Books and memoirsAddison, Paul and Crang, Jeremy A. (eds.), The Burning Blue: A New History of the Battle of Britain (London, 2000).
Addison, Paul and Crang, Jeremy A. (eds.), Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 (London, 2006).
Adelam, Johnathan R. (ed.), Hitler and his Allies in World War II (New York, 2007).
Aldrich, Richard J., Intelligence and the War against Japan: Britain, America and the Politics of the Secret Service (Cambridge, 2000).
Amadio, Jill, Gunter Rall: Luftwaffe Ace and NATO General: The Authorized Biography (Santa Ana, CA, 2002).
Arnold, Joerg, Allied Air War and Urban Memory: The Legacy of the Strategic Bombing in Germany (Cambridge, 2011).
Astor, Gerald, The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men who Fought it (New York, 1997).
Atkinson, Rick, An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942–43 (New York, 2002).
Baer, George, One Hundred Years of Seapower: The United States Navy 1890–1990 (Stanford, 1994).
Barnett, Correlli, Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (London, 1991).
Barnhart, Michael A., Japan Prepares for War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941 (Ithaca, 1987).
Baxter, Christopher, The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944–50: Britain, America and Post-War Rivalry (Basingstoke, 2009).
Beevor, Antony, The Second World War (New York, 2012).
Bekker, Cajus, Hitler’s Naval War, trans. Ziegler, Frank (London, 1974).
von Below, Nicolaus, At Hitler’s Side: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Luftwaffe Adjutant 1937–1945 (London, 2004).
Bergstrom, Christopher, Bagration to Berlin: The Final Air Battles in the East (Hersham, Surrey, 2008).
Bessel, Richard, Nazism and War (London, 2004).
Best, Antony (ed.), Imperial Japan and the World, 1931–1945 (London, 2011).
Bickers, Richard Townsend, Air War Normandy (London, 1994).
Biddle, Tami Davis, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing (Princeton, 2002).
Blair, Clay, Silent Victory: The US Submarine War against Japan (Philadelphia, 1975).
Boog, Horst (ed.), The Conduct of the Air War in the Second World War (New York, 1992).
Borg, Dorothy and Okamoto, Shumpei (eds.), Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese–American Relations 1931–1941 (New York, 1973).
Brinkley, Douglas and Facey-Crowther, David, The Atlantic Charter (London, 1994).
Brower, Charles F., Defeating Japan: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in the Pacific War, 1939–1945 (New York, 2012).
Brown, Louis, A Radar History of World War II: Technical and Military Imperatives (Philadelphia, 1999).
Buckley, John, Air Power in the Age of Total War (Bloomington, IN, 1999).
Buckley, John, British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 (London, 2004).
Buell, Thomas B., Master of Sea Power: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King (Annapolis, MD, 1980).
Bungay, Stephen, The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain (London, 2000).
Burleigh, Michael, Moral Combat: A History of World War Two (London, 2010)
Burleigh, Michael, The Third Reich: A New History (London, 2000).
Caldwell, Donald, Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich: A War Diary 1942–45 (Barnsley, 2011).
Caldwell, Donald and Muller, Richard, The Luftwaffe over Germany: The Defence of the Reich (London, 2007).
Calvocoressi, Peter, Wint, Guy and Pritchard, John, Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War (London, 1995).
Campion, Garry, The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and the Few (London, 2010).
Cashman, Sean Dennis, America, Roosevelt and World War II (New York, 1989).
Chalmers, W. S., Max Horton and the Western Approaches (London, 1954).
Chapman, Guy, Why France Collapsed (London, 1968).
Chickering, Roger, Foerster, Stig and Greiner, Bernd (eds.), A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945 (Cambridge, 2005).
Churchill, Winston, The Second World War, vols. I–VI (London, 1948–53).
Citino, Robert, Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Lawrence, KS, 2007).
Citino, Robert, The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War (Lawrence, KS, 2012).
Cohen, Jerome B., Japanese Economic History 1930–1960 (London, 2000).
Cook, Haruko Taya and Cook, Theodore F., Japan at War: An Oral History (New York, 1992).
Corrigan, Gordon, The Second World War: A Military History (London, 2010).
Costigliola, Frank, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Shape the Cold War (Princeton, 2012).
Crane, Conrad C., American Airpower Strategy in World War II (Lawrence, KS, 1993).
Cray, Ed, General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (New York, 1990).
Dallek, Robert, Franklin Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932–45 (New York, 1995).
Danchev, Alex, Very Special Relationship: Field Marshal Sir John Dill and the Anglo-American Alliance, 1941–44 (London, 1986).
Daso, Dik, Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower (Washington, DC, 2000).
Davis, Richard G., Carl A. Spaatz and the Air War in Europe (Washington, DC, 1993).
DiNardo, Richard L., Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse (Lawrence, KS, 2005).
DiNardo, Richard L., Germany’s Panzer Arm (Westport, CT, 1997).
Doenecke, Justus D., Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939–1941 (New York, 2003).
Doenitz, Karl, Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days (London, 1990).
Douhet, Giulio, The Command of the Air (1921) (republished in English translation in Jablonsky (ed.), The Roots of Strategy).
Dower, John, War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (New York, 1986).
Drea, Edward, Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945 (Lawrence, KS, 2009).
Dunn, Walter Scott, Second Front Now, 1943 (Birmingham, 1980).
Edgerton, David, Britain’s War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War (London, 2012).
Edgerton, David, Warfare State: Britain, 1920–1970 (Cambridge, 2005).
Edgerton, Robert, Warriors of the Rising Sun (New York, 1997).
Edoin, Hoito, The Night Tokyo Burned (New York, 1987).
Ehlers, Robert S., Targeting the Third Reich: Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns (Lawrence, KS, 2009).
Eichelberger, R. L., Jungle Road to Tokyo (London, 1951).
Eisenhower, John S. D., The Bitter Woods: The Battle of the Bulge (Edinburgh, 2001).
Ellis, John, Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War (New York 1990).
Ellis, John, The World War II Databook (London, 1993).
Evans, David (ed.), The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers (Annapolis, MD, 1986).
Evans, Richard J., The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster (London, 2008).
Feis, Herbert, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought (Princeton, 1957).
Feis, Herbert, The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War between the United States and Japan (Princeton, 1950).
Fest, Joachim, Albert Speer: Conversations with Hitler’s Architect (Cambridge, 2007).
Fest, Joachim, Speer: The Final Verdict (London, 1999).
Francis, Martin, The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939–1945 (Oxford, 2008).
Frank, Richard B., Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (New York, 2001).
Frank, Richard B., Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle (London, 1992).
Franklin, George, Britain’s Anti-Submarine Capability 1919–1939 (London, 2003).
Fraser, David, Alanbrooke (London, 1997).
French, David, Raising Churchill’s Army: The British Army and the War against Germany 1919–1945 (Oxford, 2000).
Friedrich, Joerg, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany 1940–1945 (New York, 2006).
Fritz, Stephen G., Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians and the Death of the Third Reich (Lexington, KY, 2004).
Gardner, W. J. R., Decoding History: The Battle of the Atlantic and Ultra (London, 1999).
Garrett, Stephen A., Ethics and Air Power in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities (New York, 1993).
Gentile, Gian, How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo (New York, 2001).
Gilbert, Martin, Winston S. Churchill, vols. VI and VII (London, 1986).
Glantz, David, Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943 (Lawrence, KS, 2005).
Glantz, David and House, Johnathan, The Battle of Kursk (Lawrence, KS, 1999).
Glantz, David and House, Johnathan, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler (Lawrence, KS, 1995).
Gooderson, Ian, Air Power at the Battlefront: Allied Air Close Support in Europe 1943–1954 (London, 1998).
Grayling, A. C., Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime? (London, 2006).
Gregor, Neil, Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (New Haven, 1998).
Gretton, Peter, Crisis Convoy: The Story of HX 231 (London, 1974).
Griehl, Manfred and Dressel, Joachim, Heinkel, HE 177, 277, 274 (Shrewsbury, 1998).
Grier, Howard D., Hitler, Dönitz and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich’s Last Hope (Annapolis, MD, 2007).
Grunden, Walter E., Secret Weapons and World War II: Japan in the Shadow of Big Science (Lawrence, KS, 2005).
Haarr, Geirr H., The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940 (Barnsley, 2009).
Hall, David Ian, Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919–1943 (London, 2008).
Hansen, Randall, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany 1942–1945 (New York, 2009).
Hardesty, Von and Grinberg, Ilya, Red Phoenix Rising: The Soviet Air Force in World War II (Lawrence, KS, 2012).
Harris, Arthur, Bomber Offensive (London, 1947).
Harrison, Mark (ed.), The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Competition (Cambridge, 1998).
Hart, Russell, Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy (Boulder, CO, 2001).
Hartcup, Guy, The Effects of Science on the Second World War (New York, 2000).
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi, The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals (Stanford, 2005).
Hastings, Max, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War: 1939–45 (London, 2011).
Hastings, Max, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944–45 (London, 2005).
Hastings, Max, Bomber Command (London, 1979).
Havens, Thomas R., Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two (New York, 1978),
Hayward, Joel S., Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler’s Defeat in the East, 1942–1943 (Lawrence, KS, 1998).
Heinrichs, Waldo, Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry to World War II (Oxford, 1988).
Herbert, Ulrich, Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich (Cambridge, 1997).
Herman, Arthur, Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II (New York, 2012).
Higham, Robert, Unflinching Zeal: The Air Battles over France and Britain, May–October 1940 (Annapolis, MD, 2012).
Holzimmer, Kevin, General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War (Lawrence, KS, 2007).
Home, Thomas C., Friedman, Norman and Mandeles, Mark D., American and British Aircraft Development 1919–1939 (Annapolis, MD, 1999).
Horne, Alistair, To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (London, 1969).
Hurstfield, J., The Control of Raw Materials (London, 1953).
Howarth, Stephen and Law, Derek (eds.), The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1945: The 50th Anniversary International Naval Conference (Annapolis, MD, 1994).
Hoyt, Edwin P., How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and his Admirals (New York, 1970).
Ienaga, Saburo, Japan’s Last War: World War II and the Japanese (Oxford, 1979).
Imlay, Talbot, Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics and Economics in Britain and France, 1938–1940 (Oxford, 2003).
Iriye, Akira, Power and Culture: The Japanese – American War 1941–1945 (Cambridge, MA, 1981).
Isby, David, Fighting the Bombers: The Luftwaffe’s Struggle against the Allied Bomber Offensive (London, 2003).
Isby, David (ed.), The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea, 1939–1945 (London, 2005).
Jablonsky, David (ed.), The Roots of Strategy: Book 4 (Mechanicsburg, PA, 1999).
Jackson, Julian, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Oxford, 2003).
James, D. Clayton, The Years of MacArthur, vol. II (Boston, 1975).
James, Harold, The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank (Cambridge, 2004).
Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II (London, 1989).
Jarymowycz, Roman J., Tank Tactics: From Normandy to Lorraine (Boulder, CO, 2001).
Jones, Ben (ed.), The Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War, vol. I (Farnham, Surrey, 2012).
Kakehashi, Kumiko, Letters from Iwo Jima (London, 2007).
Keegan, John, World War II (London, 1989).
Kennedy, Paul, Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War (London, 2013).
Kennedy, Paul, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (New York, 1988).
Kershaw, Ian, The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944–45 (London, 2011).
Kimball, Warren, Forged in War: Churchill, Roosevelt and the Second World War (London, 1997).
Kimball, Warren, The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (Princeton, 1991).
King, Benjamin and Kutta, Timothy, Impact: The History of Germany’s V-Weapons in World War II (Rockville Center, NY, 1998).
King, Henry T., The Two Worlds of Albert Speer: Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor (New York, 1997).
Kitchen, Martin, Rommel’s Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941–1943 (Cambridge, 2009).
Klemann, Hein and Kudryashov, Sergei, Occupied Economies: An Economic History of Nazi-Occupied Europe, 1939–45 (London, 2012).
Kuehn, John T., Agents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy (Annapolis, MD, 2008).
Lacey, James, Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How US Economists Won World War II (Annapolis, MD, 2011).
Larrabee, Eric, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his Lieutenants, and their War (New York, 1987).
Lash, Joseph P., Roosevelt and Churchill 1939–1941: The Partnership that Saved the West (London, 1976).
Leahy, William D., I Was There: The Personal Story of the Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt and Truman Based on his Notes and Diaries at the Time (London, 1950).
LeMay, Curtis E., Mission with LeMay: My Story (New York, 1965).
LeMay, Curtis and Yenne, Bill, Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Air Power in World War II (Yardley, PA, 2007).
Leutze, James R., Bargaining for Supremacy: Anglo-American Naval Cooperation, 1937–1941 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1977).
Levy, James P., The Royal Navy’s Home Fleet in World War II (Basingstoke, 2003).
Long, Gavin, MacArthur as Military Commander (London, 1969).
Lowe, Keith, Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 (London, 2007).
Ludewig, Joachim, Ruckzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944 (Lexington, KY, 2012).
MacDonald, Charles B., The Battle of the Bulge (London, 1984).
MacDonald, Charles B., A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge (New York, 2002).
McFarland, Stephen, America’s Pursuit of Precision Bombing: 1910–1945 (Washington, DC, 1995).
McJimsey, George, Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy (Cambridge, MA, 1987).
McKercher, Brian (ed.), Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s (London, 1991)
Maiolo, Joseph, Cry Havoc: The Arms Race and the Second World War (London, 2011).
Maiolo, Joseph, The Royal Navy and Nazi Germany: A Study of Appeasement and the Origins of the Second World War (London, 1998).
Majdalany, Fred, The Battle of El Alamein: Fortress in the Sand (Philadelphia, 1965).
Matthews, Rupert, RAF Bomber Command at War (London, 2009).
Mawdsley, Evan, Thunder in the East: The Nazi–Soviet War 1941–1945 (London, 2005).
Mazower, Mark, Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (London, 2008).
Megargee, Geoffrey P., Inside Hitler’s High Command (Lawrence, KS, 2000).
von Mellenthin, F. W., Panzer Battles (Stroud, 1956).
Meschnig, Alexander, Der Wille sur Bewegung: Militärischer Traum und totalitäres Programm. Eine Mentalitätsgeschichte vom Ersten Weltkrieg zum Nationalsozialismus (Bielefeld, 2008).
Mierzejewski, Alfred, The Collapse of the German War Economy: 1944–1945 (Chapel Hill, NC, 1988).
Miller, Edward, Bankrupting the Enemy: The US Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor (Annapolis, MD, 2007).
Miller, Edward S., War Plan Orange: The US Strategy to Defeat Japan (Annapolis, MD, 1991).
Miller, Nathan, War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II (New York, 1995).
Millett, Allan R., Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps (New York, 1991).
Millett, Allan R., and Murray, Williamson, Military Effectiveness, vol. III: The Second World War (Cambridge, 2010).
Milner, Marc, The Battle of the Atlantic (Stroud, 2003).
Milner, Marc, North Atlantic Run: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Battle for the Convoys (Toronto, 1985).
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Mitcham, Samuel W., Panzers in Winter: Hitler’s Army in the Battle of the Bulge (Westport, CT, 2006).
Mitchell, B. R., British Historical Statistics (Cambridge, 1988).
Mitchell, William, Winged Defense: The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power – Economic and Military (New York, 1925).
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Muller, Richard, The German Air War in Russia (Baltimore, 1992).
Murfett, Malcolm, Naval Warfare 1919–1945: An Operational History of the Volatile War at Sea (London, 2009).
Murray, Williamson, Luftwaffe: Strategy for Defeat, 1933–1945 (London, 1985).
Murray, Williamson, Military Adaptation in War: With Fear of Change (Cambridge, 2011).
Murray, Williamson, War, Strategy and Military Effectiveness (Cambridge, 2011).
Murray, Williamson and Millett, Allan R., Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, vol. III (Cambridge, 1996).
Murray, Williamson and Millett, Allan R., A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War (Cambridge, MA, 2000).
Nakamura, Takafusa and Odaka, Konosuke (eds.), The Economic History of Japan: 1600–1900 (Oxford, 1999).
Neillands, Robin, The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive, 1939–1945 (London, 2001).
Neufeld, Michael J., The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era (New York, 1995).
Niepold, Gerd, Battle for White Russia: The Destruction of Army Group Centre, June 1944 (London, 1987).
O’Brien, Phillips P., British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policies, 1909–1936 (Westport, CT, 1994).
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Overmans, Rudiger, Deutsche Militärische Verluste im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Munich, 2004).
Overy, Richard, The Air War 1939–45 (New York, 1991).
Overy, Richard, The Bombing War: Europe 1939–1945 (London, 2013).
Overy, Richard, War and Economy in the Third Reich (Oxford, 2002).
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Padfield, Peter, War beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict during World War II (New York, 1995).
Pape, Robert A., Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (London, 1996).
Parillo, Mark P., The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II (Annapolis, MD, 1993).
Parshall, Johnathan and Tully, Anthony, Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway (Dulles, VA, 2007).
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Payne, Stanley G., Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany and World War II (London, 2008).
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Sainsbury, Keith, The Turning Point: Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill and Chiang-Kai-Shek, 1943: The Moscow, Cairo and Teheran Conferences (Oxford, 1985).
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Schaffer, Ronald, Wings of Judgement: American Bombing in World War II (Oxford, 1985).
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