
Dunnigan, James. The Pacific War Encyclopedia. New York: Checkmark Books, 1998.
Francillon, Robert. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979.
Gamble, Bruce. Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942–April 1943. New York: Zenith Press, 2010.
Hastings, Max. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45. London: HarperCollins, 2007.
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.
Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War: 1931–45. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
Inoguchi Rikihei, Nakajima Tadashi, and Roger Pineau. The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books, 1958.
Iriye, Akira. The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. New York and London: Longman, 1987.
Lyman, Robert. Japan’s Last Bid for Victory: The Invasion of India, 1944. Barnsley, UK: Praetorian, 2011.
Maga, Timothy P. Judgment at Tokyo: The Japanese War Crimes Trials. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Marston, Daniel, ed. The Pacific War: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Oxford: Osprey, 2010.
McNalty, Bernard. War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. New York: Mayflower, 1978.
Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Paine, S.C.M. The Wars for Asia 1911-1949. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.
Rottman, Gordon L. U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War With Japan. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
Thompson, Robert S. Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Thorne, Christopher. The Far Eastern War: States and Societies, 1941–45. London: Unwin, 1986.
Willmott, H. P. The Second World War in the Far East. London: Cassell, 1999.
Woolridge, E.T., ed. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Beekman, Allan. Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: Heritage Press, 1992.
Goldstein, Donald M., and Katherine V. Dillon, eds. The Pearl Harbor Papers: Inside the Japanese Plans. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1993.
Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept. McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Prange, Gordon W. Dec. 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Zimm, Alan D. Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. Philadelphia and Newbury: Casemate Publishers, 2011.

Battle of Midway

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

Guadalcanal Campaign

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

Operation Hailstone

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

Battle of Iwo Jima

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

Battle of Okinawa

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

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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

Strategic bombing

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

Biographies or autobiographies

Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
Alanbrooke, Field Marshal Lord. War Diaries, 1939–1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke. Edited by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001.
Altner, Helmut. Berlin: Dance of Death. Translated by Tony Le Tissier. Havertown, Penn.: Casemate, 2002. - memoir
Ambrose, Stephen. Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne: From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Ambrose, Stephen. The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys - The Men of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Ambrose, Stephen. The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys who Flew the B-24s Over Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin. London: Virago, 2005. - diary
Baudouin, Paul. Private Diaries: March 1940-January 1941. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948.
Barrett, Duncan and Nuala Calvi. GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love. London: Harper Collins, 2003.
Beauvoir, Simone de. La Force des Choses [The Force of Things]. Paris: Gallimard, 1963.
Beevor, Antony, and Lyuba Vinogradova (eds.) A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005.
Below, Nicolaus von. Als Hitler's Adjutant, 1937-194 [At Hitler's Side: The Memoirs of Hitler's Luftwaffe Adjutant, 1937-1945]. Mainz: Hase & Koehler, 1980.
Berezkhov, Valentin. 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, 1994.
Berezkhov, Valentin. History in the Making: Memoirs of World War II Diplomacy. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983.
Beria, Sergo. Beria my Father: Inside Stalin's Kremlin. London: Duckworth, 2001.
Bezborodova, Irina, and Hermione Prügger. Generäle des Dritten Reich in sowjetischer Hand [Generals of the Third Reich in Soviet Hands]. Graz: Selbstverlag des Vereins zur Förderung der Forschung von Folgen nach Konflikten und Kriegen, 1998.
Bidault, Georges. D'une résistance a l'autre [Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault]. Paris: Les Presses du Siécle, 1965.
Bird, Keith. Erich Raeder: Admiral of the Third Reich. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Blum, John Morton. Roosevelt and Morgenthau: A Revision and Condensation of From the Morgenthau Diaries. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Böll, Heinrich. Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 [Letters from the War 1939-1945]. Cologne: Kiepenhauer & Witsch, 2001.
Bradley, Omar N. A Soldier’s Story. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1951.
Brissaud, Andre. Canaris: The Biography of Admiral Canaris, Chief of German Military Intelligence in the Second World War. Translated and edited by Ian Colvin. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974.
Bruckner, Karl. The Day of the Bomb. Van Nostrand, 1962. - biography of Sadako Sasaki
Calvert, James F. Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
Chaney, Otto Preston, Jr. Zhukov. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
Ciano, Count Galeazzo. Ciano’s Hidden Diary, 1937–1938. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1945
Clark, Andrew. A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2003.
de Gaulle, Charles. War Memoirs. Vol. 1, The Call to Honor 1940–1942. Translated by Jonathan Griffin. New York: Viking, 1955.
Donovan, Robert J. PT-109: John F. Kennedy in WW II, 40th Anniversary Edition, McGraw Hill, 2001.
Duffy, Peter. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews. New York: Harper Perennial, 2004. - Belarusians who resisted the Nazis
Fest, Joachim C. Hitler. Orlando, FL.: Harcourt, 2002.
Fraser, David. Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. New York: Harper, 1995.
Funk, Arthur L. Charles de Gaulle: The Crucial Years, 1943–1944. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959.
Gerwarth, Robert. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich. New Haven, CT.: Yale University Press, 2011.
Gilbert Martin. Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1939–1941. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1983.
Gilbert Martin. Road to Victory: Winston S. Churchill 1941–1945. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1986.
Guderian, Heinz. Panzer Leader. Translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952.
Halder, Franz. War Journal of Franz Halder. (vols. 1–8). United States: A.G. EUCOM, 1947.
Halsey, William F., Jr., and J. Bryan, III. Admiral Halsey’s Story. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947.
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
Joachimsthaler, Anton. The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth. Brockhampton Press, 1999.
Johnson, Gudrun and Johan Gardner. Våre falne 1939-1945, ed. Arne Ording. Oslo: Norwegian Government, 1949-1951. (4 vols) - biographical dictionary
Jordan, Jonathan W. American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II. New York: NAL Caliber, 2015.
Jordan, Jonathan W.. Brothers, Rivals, Victors: Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, and the Partnership that Drove the Allied Conquest in Europe. New York: NAL Caliber, 2011.
Jungk, Robert. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. San Diego: Harcourt, 1958.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1889–1936, Hubris. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: 1936–1945, Nemesis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler: A Biography. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
Kirsch, Jonathan. The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013.
Koerner, Brendan I. Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II. New York: Penguin, 2008. - biography of Herman Perry
Khrushchev, Nikita S. Khrushchev Remembers. Translated and edited by Strobe Talbott. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970.
Longerich, Peter. Heinrich Himmler: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Longerich, Peter. Goebbels: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2015.
MacArthur, Douglas. Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978.
McNeal, Robert H. Stalin: Man and Ruler. New York: New York University Press, 1988.
Moore, Gary W. Playing With the Enemy. New York: Penguin, 2006. - biography of baseball player Gene Moore
Nagai, Takashi. The Bells of Nagasaki. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1949. - memoir of survivor of atomic bombings of Nagasaki
Patton, George S. War as I Knew It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
Patton, George S. The Patton Papers. Martin Blumenson (ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972-1974.
Polansky, Paul. Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak. Self-published, 1998. - Romanis who lived in the Lety concentration camp
Pogue, Forrest C. George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943–1945. New York: Viking, 1973.
Pownall, Sir Henry. The Diaries of Sir Henry Pownall. Brian Bond (ed.). London: Leo Cooper, 1972.
Ranković, Aleksandar. Traitor Draža Mihailović: In the Hands of the Authority of People's Power. Svoboda, 1947.
Rees, Laurence. Their Darkest Hour: People Tested to the Extreme in WWII. London: Ebury, 2008.
Reid, Warren R., ed. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S Truman, 1945. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961.
Sereny, Gitta. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
Spears, Sir Edward. Assignment to Catastrophe. London: Heinemann, 1954. - memoir of British ambassador to France
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Suvorov, Viktor. Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990. - alleges Stalin manipulated Hitler into starting the war
Uchida, Yoshiko. The Invisible Thread. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Beech Tree Books, 1995. - memoir of the internment of Japanese Americans
Wagner, Stephen and Sharon Wells Wagner. Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories of World War II. Booksurge, 2008. - collection of reminiscences from veterans
Weigley, Russell. Eisenhower's Lieutenants. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1974.
Wilson, Hugh, ed. The Ciano Diaries: 1939–1943. New York: Doubleday, 1946.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Adolf Hitler

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Pope Pius XII

Harry S. Truman

Holocaust

Occupational policies of Nazi Germany

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

Regional

Allen, Louis. Singapore 1941–1942. Wilmington: University of Delaware Press, 1977.
Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R. The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Boca, Angelo Del. The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by P. D. Cummins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969.
Deringil, Selim. Turkish Foreign Policy during the Second World War: An “Active” Neutrality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Engen, Robert. Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Montreal: MQUP, 2009.
Evans, Mark L. Great World War II Battles in the Arctic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.
Francis, Michael J. The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1977.
Frank, Gary. Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami, FL: University of Miami Press, 1979.
Goda, Norman J. W. Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
Hirszowicz, Lukasz. The Third Reich and the Arab East. London: Routledge, 1966.
Jellison, Charles A. Besieged: The World War II Ordeal of Malta, 1940–1942. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1985.
Kippenberger, Howard and Monty C. Fairbrother (eds.) Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45. Wellington: War History Branch, 1949-1986. (48 vols) - official history
Long, Gavin (ed.). Australia in the War of 1939-1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1952-1977. (22 vols) - official history
Mallmann, Klaus-Michael, and Martin Cüppers. Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Translated by Krista Smith. New York: Enigma, 2010.
Mann, Chris, and Christer Jorgensen. Arctic War. New York: St. Martins Press, 2003.
McCann, Frank D., Jr. The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Moorhead, Alan, and John Keegan. Desert War: The North African Campaign, 1940–1943. New York: Penguin, 2001.
Morison, Samuel Eliot. Operations in North African Waters: October 1942–June 1943. New York: Book Sales, Inc., 2001.
Motadel, David. Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2014.
Newton, Ronald C. The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931–1947. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992.
Reynolds, E. Bruce. Thailand’s Secret War: The Free Thais, OSS, and SOE during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Sharfman, Daphna. Palestine in the Second World War: Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2014.
Woodman, Richard. Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. London: John Murray Publications Ltd., 1996.
Zweig, Ronald W. Britain and Palestine during the Second World War. New York: St. Martin’s, 1986.

China

Brook, Timothy. Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005.
Hsiung, James C., and, Steven I. Levine. China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937–1945. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992.
Liu, Xiaoyuan. 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, 1996.
Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Peattie, Mark, Edward Drea, and Hans Van De Ven, eds. The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.
Plating, John D. The Hump: America’s Strategy for Keeping China in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Sih, Paul K.T., ed. Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1977.
Smedley, Agnes. Battle Hymn of China. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. - journalistic account of the Sino-Japanese War
Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Tuchman, Barbara. Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911–1945. New York: Bantam, 1972.
Wen Ha-hsiung. History of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Tapei: Chung Wu Publishing Co., 1971.
Yamaguchi, Noburu. "An Unexpected Encounter with Hybrid Warfare: The Japanese Experience in North China, 1937–1945." In Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present, edited by Williamson Murray and Peter R. Mansoor. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

France

Amouroux, Henri. La Grande Histoire des Français sous l’Occupation. [The Grand History of the French Under Occupation]. Paris: R. Laffont, 1976-1993. (10 vols)
Aron, Robert. France Reborn: The History of the Liberation, June 1944-May 1945. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1964.
Davies, Peter. France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance. London: Routledge, 2001.
King, David. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris. New York: Crown, 2011.

Germany

Japan

Bradley, James. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003.
Cohen, Jerome B. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949.
Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore F. Cook, eds. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992.
Deacon, Richard. A History of the Japanese Secret Service. London: Fredrick Muller, 1982.
Forbes, Cameron. Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War. Sydney: Pan MacMillan Australia, 2005.
Hayashi, Saburo and Alvin D. Coox. Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Ienaga, Saburō. The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon, 1978.
Lukacs, John D. Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War. New York: Penguin, 2010.
Newman, Joseph. Goodbye Japan. New York: L.B. Fischer, 1942. - anti-Japanese propaganda
Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Norway

Derry, T. K. The Campaign in Norway. London, H.M. Stationary Off., 1952.
Heimark, Brice. The OSS Norwegian Special Operations Group in World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.
Lunde, Henrik. Hitler's Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate, 2009.
Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, 1946. - Grini detention camp
Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945. Oslo: J.W. Cappelens, 1995. - encyclopedia

Poland

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

Soviet Union

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

United Kingdom

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

United States

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

Yugoslavia

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

Post-war

Applebaum, Anne. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956. New York and London: Doubleday, 2012.
Bacque, James. Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians under Allied Occupation, 1944–1950. London: Warner Books, 1997.
Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Beevor, Antony, Artemis Cooper. Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Buruma, Ian. Year Zero: A History of 1945. New York: Penguin, 2013.
Conot, Robert E. Justice at Nuremberg. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000.
Dallas, Gregor. 1945: The War That Never Ended. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005.
Douglas, R. M. Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012.
Dower, John W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1999.
Gaddis, John Lewis. The Cold War: A New History. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Gilbert, Felix, and David Clay Large. The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2002.
Hitchcock, William I. The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945 to the Present. New York: Anchor, 2004.
Judt, Tony. Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Lafeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1966. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1967.
Lowe Keith. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. New York: Picador, 2012.
Lukacs, John. The Legacy of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010.
MacDonogh, Giles. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. New York: Basic Books, 2009.
Mazower, Mark. Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Naimark, Norman M. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945–1949. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Plokhy, S. M. Yalta: The Price of Peace. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.
Sheehan, James J. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?: The Transformation of Modern Europe. Boston: Mariner Books, 2009.
Tolstoy, Nikolai. Victims of Yalta. London: Corgi Books, 1977. - post-war repatriation of Soviet citizens
Walker, Martin. The Cold War: A History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995.
Weinberg, Gerhard, ed. Transformation of a Continent: Europe in the Twentieth-Century. Minneapolis, MN: Burgess Publishing Company, 1975.
Young, John W. Cold War Europe, 1945–89: A Political History. London: Arnold, 1991.
Zayas, Alfred-Maurice de. A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans, 1944–1950. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Nuremberg Trials

World War II

Participants

Allies (leaders)	Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Ethiopia France Free France (from June 1940) Greece India Italy (from September 1943) Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines (Commonwealth) Poland South Africa Southern Rhodesia Soviet Union United Kingdom United States Puerto Rico Yugoslavia
Axis and Axis-aligned (leaders)	Albania Bulgaria Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China Independent State of Croatia Finland Germany Hungary Free India Iraq Italy (until September 1943) Italian Social Republic Japan Manchukuo Philippines (Second Republic) Romania Slovakia Thailand Vichy France Armed neutrality
Resistance	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech lands Denmark Estonia Ethiopia France Germany Greece Hong Kong Italy Japan Jewish Korea Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaya Netherlands Northeast China Norway Philippines Poland Anti-communist Romania Thailand Soviet Union Slovakia Western Ukraine Vietnam Yugoslavia Monarchists

Timeline

Prelude	Africa Asia Europe
1939	Poland Phoney War Winter War Atlantic Changsha China
1940	Weserübung Netherlands Belgium France Armistice of 22 June 1940 Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland North China Baltic States Moldova Indochina Greece Compass
1941	East Africa Yugoslavia Shanggao Greece Crete Iraq Soviet Union (Barbarossa) Finland Lithuania Syria and Lebanon Kiev Iran Leningrad Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor The outbreak of the Pacific War Hong Kong Philippines Changsha Malaya Borneo (1941–42)
1942	Burma Changsha Java Sea Coral Sea Gazala Dutch Harbor Attu (occupation) Kiska Zhejiang-Jiangxi Midway Rzhev Blue Stalingrad Singapore Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch
1943	Tunisia Kursk Smolensk Solomon Islands Attu Sicily Cottage Lower Dnieper Italy Armistice of Cassibile Gilbert and Marshall Islands Burma Northern Burma and Western Yunnan Changde
1944	Monte Cassino / Shingle Narva Korsun–Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Normandy Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Belgrade Paris Dragoon Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Hungary Leyte Ardennes Bodenplatte Philippines (1944–1945) Burma (1944–45)
1945	Vistula–Oder Iwo Jima Western invasion of Germany Okinawa Italy (Spring 1945) Borneo Syrmian Front Berlin Czechoslovakia Budapest West Hunan Guangxi Surrender of Germany Project Hula Manchuria Manila Borneo Taipei Atomic bombings Debate Kuril Islands Shumshu Surrender of Japan End of World War II in Asia

Aspects

General

Famines	Bengal famine of 1943 Chinese famine of 1942–43 Greek Famine of 1941-1944 Vietnamese Famine of 1945
Air warfare of World War II Blitzkrieg Comparative military ranks Cryptography Diplomacy Home front United States Australian United Kingdom Lend-Lease Manhattan Project Military awards Military equipment Military production Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Allied cooperation Total war Strategic bombing Puppet states Women Art and World War II

Aftermath

War crimes

Allied war crimes
German (Forced labour) / Wehrmacht war crimes
Italian war crimes
Japanese war crimes
- Unit 731
- Prosecution
Croatian war crimes
- against the Serbs
- against the Jews

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