World War 2 Reading List
The World War 2 Reading List has been compiled to identify the best books on world war two. Major campaigns, battles, units, and personalities.
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The Final Campaign in Western Europe The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 by Rick Atkinson examines the final campaigns of World War II in Western Europe. As the third volume of the Liberation Trilogy, the book follows the Allied advance […]
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The Life and Work of General Andrew J. Goodpaster: Best Practices in National Security Affairs
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The Life and Leadership of Andrew J. Goodpaster The Life and Work of General Andrew J. Goodpaster: Best Practices in National Security Affairs by C. Richard Nelson examines the life and career of one of America’s most influential military leaders and national security advisers. Goodpaster […]
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Pearl Harbor and the Failures of Intelligence And I Was There: Pearl Harbor and Midway—Breaking the Secrets by Edwin T. Layton, with Roger Pineau and John Costello, offers a firsthand account of two defining events in the Pacific War. Layton served as a senior intelligence […]
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The Story of D-Day and the Normandy Landings The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan is a classic history of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Drawing on extensive interviews, official military records, personal diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts from Allied and German […]
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The Italian Way of War: A Short History From Garibaldi To Operation Husky 1866-1943
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The Evolution of Italian Warfare The Italian Way of War: From the First Rome to Operation Enduring Freedom by Marco Rossi examines the development of Italian military thought and warfare across more than two thousand years of history. Drawing on historical research, military records, and […]
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Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul
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The Allied Air Campaign Against Rabaul Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul by Michael Claringbould examines the Allied air campaign against the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul during World War II. Drawing on official records, combat reports, squadron diaries, and firsthand […]
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“Where The Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44” by Robert Forczyk is an in-depth examination of the intense battles that took place on the Crimean Peninsula during World War II. The book provides a detailed account of the military campaigns that unfolded between 1941 and […]
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Battle Cry is a fictional novel set during World War II, focusing on the experiences of a group of U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater. The book follows the 6th Marine Regiment as they train, deploy, and fight through some of the war’s most challenging […]
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The true, first-person account of a captured World War II soldiers incredible escape and courageous journey home, discovered after more than fifty years. Of all the heroic stories to come out of World War II, few are so extraordinary as that of Major Rocky Gause, […]
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This book approaches the war from a thematic and periodic standpoint. The course of the war is divided into six passages and attached to each is an analytical narrative of a battle, which exemplifies a mode of warfare special to this war, such as city […]
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On April 18, 1942, 16 B-25s launched from the carrier Hornet, under the command of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, flew 650 miles to Japan, dropped their bombs on Tokyo and other targets, and escaped to China and neutral Soviet territory. Although a very small affair […]
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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“No Ordinary Time” is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines– Eleanor and […]
