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This page lists the books about World War II in my personal military history library. I have split it off from User:Donner60/Military History Library because that page was becoming too long, even with American Revolutionary War and American Civil War books already split off. Some of the books on this list concern the war, or battles or aspects or leaders of the war, before American involvement. This page includes biographies, autobiographies and memoirs of military leaders and wartime political leaders.

I created these pages to have a list of books that I use for creating and editing articles. I can use them for easier research and reference. I also have the article titles in at least one of the proper formats for citation in articles.

Some of these books might fit in more than one category below or perhaps in a more specific unused additional category. Except for a few titles as indicated in their entries, I only list each book once under what is, or seems to be, the major category for it in order to limit the space used. A few of these listings are close calls between at least two categories.

Latest update

 * October 12, 2023.

Atlases; Chronologies

 * Griess, Thomas E., ed. West Point Atlas For The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-7570-0163-5.
 * Griess, Thomas E., ed. West Point Atlas For The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-7570-0161-1.
 * See related Griess titles in next section.
 * Naval History Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. United States Naval Chronology, World War II. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1955..

General, Overview, Survey
General overviews for individual theaters in Europe and Pacific sections except West Point histories here, related to Atlases
 * Ellis, John. The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. ISBN 978-0-684-16619-3.
 * Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Gathering Storm. Volume I. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Originally published in 1948. ISBN 978-0-395-41055-4.
 * Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: Their Finest Hour. Volume II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Originally published in 1949. ISBN 978-0-395-41056-1.
 * Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Grand Alliance. Volume III. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Originally published in 1950. ISBN 978-0-395-41057-8.
 * Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate. Volume IV. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Originally published in 1950. ISBN 978-0-395-41058-5.
 * Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: Closing the Ring. Volume V. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Originally published in 1951. ISBN 978-0-395-41059-2.
 * Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy. Volume VI. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Originally published in 1953. ISBN 978-0-395-41060-8.
 * Deighton, Len. Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. London: William Collins, 2014. ISBN 978-0-00-753117-2. First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1993.
 * Gilbert, Martin. The Second World War: A Complete History. Revised Edition. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004. Originally published, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8050-7623-3.
 * Griess, Thomas E., ed. The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific. The West Point Military History Series. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-7570-0162-8. Authors: John H. Bradley and Jack W. Dice. Atlas accompanies.
 * Griess, Thomas E., ed. The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean. The West Point Military History Series. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002. ISBN 978-0-7570-0160-4. Authors: Thomas B. Buell, Clifton R. Franks, John A. Hixson, David R. Mets, Bruce R. Pirnie, James F. Ransone, Jr., Thomas R. Stone. Originally published Wayne, NJ: Avery, 1984. Atlas accompanies.
 * Hastings, Max. Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Originally published London: HarperPress, 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-27359-8.
 * Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Penguin Books, 2005 edition. Originally published 1990. ISBN 978-0-14-303573-2.
 * Luce, Henry R. editor; John Dille, series editor. Time Capsule: History of the War Years, 1939-1945. New York: Bonanza Books, 1972. Originally published 1967. Condensed from the pages of Time Magazine..
 * Polmar, Norman and Allen, Thomas B. World War II The Encyclopedia of the War Years 1931-1945. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-0-486-47962-0. Unabridged and republication of original work. Originally published by New York: Random House, 1996.
 * Sulzberger, C. L., author, McCullough, David G., editor. The American Heritage Picture History of World War II. New York, NY: American Heritage Pub. Co, 1966..
 * Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Originally published 2005. ISBN 978-0-521-61826-7.

Politics, Society

 * Fleming, Thomas. The New Dealers' War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the War Within World War II New York: Basic Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-465-02464-3.
 * Lacey, James (author). The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and The Politics of War That Won World War II. New York: Bantam Books, 2019. ISBN 978-0-345-54758-3.
 * Wortman, Marc. 1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided American in a World at War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8021-2511-8.

Special Studies, Photos

 * Citino, Robert M. The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years War to the Third Reich. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7006-1410-3.
 * Citino, Robert M. Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Bliztkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7006-1655-8.
 * Cowdrey, Albert E. Fighting for Life: American Military Medicine in World War II. New York: The Free Press, A division of Macmillan, Inc., 1994. ISBN 978-0-02-906835-9.
 * Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy: How the GIs Fought the War in Europe. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994. ISBN 978-0-7006-0675-7.
 * Davis, Victor Hanson. The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. New York: Basic Books, 2017. ISBN 978-0-465-06698-8.
 * Jacobs, Gregory S. Camp Grant. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. ISBN 978-0-7385-3219-6. Also under WWI.
 * Jordan, Killian. Life Our Finest Hour: Voices of the World War II Generation. Des Moines, IA: LIFE Books, 2000. ISBN 978-1-883013-98-1.
 * Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. Eyewitness to World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs From History's Greatest Conflict. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4262-0970-3.
 * Kennedy, Paul. Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War. New York: Random House, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4000-6761-9.
 * McCombs, Don and Fred L. Worth. World War II: 4,139 Strange and Fascinating Facts. New York: Wings Books, a division of Random House, 1996. Originally published 1983. ISBN 978-0-517-42286-1.
 * Murray, Williamson and Allan R. Millett. A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-674-00163-3.
 * Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997. ISBN 978-0-393-03925-2. Originally published London: Pimlico, 1995 and New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996.

Unit Histories
Multi-volume history of 29th Division in Europe sections. Also see some titles in: Europe: Air War; Pacific Air War; Pacific: Atomic Bomb; 509th below
 * Gilbert, Adrian. Waffen-SS: Hitler's Army at War. New York: Da Capo Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-306-82465-4.
 * Humphrey, Robert E. Once Upon a Time in War: The 99th Division in World War II. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8061-4454-2.
 * Nordyke, Phil. All American All the Way: The Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7603-2201-7.
 * Tillman, Barrett. US Marine Corps Fighter Squadrons of World War II. New York: Osprey, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78200-410-3.
 * Wheeler, James Scott. The Big Red One: America's Legendary 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7006-1552-0.
 * Yeide, Harry. The Infantry Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8117-0595-0.

Air Force (Army Air Forces): General, Leaders

 * Army Air Forces Aid Society. AAF: The Official World War II Guide to the Army Air Forces; A Directory, Almanac and Chronicle of Achievement. New York: Bonanza Books, 1982. Originally published New York, Simon & Schuster, 1944, as The Official Guide to the Army Air Forces. ISBN 978-0-517-66803-0.
 * Autobiography, Biography, also see separate section below.
 * Boyne, Walter J. Clash of Wings: World War II in the Air. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. ISBN 978-0-671-79370-8.
 * Bowman, Martin W. USAAF Handbook 1939-1945. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8117-1822-6.
 * LeMay, Curtis with Bill Yenne. Superfortress: The Boeing B-29 and American Airpower in World War II. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2007. Originally published McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1988. ISBN 978-1-59416-039-4. See also Atomic Bomb section below
 * Keil, Sally VanWagenen. Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II. New York: Four Directions Press, 1990. Revised and expanded edition. ISBN 978-0-9627659-0-2.
 * Link, Mae Mills and Hubert A. Coleman. Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, USAF, 1955..
 * Perret, Geoffrey. Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II. New York: Random House, 1993. ISBN 978-0-679-40464-4.

Navy: General, Leaders

 * Autobiography, Biography, also see separate section below.
 * Borneman, Walter R. The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2012. ISBN 978-0-316-09784-0.
 * Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Originally published by New York: Scribner, 1995. ISBN 978-0-19-511038-8.
 * Tuohy, William. America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7603-2985-6.
 * Willmott, H. P. Battleship. London: Cassell, 2002. ISBN 978-0-304-35810-6.

Atlantic: Naval

 * Dimbleby, Jonathan The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-090583-5. First published in Great Britain by Viking, 2015.
 * Terraine, John. Business In Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1999. ISBN 978-1-84022-201-2. First published London: Leo Cooper Limited, 1989.

Africa, Italy, Mediterranean, Balkans

 * Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8050-6288-5.
 * Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8050-6289-2.
 * Hindley, Meredith. Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II. New York: Public Affairs/Hatchette Book Group, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61039-405-5.
 * Hastings, Max. Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942. New York: Harper, 2021. ISBN 978-0-06-298015-1.
 * Holland, James. Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege, 1940-1943. London: Widenfeld & Nicholson, 2004. ISBN 978-0-3043-6654-5. First published London: Orion, 2003.
 * Holland, James. Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe. London: Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers, 2020. ISBN 978-1-7876-3294-3.
 * Holland, James. Together We Stand: North Africa 1942-1943: Turning the Tide in the West. London: Harper Collins Entertainment, 2006. ISBN 978-0-00-717646-5
 * O'Hara, Vincent P. In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-253-00605-9.
 * O'Hara, Vincent P. Six Victories: North Africa, Malta, and the Mediterranean Convoy War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-68247-460-0.
 * O'Hara, Vincent P. Torch: North Africa and the Allied Path to Victory. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61251-823-7.
 * Rieber, Alfred J. Storms Over the Balkans During World War II. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-285803-0.
 * Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume One: North Africa June 1940–June 1942. London: Grub Street, 2012. ISBN 978-1-908117-07-6.
 * Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk & Winfried Bock. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume Two: North African Desert February 1942–March 1943. London: Grub Street, 2012. ISBN 978-1-909166-12-7.
 * Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk & Winfried Bock. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the End in Africa November 1942–May 1943. London: Grub Street, 2016. ISBN 978-1-910690-00-0.
 * Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock & Wg Cdr Andy Thomas. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June 1944. London: Grub Street, 2018. ISBN 978-1-911621-10-2.
 * Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock & Andrew Thomas. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War. London: Grub Street, 2021. ISBN 978-1-911621-97-3.
 * Stewart, Alexander. The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-300-20855-9.

Europe: General, Land West

 * Balkoski, Joseph. Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Third Edition. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8117-3237-6.
 * Balkoski, Joseph. From Beachhead to Brittany: The 29th Infantry Division at Brest. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8117-0325-3.
 * Balkoski, Joseph. From Brittany to the Reich: The 29th Infantry Division in Germany. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8117-1168-5.
 * Balkoski, Joseph. Our Tortured Souls: The 29th Infantry Division in the Rhineland. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8117-1169-2.
 * Balkoski, Joseph. The Last Roll Call: The 29th Infantry Division Victorious. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8117-1621-5.
 * Holland, James. The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943: The War in the West. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8021-2560-6.
 * Holland, James. The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8021-2397-8.
 * Mansoor, Peter R. The GI Offensive in Europe: the Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ISBN 978-0-7006-1226-0.
 * MacDonald, Charles B. The Mighty Endeavor: The American War in Europe. New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1992. ISBN 978-0-306-80486-1. Originally published New York: Quill, 1986.
 * Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Shuster, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4516-5168-3. Originally published New York: Simon & Shuster, 1960.

Europe: Land East

 * Buttar, Prit. Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II. New York: Osprey Publishing, 2015. First published in Great Britain in 2013. ISBN 978-1-4728-0749-6.
 * Craig, William. Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. Old Saybrook, CT: Konecky & Konecky: 1973. ISBN 978-1-56852-368-2.
 * Erickson, John. The Road to Berlin: Stalin's War with Germany. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-300-07813-8.
 * Glantz, David M. and Jonathan M. House. Stalingrad. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-7006-2382-2.
 * Glantz, David M. and Jonathan M. House. When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. revised and expanded ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. ISBN 978-0-7006-2121-7.
 * Luther, Craig W. H. Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June-December 1941. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7643-4376-6.
 * Stahel, David. Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941-1942. New York: Picador, 2020. ISBN 978-1-250-75816-3. Originally published: Farrar. Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Europe: Battle of France, Britain's War

 * Deighton, Len. Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk. London: William Collins, 2014. ISBN 978-0-00-753119-6. First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1979.
 * Horne, Alistair. To Lose a Battle: France 1940. London, New York: Penguin, 2007. ISBN 978-0-141-03065-4. First published in Great Britain by Macmillan London, Ltd., 1969 and in the United States of America by Little Brown and Company, 1969.
 * Olson, Lynne. Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of the War. New York: Random House, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8129-9735-4.
 * Todman, Daniel. Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937–1941. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-062180-3. First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane.

Europe: D-Day
See also Special Operations and Espionage Sections below
 * Balkoski, Joseph. Omaha Beach. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. ISBN 978-0-8117-0079-5.
 * Balkoski, Joseph. Utah Beach. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8117-0144-0.
 * Caddick-Adams, Peter. Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-19-060189-8.
 * Hastings, Max. Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. New York: Vintage Books, 2006. Originally published London, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. ISBN 978-0-307-27571-4.
 * Holland, James. Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France. ISBN 978-0-8021-2942-0.
 * Kershaw, Ian. The First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2019. ISBN 978-0-451-49005-6.
 * Kershaw, Robert. Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach. New York: Pegasus Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-64313-350-8. First hardcover edition 2018.
 * McManus, John C. The Dead and Those About to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach. New York: NAL Caliber, Penguin Group (USA), 2014. ISBN 978-0-451-41529-5.
 * Symonds, Craig L. Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-998611-8.
 * Zaloga, Steven. The Devils Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8117-1228-6.

Europe: Market Garden, Aachen, Huertgen Forest

 * Beevor, Antony. The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. New York: Viking, 2018. ISBN 978-0-525-42982-1.
 * Astor, Gerald. The Bloody Forest: Battle for the Huertgen: September 1944 - January 1945. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, Inc., 2000. ISBN 978-0-89141-699-9.
 * Baumer, Robert W. Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8117-1482-2.
 * McManus, John C. September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far. New York: NAL Caliber, Penguin Group (USA), 2012. ISBN 978-0-451-23706-4.
 * Miller, Edward G. A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-89096-626-6.
 * Wahlman, Alec. Storming the City: U. S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-57441-622-0. (Aachen)

Europe: Ardennes; Battle of the Bulge

 * Beevor, Antony. Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge. New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2015. ISBN 978-0-670-02531-2. Originally published in Great Britain by Viking as Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble.
 * Caddick-Adams, Peter. Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944-45. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-933514-5.
 * Cavanagh, William C. C. The Battle East of Elsenborn and the Twin Villages. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84884-892-4.
 * Doherty, J. C. The Shock of War, Volume 2: Unknown Battles That Ruined Adolph Hitler's Plan for a Second Blitzkrieg in the West, December-January, 1944-45. Alexandria, VA: Vert Milon press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-9613980-5-7.
 * MacDonald, Charles B. A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York: Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. ISBN 978-0-688-15157-7. Originally published New York: Harper-Collins, 1985.
 * McManus, John C. Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007. ISBN 978-0-471-73905-0.
 * Morelock, Jerry D. Generals of the Bulge: Leadership in the U.S. Army's Greatest Battle. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8117-1199-9.
 * Wijers, Hans. Battle of the Bulge: Volume Two: Hell at Butgenbach / Seize the Bridges. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8117-3587-2.
 * Zaloga, Steven. Smashing Hitler's Panzers: The Defeat of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Guilford, CT: Stackpole Books, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8117-3777-7.

Europe: Air War: Battle of Britain

 * Deighton, Len. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: William Collins, 2014. ISBN 978-0-00-753118-9. First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1977.
 * Holland, James. The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Change History, May - October 1940. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2010. ISBN 978-1-250-00215-0. First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, 2010.

Europe: Air War

 * Astor, Gerald. The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It. New York: NAL Caliber, trademark of Penguin Random House LLC, 1997. ISBN 978-0-425-28157-4.
 * Bowman, Martin W. US Eighth Air Force in Europe: Eager Eagles 1941 - Summer 1943, Going Over, Gaining Strength. Volume 1. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84884-749-1.
 * Bowman, Martin W. US Eighth Air Force in Europe: The Eagle Spreads Its Wings,: Blitz Week, Black Thursday, Blood & Oil. Volume 2. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84884-747-7.
 * Caidin, Martin. Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid. Middletown, Delaware: publisher not identified (self-published?), 2018. ISBN 978-1-9803-8651-3. First published by Dutton, 1960.
 * Miller, Donald L. Eighth Air Force: The American bomber crews in Britain. London: Arum Press Ltd., 2008. (Originally published 2007.)(Same book as Masters of the Air) ISBN 978-1-84513-221-7.
 * Miller, Donald L. Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. (Originally published 2006.)(Same book as Eighth Air Force.) ISBN 978-0-7432-3545-7.
 * O'Neill, Brian D.. Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer: B-17s Over Germany. Revised Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998. ISBN 0-07-134145-5.
 * Overy, Richard. The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied War Over Europe, 1940-1945. New York: Penguin Viking, 2014. ISBN 978-0-670-02515-2. An abridgement of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945, published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books. The US edition cuts all the chapters on the London blitz and German bombing of Russia and retains only the chapters on the allied bombing of Germany and Italy.
 * Stout, Jay A. Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015. ISBN 978-0-425-27409-5.
 * Stout, Jay A. The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe: The U.S. Army Air Forces against Germany in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8117-0659-9.
 * Tillman, Barrett. Forgotten Fifteenth: The Daring Airmen Who Crippled Hitler's War Machine. New York: Regnery History, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62157-208-4.

See also: "Africa, Italy, Mediterranean" above for multi-volume A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War.

Europe: End of the War

 * Atkinson, Rick. The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8050-6290-8.
 * Caddick-Adams, Peter. Fire and Steel: The End of the War in the West. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-060186-7.
 * Hastings, Max. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945. New York: Vintage Books, 2005. Originally published in hardcover New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN 978-0-375-71422-1.
 * Kershaw, Ian. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945. New York: The Penguin Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59420-314-5.
 * Miller, Edward G. Nothing Less Than Full Victory: Americans at War in Europe, 1944-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59114-494-6.
 * Prefer, Nathan N. Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine: The Battles for the Colmar Pocket. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61200-322-1.
 * Ullrich, Volker. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich. New York: W. W. Norton & Company: 2020. ISBN 978-1-63149-827-5. Originally published in German.
 * Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990. Originally published 1981. ISBN 978-0-253-20608-4.
 * Yeide, Harry. The Longest Battle: September 1944 to February 1945 From Aachen to the Roer and Across. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7603-2155-3.

Pacific, Asia: General, Land

 * Bergerud, Eric M. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books, 1996. ISBN 978-0-670-86158-3.
 * Costello, John. The Pacific War. New York: Quill, 1982. Originally published New York, Rawson, Wade, 1981. ISBN 978-0-688-01620-3.
 * Frank, Richard B. Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2020. ISBN 978-1-324-00210-9.
 * Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-0-307-59401-3.
 * McManus, John C. Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2019. ISBN 978-0-451-47504-6.
 * McManus, John C. Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey. 1944. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2021. ISBN 978-0-451-47506-0.
 * McManus, John C. To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2023. ISBN 978-0-593-18688-6.
 * Miller, Edward S. War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991. ISBN 978-1-59114-500-4.
 * North, Oliver with Joe Musser. War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0-89526-109-0.
 * Rems, Alan. South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61251-471-0.
 * Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Vintage Books, 1985. ISBN 978-0-394-74101-7.
 * Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. New York: The Modern Library, 2003. Originally published New York: Random House, Inc., 1970. ISBN 978-0-8129-6858-3.
 * Wilmott, H. P. The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies February To June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008. Originally published 1983. ISBN 978-1-59114-949-1.
 * Wilmott, H. P. Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies To April 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010. Originally published 1982. ISBN 978-1-59114-948-4.

Pacific, Asia: China, Burma, India

 * Holland, James. Burma '44: The Battle that Turned Britain's War in the East. London: Corgi Books (Penguin Random House, UK), 2016. ISBN 978-0-552-17203-5.
 * Mitter, Rana. Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945. Originally published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013, as The Struggle for Survival: China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945. Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2013. ISBN 978-0-618-89425-3.
 * Mortimer, Gavin. Merrill's Marauders: The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7603-4432-3.
 * Webster, Donovan. The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II. New York: Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2004. ISBN 978-0-06-074638-4. Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Pacific: Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Alaska; Aleutians

 * Garfield, Brian. The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-912006-83-3. Reprint edition. Originally published Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
 * Prange, Gordon W. with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York and London: Penguin Books, 1982. ISBN 978-0-14-015734-5. Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981.
 * Toland, John. But Not In Shame: The Six Months After Pearl Harbor. New York: Random House, 1961..
 * Toland, John. Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1982. ISBN 978-0-385-42051-8. Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday, 1982.
 * Urwin, Gregory J. W. Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Bison Books, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8032-9562-9.

Pacific, Land: Guadalcanal, Solomons

 * Christ, James F. Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at GAVUTU and Bloody Ridge, 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59114-114-3.
 * Christ, James F. Mission Raise Hell: The U.S. Marines on Choiseul, October-November 1943. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-59114-113-6.
 * Day, Ronnie. New Georgia: The Second Battle for the Solomons. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-253-01877-9.
 * Frank, Richard B. Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. Originally published New York: Random House, 1990. ISBN 978-0-394-58875-9.
 * Leckie, Robert. Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War. New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Originally published in hard cover New York: Doubleday, 1965. ISBN 978-0-553-3891-2.
 * Moore, Stephen L. The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal. New York: NAL Caliber, 2015. ISBN 978-0-451-47375-2.
 * Smith, Michael S. Bloody Ridge: The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, Inc., 2000. ISBN 978-0-89141-718-7.
 * Wheelan, Joseph. Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal, The World War II Battle that Turned the Tide of War. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-306-82459-3.

Pacific, Land: New Guinea, Rabaul

 * Dean, Peter J. (author). MacArthur's Coalition: US and Australian Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-7006-2604-5.
 * Duffy, James P. War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea. New York: New American Library, 2016. ISBN 978-0-451-41830-2.
 * Gamble, Bruce. Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942-April 1943. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013. Originally published in hardcover, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7603-4559-7.
 * Gamble, Bruce. Target Rabaul: The Allied Siege of Japan's Most Infamous Stronghold, March 1943-August 1945. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7603-4407-1.
 * Taaffe, Stephen R. MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998. ISBN 978-0-7006-0870-6.

Pacific, Land: Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign

 * Wukovits, John. One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa. New York: NAL Caliber, 2006. ISBN 978-0-451-22138-4.

Pacific, Land: Philippines

 * Bruer, William B. Retaking the Philippines: America's Return to Corregidor, Manila and Bataan: October 1944-March 1945. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-312-90788-4.
 * Kolakowski, Christopher L. Last Stand on Bataan: The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016. ISBN 978-0-7864-7489-9.
 * Prados, John. Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy. New York: NAL Caliber, trademark of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016. ISBN 978-0-451-47361-5.

Pacific, Land: Mariana and Palau Islands campaign

 * Blair, Bobby C., and John Peter DeCioccio. Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014 (paperback). Originally published in hard cover, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8061-4680-5.
 * Goldberg, Harold J. D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2077. ISBN 978-0-253-34869-2.
 * Hallas, James H. Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II. Lanham, MD: Stackpole Books, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8117-3843-9.
 * Prefer, Nathan N. The Battle for Tinian: Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-1-61200-094-7.

Pacific, Land: Iwo Jima, Okinawa

 * Christ, James F. Iwo: Assault on Hell. Chandler, AZ: Battlefields Publishing LLC, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4635-6688-3.
 * David, Saul. Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945. New York: Hachette Books. 2020. ISBN 978-0-316-53467-3.
 * David, Saul. The Force : The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible. New York: Hachette Books. 2019. ISBN 978-0-316-41453-1.
 * Newcomb, Richard F. Iwo Jima: The Dramatic Account of the Epic Battle that Turned the Tide of World War II. foreword by Harry Schmidt. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8050-7071-2. Originally published New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
 * Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 - The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7432-9247-4 (pbk.)

Pacific, Asia: Naval

 * Calhoun, Captain C. Raymond. Typhoon: The Other Enemy, The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981. ISBN 978-1-55750-107-3.
 * Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey. Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944. New York and Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2017. ISBN 978-1-4728-2188-1.
 * Cox. Jeffrey R. Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II. Oxford and New York: Osprey Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78096-726-4.
 * Cutler, Thomas J. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Originally published 1994. ISBN 978-1-55750-243-8.
 * Gandt, Robert. The Twilight Warriors: The Deadliest Naval Battle of World War II and the Men Who Fought It. New York: Broadway Books, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7679-3241-7.
 * Henderson, Bruce B. Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II New York: Collins, 2007. ISBN 978-0-06-117316-5. ("Halsey's Typhoon")
 * Hornfischer, James D. The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945. New York: Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, 2016. ISBN 978-0-345-54870-2.
 * Hornfischer, James D. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. New York: Bantam Dell, 2005. ISBN 978-0-553-38148-1.
 * Hornfischer, James D. Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. New York: Random House, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-0-553-80670-0.
 * Hornfischer, James D. Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors. New York: Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, 2006. ISBN 978-0-553-80390-7.
 * Kleiss, N. Jack "Dusty". Never Call Me A Hero: A Legendary Dive-Bomber Pilot Remembers the Battle of Midway. New York: HarperCollins, 2017 ISBN 978-0-06-269205-4.
 * Leckie, Robert. Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2010. Originally published New York: Random House, 1962. ISBN 978-0-306-81887-5.
 * Lundstrom, John B. The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941 - June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59114-417-5. Originally published 1976.
 * Lundstrom, John B. The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-59114-471-7. Originally published in hardcover 1984, revised 1990.
 * Lundstrom, John B. The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-59114-472-4. Originally published in hardcover, 1994.
 * Melton, Jr., Buckner F. Sea Cobra: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59228-978-3.
 * Morison, Samuel Eliot History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 - August 1944. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Originally published 1953..
 * Morison, Samuel Eliot History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume XIV: Victory in the Pacific, 1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. Originally published Boston, Little Brown 1947-62. ISBN 978-1-59114-579-0.
 * Parshall, Jonathan and Anthony Tully. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Originally published 2005, first edition 1993. ISBN 978-1-57488-923-9.
 * Stafford, Edward P. The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Originally published 1962. ISBN 978-1-55750-998-7.
 * Symonds, Craig L. The Battle of Midway. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-539793-2.
 * Toll, Ian W. The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015. ISBN 978-0-393-08064-3.
 * Toll, Ian W. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-06813-9.
 * Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2020. ISBN 978-0-393-08065-0.
 * Wukovits, John. Hell From the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS 'Laffey' and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-306-82454-8.

Pacific: Submarines; O'Kane

 * Beach, Edward L. Submarine! Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-59114-058-0. Originally published New York: Holt, 1952.
 * Blair, Jr., Clay. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.
 * Fluckey, Eugene B. Thunder Below!: The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-252-06670-2.
 * O'Kane, Richard H. Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the USS Tang. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1977. ISBN 978-0-528-81058-9.
 * Scott, James. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4391-7684-9.
 * Tuohy, William. The Bravest Man: The Story of Richard O'Kane & U.S. Submariners in the Pacific War. Stroud: Sutton, 2001. ISBN 978-0-7509-2767-3.

Pacific: Air War

 * Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8133-3869-9.
 * Gamble, Bruce. Kangaroo Squadron: American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II. New York: Da Capo Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-306-90312-0.
 * Miller, Jr., Thomas G. The Cactus Air Force. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Originally published New York: Harper & Row, 1969. ISBN 978-0-553-14766-7.
 * Morrison, Wilbur H. Point of No Return: The Story of the 20th Air Force. New York: Times Books, 1979. ISBN 978-0-8129-0738-4.
 * Nelson, Larry. Hell for Honshu: An Army Air Corps Navigator Tells the Story of the World War II Bombing Raids on Japan. Denver: Outskirts Press, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4327-1308-9.
 * Scott, James M. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2022. ISBN 978-1-324-00299-4.
 * Tillman, Barrett. Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan 1942-1945. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4165-8440-7.

Pacific: Atomic Bomb; 509th

 * Campbell, Richard H. The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs. Introduction by Tibbet, Paul W. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0-7864-6907-9.
 * Christman, Al. Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-55750-120-2.
 * Coster-Mullen, John. Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man. Copyrighted and Published by John Coster-Mullen, 2016..
 * Farrell, Don A. Atomic Bomb Island: Tinian, The Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II. Lanham, MD: Stackpole Books, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8117-3961-0.
 * Groves, General Leslie M. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project. New York: Da Capo Press, Inc., 1983. Originally published New York: Harper, 1962. ISBN 978-0-306-80189-1.
 * Gordin, Michael D. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-691-12818-4.
 * Harder, Robert O. The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61251-902-9.
 * Krauss, Robert; Krauss, Amelia, eds. The 509th Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group as Told by the Veterans Themselves, 509th Anniversary Reunion, Wichita, Kansas October 7–10, 2004. Revised (second) edition. Buchanan, Michigan: 509th Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-923568-66-5.
 * Kunetka, James. The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2015. ISBN 978-1-62157-338-8.
 * Maddox, Robert James, ed. Hiroshima In History: The Myths of Revisionism. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-8262-1962-6.
 * Polmar, Norman. The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc.: 2004. ISBN 978-1-57488-859-1.
 * Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1986. ISBN 978-0-684-81378-3.
 * Sheinkin, Steve. Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon. New York: Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59643-487-5.
 * Sweeney, Charles W. and Antonucci, James A.; Antonucci, Marion K. War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission. New York: Avon Books, 1997. ISBN 978-0-380-97349-1.
 * Thomas, Gordon and Max Morgan-Witts. Enola Gay. New York: Stein and Day, 1977. ISBN 978-0-8128-2150-5.
 * Tibbets, Paul W. Flight of the Enola Gay. Columbus, OH: Mid Coast Marketing, 1989. ISBN 978-0-942397-11-6.
 * Tibbets, Paul W. Return of the Enola Gay. New Hope, PA: Enola Gay Remembered, Inc., 1998. ISBN 978-0-9703666-0-3. (autographed by Paul Tibbets)
 * Tibbets, Jr., Paul W., with Clair Stebbins and Harry Franken. The Tibbets Story. New York: Stein and Day, 1978. ISBN 978-0-8128-2157-4.
 * Walker, Stephen. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-0-06-074284-3.

Pacific: End of the War; Downfall

 * Allen, Thomas B and Polmar, Norman. Code-Name: Down-Fall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan - And Why Truman Dropped the Bomb. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1995. ISBN 978-0-684-80406-4.
 * Barrett, David Dean. 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon. New York: Diversion Books, 2020. ISBN 978-1-63576-581-6.
 * Brown, Don with Captain Jerry Yellin. The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2017. ISBN 978-1-62157-506-1.
 * Craig, William. The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2017. ISBN 978-1-5040-4689-3. Originally published 1967.
 * Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Originally published New York: Random House, 1999. ISBN 978-0-14-100146-3.
 * Geoghegan, John J. Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II. New York, Crown Publishers, 2013. ISBN 978-0-307-46480-4.
 * Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59114-316-1.
 * Heinrichs, Waldo and Marc Gallicchio. ''Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-061675-5.
 * Hastings, Max. Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945. New York: Vintage Books, 2009. Originally published London: Harper Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-27536-3.
 * Walker, Paul D. Truman's Dilemma: Invasion or the Bomb. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2003. ISBN 978-1-58980-119-6.
 * Weintraub, Sidney (historian). The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July /August 1945. New York: Trutton Talley/Dutton, 1995. ISBN 978-0-525-93687-9.

Biography
Also Navy: General, Leaders
 * Alexander, Larry. Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers. New York: NAL Caliber, 2005. ISBN 978-0-451-21510-9.
 * Borneman, Walter R. MacArthur at War: World War II in the Pacific. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2016. ISBN 978-0-316-40532-4.
 * Buell, Thomas B. Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012. Originally published Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. ISBN 978-1-59114-042-9.
 * Buell, Thomas B. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. Originally published Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974; Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987. ISBN 978-1-59114-085-6.
 * Cray, Ed. General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman. New York, Cooper Square Press, 2000. Originally published 1990. ISBN 978-0-8154-1042-3.
 * Dietz, Suzanne Simon. My True Course: Dutch Van Kirk Northumberland to Hiroshima. Lawrenceville, GA: Red Gremlin Press LLC, 2012. ISBN 978-0-692-01676-3. (autographed by Dutch Van Kirk)
 * Farago, Ladislas. The Last Days of Patton. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2011. First published by McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981. ISBN 978-1-59416-138-4.
 * Farago, Ladislas. Patton: Ordeal and Triumph. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2005. First published by Dell and Ivan Obolensky, 1964. ISBN 978-1-59416-011-0.
 * Ferguson, Harvey. The Last Cavalryman: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8061-4664-5.
 * Harris, Brayton. Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. ISBN 978-0-230-10765-6.
 * Hastings, Max. Winston's War: Churchill, 1940–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-26839-6.
 * Hoffman, Lt. Col. Jon T. Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC. New York: Random House, 2001. ISBN 978-0-679-44732-0. also listed in Korean War section.
 * Kozak, Warren. Curtis LeMay: Strategist and Tactician. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2014. ISBN 978-1-62157-299-2. Originally published in hardcover, 2009; first paperback edition, 2011.
 * Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964. New York: Back Bay Books, 2008. Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1978. ISBN 978-0-316-02474-7.
 * Manchester, William. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. New York: Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company, 2002. ISBN 978-0-316-50111-8. Originally published by Little, Brown and Company, 1980.
 * Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1983. ISBN 978-0-316-54503-7.
 * Manchester, William. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1988. ISBN 978-0-316-54503-7.
 * Manchester, William and Paul Reid. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965. New York: Little Brown and Company, 2012. ISBN 978-0-316-54770-3.
 * McCullough, David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1992. ISBN 978-0-671-86920-5.
 * Megellas, James. "The 82nd Airborne's Most Decorated Officer." All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe. New York: Presidio Press, an Imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, 2003. ISBN 978-0-89141-784-2. autographed by Jim Megellas.
 * Paterson, Michael. Winston Churchill: His military life 1895-1945. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David & Charles, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7153-1964-2.
 * Perry, Mark. The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur. New York: Basic Books, 2014. ISBN 978-0-465-01328-9.
 * Potter, E. B. Nimitz. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976. ISBN 978-0-87021-492-9.
 * Roll, David L. George Marshall: Defender of the Republic. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2019. ISBN 978-1-101-99097-1.
 * Smith, Jean Edward. Eisenhower in War and Peace. New York: Random House, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6693-3.
 * Taaffe, Stephen R. Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7006-1812-5.
 * Taylor, Theodore. The Magnificent Mitscher. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Originally published 1954. ISBN 978-1-59114-850-0.
 * Wheeler, James Scott. Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life. Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8131-6602-5.
 * Wukovits, John. Admiral "Bull" Halsey: The Life and Wars of the Navy's Most Controversial Commander. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. ISBN ISBN 978-0-230-60284-7.
 * Yenne, Bill. Hap Arnold: General Who Invented the U.S. Air Force. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2013. ISBN 978-1-62157-081-3.

Autobiography; Memoirs

 * Burgin. R. V. with William Marvel. Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific.. New York: New American Library, a division of Penguin Group, 2011. ISBN 978-0-451-22990-8.
 * Gay, George. Sole Survivor: A Personal Story About the Battle of Midway. United States: Midway Publishers, 1986. ISBN 978-0-938300-08-3. Autographed by George Gay.
 * Leckie, Robert. Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific. New York: Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, 2010. ISBN 978-0-553-59331-0. Originally published in hard cover by New York: Random House, 1957.
 * MacDonald, Charles B. Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II - From the Battle of the Bulge to the Crossing of the Rhine. Short Hills, NJ: Burford Books, Inc., 1999. ISBN 978-1-58080-038-9. Originally published Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1947.
 * Makos, Adam with Marcus Brotherton. Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II. New York: Berkley Caliber (Penguin Group, USA), 2013. ISBN 978-0-425-25782-1.
 * Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. New York: Ballantine Books, 2007. Originally published New York: Presidio Press, an imprint of Random House, 1981. ISBN 978-0-8914-1906-8.
 * Sweeney, Charles W. See Pacific: Atomic Bomb,; 509th Section above.
 * Tibbets, Jr., Paul W. See Pacific: Atomic Bomb,; 509th Section above.
 * Wilson, George. If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II - One American Officer's Riveting True Story. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. A Presidio Press Book. ISBN 978-0-8041-0003-8.

Special Operations

 * Bascomb, Neal. The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2016. ISBN 978-0-544-94729-0.
 * Camp, Dick. Shadow Warriors: The Untold Stories of American Special Operations During WWII. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7603-4429-3.
 * Beavan, Colin. Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War. New York: Viking, 2007. Originally published 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-311202-0.
 * Ben Macintyre. Rouge Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War. New York: Crown, 2016. ISBN 978-1-101-90416-9.
 * Milton, Giles Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2018. ISBN 978-1-250-13492-9.

Espionage, Deception, Code-breaking

 * Andrew, Christopher. The Secret World: A History of Intelligence. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-300-23844-0.
 * Andrew, Christopher and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield. New York, Basic Books, 1999. ISBN 978-0-465-00312-9.
 * Beyer, Rick and Elizabeth Sayles. The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61689-318-7.
 * Brown, Anthony Cave. Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day. Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 2002. ISBN 978-1-58574-692-7. Originally published: London: A Comet Book, 1975 and New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
 * Budiansky, Stephen. Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II. New York: Touchstone, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7432-1734-7. Originally published: 2000.
 * Budiansky, Stephen. Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-0-307-59596-6.
 * Carlson, Elliot. Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-61251-060-6.
 * Evans, M. Stanton. Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4000-8106-6.
 * Evans, M. Stanton and Herbert Romerstein. Stalin's Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt's Government. New York: Threshold Editions, A division of Simon & Schuster, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4391-4768-9.
 * Hastings, Max. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers and Guerrillas. New York: Harper, Collins, 2016. ISBN 978-0-06-225927-1. First published in the United Kingdom by William Collins, 2015.
 * Haynes, John Earl and Harvey Klehr. In Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005. First published in hard cover, 2003. ISBN 978-1-59403-088-8.
 * Haynes, John Earl and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven and London: Yale Nota Bene; Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0-300-08462-7.
 * Hemming, Henry. Agent M: The Lives and Spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight. New York: Public Affairs/Hatchette Book Group, Inc., 2017. ISBN 978-1-61039-684-4.
 * Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. Originally published New York: Scribner, 2004. ISBN 978-1-61608-079-2.
 * Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers and Covert Operations. Washington: National Geographic, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4262-1701-2.
 * Koster, John. Operation Snow: How A Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-1-59698-322-9.
 * MacIntyre, Ben. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-88875-4.
 * MacIntyre, Ben. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4450-9937-8.
 * Milton, Giles Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat. New York: Picador, 2016. ISBN 978-1-250-11902-5.
 * Mundy, Liza. Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. New York: Hatchette Books, 2017. ISBN 978-0-316-43989-3.
 * Purnell, Sonia. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Viking, 2019. ISBN 978-0-7352-2529-9.
 * Romerstein, Herbert and Eric Breindel. The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2001. Originally published 2000. ISBN 978-0-89526-225-7.
 * Rose, Sarah. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II. New York: Crown, 2019. ISBN 978-0-451-49508-2.
 * Sulick, Michael J. Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-62616-058-3.
 * Weinstein, Allen and Alexander Vassiliev The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America-The Stalin Era. New York: Modern Library, 2000. Originally published New York: Random House, 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-75536-1.

Artifacts, Collectibles, Insignia, Uniforms, Weapons

 * Brown, Christopher P. U.S. Military Patches of World War II. Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Company, 2002. ISBN 978-1-68162-386-3.
 * De Bree, Hans. World War II U.S. Made Fully Machine-Embroidered, Cut-Edge, Should Sleeve Insignia and How They Were Manufactured. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2013 ISBN 978-0-7643-4355-1.
 * Maguire, Jon A. More Silver Wings, Pinks & Greens: An Expanded Study of USAS, USAAC & USAAF Uniforms, Wings & Insignia 1913-1945, Including Civilian Auxiliaries. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1996. ISBN 978-0-7643-0091-2.
 * Maguire, Jon A. Silver Wings, Pinks & Greens: Uniforms, Wings & Insignia of USAAF Airmen in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military/Aviation History, 1994. ISBN 978-0-88740-578-5.
 * Morgan, J. L. Pete. United States Military Patch Guide: Guide to United States Military Shoulder Sleeve Insignia. Fountain Inn, SC: MOA Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-884452-37-6.
 * Smith, Richard W.; Roy A. Pelz, ed. Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. Armed Forces 1941-1945. 3rd edition. United States: Richard W. Smith, 1981. ISBN 978-0-9618883-3-6.
 * Stein, Barry Jason. U.S. Army Patches, Flashes and Ovals: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cloth Unit Insignia. Revised edition. United States: Insignia Ventures, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791613-0-8.
 * Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II, Volume I: (VIII) Bomber Command. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7643-1987-7.
 * Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II, Volume II: (VIII) Fighter Command. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2006. ISBN 978-0-7643-2535-9.
 * Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume III: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Ninth Air Force in World War Two, The Orphan Air Force of the ETO. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7643-2938-8.
 * Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume IV: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7643-3401-6. (DAF, MAAF, 9th, 12th, 15th Air Forces)
 * Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume V: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II; Pacific Theater of Operations. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7643-4346-9. (5th, 7th, 11th, 13th, Far East Air Forces)
 * Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume VI: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S, Army Air Forces in World War II; China-Burma-India & The Western Pacific. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2017. ISBN 978-0-7643-5273-7. (AVG, Special Operations Units, 10th, 14th, 20th Air Forces)