Bibliography of World War II

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This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

The bibliography aims to include primary, secondary and tertiary sources regarding the European theatre of World War II (1939–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945). By extension, it includes works regarding the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Additionally, the scope of the bibliography expands to the causes of World War II and the immediate aftermath of World War II, such as evacuation and expulsion and war crimes trials (such as the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials). Works on the causes or the aftermath of World War II should only be included if they describe the respective events in the specific context of and relation to the conflict itself.

There are thousands of books written about World War II; therefore, this is not an all-inclusive list. This bibliography also does not aim to include fictional works (see World War II in popular culture). It does not aim to include self-published works, unless there is a very good reason to do so.

Origins of World War II[edit]

The following lists should include works of secondary literature that are concerned mainly with the origins of World War II in general or with the entry into World War II by one particular country.

  • Aldrich, Richard J. (1993). The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Baker, Nicholson (2006). Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Deighton, Len (1993). Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Del Boca, Angelo (1969). The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by Cummins, P. D. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Henig, Ruth (1985). The Origins of the Second World War 1933–1941. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-203-33227-X.
  • Ienaga, Saburo (1978). The Pacific War: 1931–45. New York: Pantheon.
  • Iriye, Akira (1987). The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. New York and London: Longman.
  • Johnson, Ian Ona (2021). Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-067514-1.
  • Martel, Gordon (1986). The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered. Routledge. ISBN 0-203-01024-8.
  • McDonough, Frank (2011). The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective. Continuum. ISBN 978-1-4411-0773-2.
  • Murray, Williamson (1984). The Change in the European Balance of Power 1938–1939. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Neville, Peter (2000). Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937–39. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-71495-4.
  • Overy, Richard (2022). The Origins of the Second World War (5th ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-96326-9.
  • Salerno, Reynolds Mathewson (2002). Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
  • Taylor, A. J. P. (1961). The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton.
  • Young, Robert J. (1996). France and the Origins of the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-24890-2.

Military history, by theater[edit]

Global military history[edit]

  • Bartrop, Paul R. (2022). The Routledge History of the Second World War. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-45535-3.
  • Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Bell, P. M. H. (2011). Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
  • Bess, Michael (2008). Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. New York: Vintage.
  • Boog, Horst; et al. (2001). Osers, Ewald (ed.). The Global War. Germany and the Second World War. Vol. VI. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 978-0-19-873830-5. OL 7397819M.
  • Buchanan, Andrew. "Globalizing the Second World War," Past and Present no. 258 (February 2023): 246–281. online; also see [1]
  • Burleigh, Michael (2010). Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Calvocoressi, Peter; Wint, Guy (1972). Total War: The Story of World War II. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-394-47104-4.
  • Commager, Henry Steele (1991). The Story of the Second World War. Washington DC: Brassey's. ISBN 978-0-08-041066-1.
  • Dear, I. C. B.; Foot, M. R. D., eds. (1995). The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Gilbert, Martin (1989). The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-0534-9.
  • Hanson, Victor Davis (2017). The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. New York: Basic Books.
  • Hastings, Max (2001). All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945. London: HarperCollins.
  • Keegan, John (1989). The Second World War. New York: Viking.
  • Kitchen, Martin (1990). A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London: Longman.
  • Lyons, Michael J. (1999). World War II: A Short History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
  • Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1990). Chronicle of the Second World War. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Group.
  • Murray, Williamson; Millett, Allan R. (2000). A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Harvard University Press.
  • Nardo, Don (2005). World War II. Detroit: Greenhaven Press.
  • Overy, Richard (1997). Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • ———, ed. (2015). The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. Oxford University Press.
  • ——— (2021). Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931–1945. New York: Viking.
  • Parker, R. A. C. (2002). Second World War: A Short History. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks.
  • Roberts, Andrew (2011). The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-122859-9.
  • Schreiber, Gerhard (2003). Der Zweite Weltkrieg [The Second World War] (in German). München: Verlag C.H.Beck.
  • Snyder, Louis L. (1982). Historical Guide to World War II. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
  • Stokesbury, James L. (1980). A Short History of World War II. New York: Morrow.
  • Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (2007). The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: A. A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26283-7. LCCN 2007003640. OCLC 209249990. OL 22764689M.
  • Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1994). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Willmott, H.P. (2008). The Great Crusade. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
  • Wright, Gordon (1968). The Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-131408-7.

Europe, by theater or front[edit]

Main article: Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

Asia, by theater or front[edit]

Main article: Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific

Military history, by type of warfare[edit]

Aerial warfare[edit]

For general histories of national air forces, check the "specific military branches" section. For development of airplanes and technical histories, check the "science and technology" section.

Aerial warfare by country[edit]

Germany[edit]
  • Williamson, Murray (1983). Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933–1945. Air University Press. ISBN 978-1-78625-770-3.
United States[edit]
  • Allen, Bruce (1943). Air Offense Against Germany. New York: Holt.
  • Cave, Hugh B. (1945). Wings across the World: The Story of Air Transport Command. New York: Dodd.

Kamikaze and suicide attacks[edit]

  • Rikihei, Inoguchi; Tadashi, Nakajima; Pineau, Roger (1958). The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books.

Strategic bombing, general[edit]

German strategic bombing of the United Kingdom[edit]
  • Lee, Asher (1960). Blitz on Britain. London: Four Square.
  • Mason, Francis K. (1969). Battle over Britain: a History of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917–18 and July–December 1940, and of the Development of Britain's air defences between the World Wars. London: McWhirter Twins.
  • Richards, James M., ed. (1947). The Bombed Buildings of Britain: A Record of the Architectural Casualties. London: Architectural Press.
  • Richards, William L. (1965). Pembrokeshire under fire: the story of the air-raids of 1940–41. Haverfordwest (Pembrokeshire): Hammond.
  • Shipley, Paul; Rankin, Howard (1945). Bristol's bombed churches: a descriptive and pictorial record of their histories and destruction. Bristol: Rankin.
  • Underdown, Thomas H. J. (1952). Bristol under blitz: the record of an ancient city and people during the battle of Britain, 1940–1. Bristol: Arrowsmith.
Western Allied strategic bombing of Germany and German-occupied Europe[edit]
  • Frankland, Noble (1965). The bombing offensive against Germany: outlines and perspectives. London: Faber & Faber.
  • ——— (1969). Bomber Offensive: the Devastation of Europe. New York: Ballantine.
  • Friedrich, Jörg. (2008). The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13380-7.
  • Middlebrook, Martin (2000). The Battle of Hamburg. London: Cassell.
  • ——— (2000). The Berlin Raids. London: Cassell.
  • ——— (1986). The Nuremberg Raid. London: Penguin.
  • Overy, Richard (2014). The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940–1945. New York: Viking.
  • Taylor, Frederick (2004). Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Webster, Charles; Frankland, Noble (1961). The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, 1939–1945. Vol. 1–4. London: HMSO.

Land warfare[edit]

For the history of specific theaters or specific units, see the respective sections.

Airborne warfare and paratroopers[edit]

  • Ayling, Keith (1944). They Fly to Fight: the Story of the Airborne Divisions. New York: Appleton.
  • Brammall, Ronald (1965). The Tenth: a Record of Service of the 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, 1942–1945, and the 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (T.A.) (county of London), 1947–1965. Ipswich: Eastgate.
  • Edwards, Roger (1974). German Airborne Troops, 1936–45. London: Macdonald & Janes.
  • Gavin, James M. (1947). Airborne Warfare. Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press.
  • Gregory, Barry (1974). British Airborne Troops. London: Macdonald & Janes.
  • Huston, James A. (1972). Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II. Lafayette: Purdue University Studies.
  • MacDonald, Charles B. (1969). By Air to Battle. New York: Ballantine.
  • ——— (1970). Airborne. New York: Ballantine.
  • Newnham, Maurice (1947). Prelude to Glory: the Story of the Creation of Britain's Parachute Army. London: Low.
  • Norton, Geoffrey G. (1971). The Red Devils: the Story of the British Airborne Forces. London: Cooper.
  • Sampson, Francis L. (1958). Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre. Washington DC: Catholic University of America.
  • Tugwell, Maurice (1971). Airborne to Battle: A History of Airborne Warfare, 1918–1971. Kimber.
  • Warren, John C. (1955). Airborne Missions in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. Washington DC: USAF Historical Division.
  • ——— (1956). Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theatre. Washington DC: USAF Historical Division.
  • Whiting, Charles (1974). Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps, 1941–1945. New York: Stein & Day.

Amphibious warfare and naval infantry[edit]

For histories of the United States Marine Corps, see the respective section under in the specific branches section.

  • Burton, Earl (1944). By Sea and by Land: The Story of our Amphibious Forces. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Anti-aircraft warfare[edit]

  • Watkins, J. H.; Leslie, Donald (1955). On Target: A Souvenir of 'Ack-Ack'. London: Territorial. – Released in 1955 upon the disbandment of the British Anti-Aircraft Command.

Armored cars[edit]

  • Milsom, John; Chamberlain, Peter (1974). German Armoured Cars of Two World Wars. London: Arms & Armour.
  • Warwick, Nigel W. M. (2014). In Every Place: The RAF Armoured Cars in the Middle East 1921–1953. Rushden: Forces & Corporate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9574725-2-5.

Armored warfare and tank forces[edit]

  • Battistelli, Pier Paolo (2007). Panzer Divisions: The Blitzkrieg Years 1939–40. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-146-5.
  • Bradford, George (1974). Armour Camouflage and Markings, North Africa 1940–1943. London: Arms & Armour.
  • Crow, Duncan (1972). British and Commonwealth Armoured Formations (1919–46). Windsor (Berkshire): Profile.
  • Martel, Giffard Le. Q. (1945). Our [British] Armoured Forces. London: Faber.
  • Windrow, Martin (1982). The Panzer Divisions. Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-165-X.
  • Zaloga, Steven J. (1995). Tank Battles of the Pacific War 1941–1945. Concord Publications.

Artillery[edit]

  • Bidwell, Shelford (1970). Gunners at War: A Tactical Study of the Royal Artillery in the Twentieth Century. London: Arms & Armour.
  • Duncan, William E.; et al., eds. (1950). The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book, 1939–1945. London: Bell.
  • Hogg, Ian V. (1974). German Artillery of World War Two. London: Arms & Armour.
  • McLean, Donald B., ed. (1973). Japanese Artillery: Weapons and Tactics. Wickenburg (Arizona): Normount Technical.

Military fortifications[edit]

  • Kaufmann, J. E.; Jurga, Robert M. (1999). Fortress Europe, European Fortifications of World War II. London: Greenhill Books.

Naval warfare[edit]

General[edit]

  • Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Faulkner, Marcus & Wilkinson, Peter (2012). War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
  • Ireland, Bernard (1998). Jane's Naval History of World War II. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-472143-8.
  • Miller, Nathan (1995). War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.

Aircraft carriers[edit]

  • Brown, David (1974). Carrier Operations in World War II. Vol. 1–2. London: Allan.
  • Bryan, Joseph (1954). Aircraft Carrier. New York: Ballantine.
  • Dildy, Douglas C. (2022). German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-4677-8.
  • Gilbert, Price (1946). The Escort Carriers in Action: The Story in Pictures of the Escort Carrier Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1945, with a Supplement for the Flagship U.S.S. Makin Island. Atlanta, GA: Ruralist.
  • Jensen, Oliver O. (1945). Carrier War. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • MacIntyre, Donald (1968). Aircraft Carriers. New York: Ballantine.
  • Woolridge, E. T., ed. (1993). Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Convoys[edit]

  • Woodman, Richard (1996). Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. London: John Murray Publications.

Naval battles, Pacific (1941–1945)[edit]

  • Cutler, Thomas J. (1994). The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23–26 October 1944. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Lindemann, Klaus (1982). Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon. Singapore: Maruzen Asia.
  • Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony (2005). Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
  • Prange, Gordon W. (1982). Miracle at Midway. McGraw-Hill.
  • Symonds, Craig L. (2013). The Battle of Midway. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Submarine warfare[edit]

  • Blair, Clay (1996). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942. New York: Random House.
  • ——— (1998). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945. New York: Random House.
  • ——— (1975). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co. ISBN 978-0-397-00753-0.
  • Caulfield, Max (1958). A Night of Terror: The Story of the Athenia Affair. London: Muller. – About the sinking of SS Athenia by U30.
  • Carpenter, Dorr; Polmar, Norman (1986). Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Paterson, Lawrence (2022). The U-Boat War: A Global History, 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-4825-3.
  • Roscoe, Theodore (1949). United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute.

Military history, by national militaries and national military branches[edit]

National militaries[edit]

Canada[edit]

  • Hill, B. Kirkbride, ed. (1943). The price for freedom: a written and photographic record of over 500 of those who lost their lives in the Second World War while serving in the Armed Forces of Canada, Sept. 1939 to June 1942. Toronto: Ryerson.

Germany[edit]

  • Mitcham, Samuel W. (1985). Hitler's Legions: The German Army Order of Battle, World War II. Stein & Days Publishing. ISBN 0-8128-2992-1.
  • Jurado, Carlos Cabellero (1983). Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45. Osprey Military. ISBN 0-85045-524-3.
  • Thomas, Nigel (1992). Wehrmacht Auxiliary Forces. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-257-8.

Poland, whole military[edit]

  • Zaloga, Steven J. (1982). The Polish Army 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-417-4.

Soviet Union, whole military[edit]

  • Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
  • ——— (2005). Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Krivosheev, Grigori F. (1993). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. Stackpole Books.

United Kingdom, whole military[edit]

  • Joslen, H. F. (1960). Orders of Battle: U.K., and Colonial Formations and Units in the 2nd World War, 1939–1945. London: HMSO.

United States, whole military[edit]

  • Wise, Terence (1973). American military camouflage and markings, 1939–1945. London: Almark.

Specific military branches[edit]

Australia, military branches[edit]

Australian Army[edit]
  • Keogh, Eustace G. (1959). Middle East, 1939–1943. Melbourne: Wilkie.
  • ——— (1965). South West Pacific, 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower.
Royal Australian Navy[edit]
  • Feakes, Henry J. (1952). White Ensign, Southern Cross: A Story of the King's Ship of Australia's Navy. Sydney: Smith.
  • Gill, George H. (1957). Royal Australian Navy. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
  • Jones, Thomas M.; Idriess, I. L. (1952). The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy. London: Angus & Robertson.
  • Walker, Allan S.; et al. (1961). Medical Services of the R.A.N. and R.A.A.F. with Section on Women in the Army Medical Services. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
Royal Australian Air Force[edit]
  • Beede, John (1968). They hosed them out: a Story of Australian Gunners in the R.A.F. Sydney: Horwitz.
  • Gillison, Douglas (1962). Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–1942. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
  • Herington, John (1954). Air War against Germany and Italy, 1939–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
  • Odgers, George (1957). Air War against Japan, 1943–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
  • Powell, George G. (1945). Two Steps to Tokyo: A Story of the R.A.A.F. in the Trobriand and Admiralty Islands. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  • Walker, Allan S.; et al. (1961). Medical Services of the R.A.N. and R.A.A.F. with Section on Women in the Army Medical Services. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
  • Waters, John C. A. (1945). Valiant Youth: The Men of the R.A.A.F. Sydney: Johnston.

Belgium, military branches[edit]

Belgian Army[edit]
  • Belgian-American Educational Foundation (1940). The Belgian campaign and the surrender of the Belgian Army, May 10–28, 1940. New York: Belgian-American Educational Foundation.

Canada, military branches[edit]

Canadian Army[edit]
  • Burns, Eedson L. M. (1956). Manpower in the Canadian Army, 1939–1945. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
  • ——— (1970). General Mud. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
  • Cosgrove, Edmund (1970). The Evaders. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
  • Londerville, J. D. (1950). The Pay Services of the Canadian Army overseas in the War of 1939–45. Ottawa: Runge.
  • Munro, Ross (1945). Gauntlet to Overlord: the Story of the Canadian Army. Toronto: Macmillan.
  • Stacey, Charles P., ed. (1945–1946). The Canadian Army at War. Vol. 1–3. King's Printer.
  • ——— (1946). Canada's Battle in Normandy. Ottawa: King's Printer.
  • ———, ed. (1957–1960). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Vol. 1–3. King's Printer.
  • Whitcombe, Fred, ed. (1947). The Pictorial History of Canada's Army overseas, 1939–1945. Toronto: McClelland.
Royal Canadian Air Force[edit]
  • Cosgrove, Edmund (1965). Canada's fighting pilots. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
  • Coughlin, Tom (1968). The Dangerous Sky: Canadian Airmen in World War II. London: Kimber.
  • Griffin, D. F. (1944). First steps to Tokyo: the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Aleutians. New York: Dent.
  • McMillan, Don A. (1944). Only the stars know. London: Dent.
  • ——— (1949). The R.C.A.F. overseas: the fifth year. London: Dent.
Royal Canadian Navy[edit]
  • Milne, Gilbert A. (1960). H.M.C.S. Toronto: T. Allen.
  • Schull, Joseph (1952). The Far Distant Ships: an Official Account of Canadian Naval Operations in the Second World War. Ottawa: Cloutier.
  • ——— (1963). Ships of the Great Days: Canada's Navy in World War II. London: Macmillan.

France, military branches[edit]

French Army[edit]
  • Sumner, Ian (1998–2000). The French Army 1939–45. Vol. 1–2. Osprey Military. ISBN 1-85532-666-3.

Germany, military branches[edit]

German Air Force (Luftwaffe)[edit]
  • Gurtner, René (August 1956). "Deutsche Luftwaffen-Felddivisionen im Weltkrieg 1939–1945" [German Luftwaffe Field Divisions in the World War 1939–1945]. Allgemeine schweizerische Militärzeitschrift (in German). 122 (8): 592–608.
  • Williamson, Murray (1983). Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933–1945. Air University Press. ISBN 978-1-78625-770-3.
German Army (Heer)[edit]
  • Chamberlain, Peter, ed. (1972). Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW2. Bukupedia.
Waffen-SS[edit]
  • Wagner, Bernd (1982). Hitlers Politische Soldaten: Die Waffen-SS 1933–1945. Leitbild, Struktur und Funktion einer nationalsozialistischen Elite [Hitler's Political Soldiers: The Waffen-SS 1933–1945. Mission Statement, Structure and Function of a National Socialist Elite] (in German). Ferdinand Schöningh. ISBN 978-3-506-76313-6.
  • Windrow, Martin (1982). The Waffen-SS. Osprey Military. ISBN 0-85045-425-5.

Japan, military branches[edit]

Imperial Japanese Army[edit]
  • Drea, Edward J. (2003). In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Imperial Japanese Navy[edit]

New Zealand, military branches[edit]

Royal New Zealand Navy[edit]
  • Jones, Thomas M.; Idriess, I. L. (1952). The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy. London: Angus & Robertson.

United Kingdom, military branches[edit]

British Army[edit]
  • Barclay, Cyril N. (1964). On their shoulders: British generalship in the lean years, 1939–1942. London: Faber.
  • Charteris, John (1945). The British Army today. New York: British Information Service.
  • DeGuingand, Francis (1964). Generals at War. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  • Golding, Claud (1944). Footslogging it to Berlin: being a record of the valour of British Infantrymen in the present war. London: Blandford.
  • Sheppard, Eric W.; Yeats-Brown, Francis C. C. (1941–1947). The Army: a complete record in text and pictures. Vol. 1–5. London: Hutchinson.
  • Wilkinson, Frederick (1969). Badges of the British Army, 1820–1960. London: Arms & Armour.
  • Yeats-Brown, Francis C. C. (1941). The Army from September 1939 to December 1940. London: Hutchinson.
Royal Navy[edit]
  • Hodges, Peter (1973). Royal Navy warships camouflage, 1939–1945. London: Almark.
  • Raven, Alan (1972). King George the Fifth class battleships. London: Bivouac.
Royal Air Force[edit]
  • Goulding, James (1971). Camouflage and markings: R.A.F. Fighter Command, Northern Europe, 1936–1945. London: Ducimus.

United States, military branches[edit]

U.S. Army Air Forces[edit]
U.S. Army (without USAAF)[edit]
U.S. Marine Corps[edit]
  • Rottman, Gordon L. (2002). U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
U.S. Navy[edit]

Military history, by specific military units, formations and warships[edit]

Main articles: Bibliography of World War II military units and formations and Bibliography of World War II warships

Military history, war crimes[edit]

Works that are mainly concerned with war crimes trials and persecution of war criminals after the conclusion of the war should be placed in the appropriate list in the "Aftermath of World War" section.

Allied war crimes[edit]

American war crimes[edit]

  • Lily, J. Robert (2007). Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe in World War II. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Soviet war crimes[edit]

  • Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Axis war crimes[edit]

Croatian war crimes[edit]

  • Paris, Edmond (1962). Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945: A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. Chicago: American Institute for Balkan Affairs.

German war crimes[edit]

See also: Bibliography of The Holocaust
  • Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • Davidowicz, Lucy S. (1975). The War Against the Jews 1933–1945. Open Road. ISBN 978-0-03-013661-0.
  • Fritz, Stephen G. (2011). Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
  • Gallagher, Richard (1964). The Malmedy Massacre. New York: Paperback Library.
  • Gutman, Yisrael (1994). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-32684-2.
  • Heer, Hannes (1995). Vernichtungskrieg: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht [War of Annihilation: Wehrmacht Crimes] (in German). Zweitausendeins. ISBN 978-3-930908-04-2.
  • Lifton, Robert Jay (1986). The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Basic Books.
  • Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2006). War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Nałkowska, Zofia (1999). Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press.
  • Shepard, Ben (2005). After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-07355-4.
  • Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.
  • Whiting, Charles (1971). Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December 1944. London: Cooper.

Military history, occupation and occupied territories[edit]

  • Connor, Sydney; Friedrich, Carl J. (1950). Military Government. Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science.
  • Gulick, Luther H. (1959). Administrative Reflections from World War II. Alabama University Press.
  • Taylor, Philip H.; Braibanti, Ralph (1948). Administration of Occupied Area: a Study Guide. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

American occupation[edit]

Occupation after 1945 should be covered in the postwar section.

  • Friedrich, Carl J. (1948). American Experiences in Military Government. New York: Rinehart.
  • Holbjorn, Halo (1947). American Military Government: its Organization and Policies. Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press.
  • Maginnis, John J. (1971). Military Government Journal: Normandy to Berlin. Amherst, MA: Massachusetts University Press.

American occupation of Italy until 1945[edit]

  • Harris, Charles R. S. (1958). Allied Military Administration of Italy, 1943–1945. HMSO.

British occupation[edit]

Occupation after 1945 should be covered in the postwar section.

  • Donnison, Frank S. V. (1956). British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943–46. London: HMSO.
  • Rennel, Francis J. (1948). British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa during the Years 1941–1947. London: HMSO.

British occupation of Italy until 1945[edit]

  • Harris, Charles R. S. (1958). Allied Military Administration of Italy, 1943–1945. HMSO.

German occupation[edit]

  • Blood, Phillip W. (2006). Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
  • Fritzsche, Peter (2016). An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler. New York: Basic Books.
  • Gregor, Neil, ed. (2008). Nazism, War and Genocide. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • Hale, Christopher (2011). Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret. The History Press.
  • Littlejohn, David (1972). The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940–45. London: Heinemann.
  • Mazower, Mark (2008). Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-188-2.

German occupation of Belgium[edit]

  • Goris, Johannes A., ed. (1943). Belgium in bondage. New York: Fischer.
  • ———, ed. (1947). Belgium under occupation. New York: Fischer.
  • Methuen, Paul A. (1952). Normandy Diary: Being a Record of Survivals and Losses of Historical Monuments in Northwest France, together with those of the Island of Walcheren and in that Part of Belgium traversed by the 21st Army Group in 1944–45. London: Hale.

German occupation of Denmark[edit]

German occupation of France[edit]

  • Burrin, Philippe (1993). France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise. New York: New Press.
  • Methuen, Paul A. (1952). Normandy Diary: Being a Record of Survivals and Losses of Historical Monuments in Northwest France, together with those of the Island of Walcheren and in that Part of Belgium traversed by the 21st Army Group in 1944–45. London: Hale.

German occupation of Italy[edit]

  • Fasola, Cesare (1945). The Florence Galleries and the War: History and Records with a List of Missing Works of Art. Florence: Casa Editrice Monsalvato.
  • Hartt, Frederick (1949). Florentine Art under Fire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Jenkinson, Hilary; Bell, H. E. (1947). Italian Archives during the War and at its Close. London: HMSO.
  • Lavagnino, Emilio (1947). Fifty War-Damaged Monuments of Italy. London: HMSO.

German occupation of Norway[edit]

German occupation of Poland[edit]

  • Winstone, Martin (2015). The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government. New York: I. B. Tauris.

German occupation of the Soviet Union[edit]

  • Berkhoff, Karel C. (2004). Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Dallin, Alexander (1981). German Rule in Russia 1941–1945. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
  • Shepherd, Ben (2004). War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

German occupation of Yugoslavia[edit]

  • Thomas, Nigel (1995). Axis Forces In Yugoslavia 1941–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-473-3.

Japanese occupation[edit]

Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)[edit]

  • Benda, Harry J.; et al., eds. (1965). Japanese military administration in Indonesia. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Military history, other[edit]

Colonial troops[edit]

  • Salmon, E. Marling (1952). Beyond the Call of Duty: African Deeds of Bravery in Wartime. London: Macmillan.

United Kingdom, colonial troops[edit]

  • Bent, Rowland A. R. (1952). Ten thousand men of Africa: the story of the Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners, 1941–1946. London: HMSO. – Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) forces
  • Gray, Brian (1953). Basuto Soldiers in Hitler's War. Maseru: Basutoland Government. – Basutoland (Lesotho)
  • Jackson, Henry C. (1954). The Fighting Sudanese. London: Macmillan. – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
  • Schmitt, Deborah Ann (2005). The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-97905-8. – Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) forces

Grand strategy[edit]

Allied grand strategy[edit]

Axis grand strategy[edit]

  • Knox, MacGregor (1982). Mussolini Unleashed, 1939–1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33835-2.
  • Mallmann, Klaus-Michael; Cüppers, Martin (2010). Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Translated by Smith, Krista. New York: Enigma.
  • Paine, S. C. M. (2017). The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67616-9.

Insignia and military symbols[edit]

  • Bowyer, Michael J. F. (1973). Bombing Colours: RAF bombers, their marking and operations, 1937–1973. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens.
  • Cole, Howard N. (1946). Heraldry in War: Formation Badges, 1939–1945. Gale & Polden: Aldershot.
  • Kerrigan, Evans E. (1967). American Badges and Insignia. New York: Viking.
  • Rosignoli, Guido (1972). Army Badges and Insignia of World War 2: Great Britain, Poland, Belgium, Italy, U.S.S.R., U.S.A., Germany. London: Blandford.
  • Wilkinson, Frederick (1969). Badges of the British Army, 1820–1960. London: Arms & Armour.

Prisoners of war[edit]

Resistance[edit]

  • Kochanski, Halik (2022). Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945. Liveright.

National and regional histories of World War II[edit]

The following lists should include works focussed mainly on the history of a particular nation, state, or country during World War II. Histories of sovereign states as well as of colonial subjects and of cultural regions are of interest. Histories concerned with a particular theater of war should be placed in military history. For instance, a history of Poland during World War II should be placed in this section, but a history on 1939 invasion should be placed in the respective segment in the military history section.

Africa[edit]

Colonial names should be sorted alphabetically after their colonial name without colonial overlord identifiers. Colonial identifiers should be added with a comma, current countries names should be placed in brackets.

General[edit]

  • Killingray, David (1986). Africa and the Second World War. St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-7110-2853-1.
  • Salmon, E. Marling (1952). Beyond the Call of Duty: African Deeds of Bravery in Wartime. London: Macmillan.

Basutoland, British (Lesotho)[edit]

  • Gray, Brian (1953). Basuto Soldiers in Hitler's War. Maseru: Basutoland Government.

Bechuanaland, British (Botswana)[edit]

  • Bent, Rowland A. R. (1952). Ten thousand men of Africa: the story of the Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners, 1941–1946. London: HMSO.
  • Schmitt, Deborah Ann (2005). The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-97905-8.

Ethiopia/Abyssinia[edit]

  • Del Boca, Angelo (1969). The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by Cummins, P. D. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Dower, Kenneth C. G. (1949). Abyssinian Patchwork: an Anthology. Muller.
  • Pankhurst, E. Sylvia; Pankhurst, Richard (1954). Ethiopia and Eritrea: the Last Phase of the Reunion Struggle, 1941–1952. Woodford Green (Essex): Lakilela.

North Africa, French (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia)[edit]

  • Goda, Norman J. W. (1998). Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

Northern Rhodesia, British (Zambia)[edit]

  • Brelsford, William V., ed. (1954). The Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. Lusaka: Government Printer.

South Africa[edit]

  • Tinley, James M. (1954). South African Food and Agriculture in World War II. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Asia[edit]

Note that the Middle East has its own section.

China[edit]

  • Brook, Timothy (2005). Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press.
  • Hsiung, James C.; Levine, Steven I. (1992). China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937–1945. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
  • Liu, Xiaoyuan (1996). A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mitter, Rana (2013). Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Peattie, Mark; Drea, Edward; Ven, Hans Van De, eds. (2011). The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
  • Plating, John D. (2011). The Hump: America's Strategy for Keeping China in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
  • Sih, Paul K. T., ed. (1977). Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press.
  • Taylor, Jay (2009). The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Tuchman, Barbara (1972). Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911–1945. New York: Bantam.
  • History of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Translated by Ha-hsiung, Wen. Tapei: Chung Wu Publishing Co. 1971.
  • Yamaguchi, Noburu (2012). "An Unexpected Encounter with Hybrid Warfare: The Japanese Experience in North China, 1937–1945". In Murray, Williamson; Mansoor, Peter R. (eds.). Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

India, British[edit]

  • Tomlinson, Brian R. (1979). Political Economy of the Raj 1914–1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-22361-6.

Indochina, French (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)[edit]

  • Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R. (2006). The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Iraq[edit]

  • Silverfarb, Daniel (1986). Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq 1929–1941. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503997-1.
  • Tarbush, Mohammed (1982). The Role of the Military in Politics: A Case Study of Iraq to 1941. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-92582-3.

Japan[edit]

  • Allen, Louis (1971). "Notes on Japanese Historiography: World War II". Military Affairs. 35 (4): 133–138. doi:10.2307/1984792. JSTOR 1984792.
  • Barnhart, Michael A. (1987). Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9529-8.
  • Carpenter, Dorr; Polmar, Norman (1986). Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Cohen, Jerome B. (1949). Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Cook, Haruko Taya; Cook, Theodore F., eds. (1992). Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-039-3.
  • Deacon, Richard (1982). A History of the Japanese Secret Service. London: Fredrick Muller.
  • Drea, Edward J. (2009). Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
  • Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
  • Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R., eds. (1996). The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Goldstein, D. M.; Dillon, K. V., eds. (2004). The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II. Dulles, Virginia: Brasseys.
  • Gruhl, Werner (2007). Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931–1945. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
  • Harries, Meirion; Harries, Susie (1994). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House.
  • Hayashi, Saburo and Alvin D. Coox. (1978). Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
  • Hotta, E (2007). Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931–1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ienaga, Saburō (1978). The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon.
  • Ike, Nobutaka, ed. (1967). Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
  • Jones, Francis Clifford (1954). Japan's New Order in East Asia: Its Rise and Fall. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Koshiro, Yukiko (2001). "Japan's World and World War II". Diplomatic History. 25 (3): 425–441. doi:10.1111/0145-2096.00276. JSTOR 24914126.
  • ——— (2004). "Eurasian eclipse: Japan's end game in World War II". American Historical Review. 109 (2): 417–444. doi:10.1086/530338. JSTOR 10.1086/530338.
  • ——— (2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press.
  • Rikihei, Inoguchi; Tadashi, Nakajima; Pineau, Roger (1958). The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books.
  • Storry, George Richard (1979). Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia 1894–1943. London: Longman.
  • Utley, Jonathan G. (2005). Going to War with Japan 1937–1941. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Willmott, H. P. (1982). Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
  • ——— (2008). The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies February to June 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.

Thailand[edit]

  • Aldrich, Richard J. (1993). The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Reynolds, E. Bruce (2005). Thailand's Secret War: The Free Thais, OSS, and SOE during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

The Americas[edit]

Argentina[edit]

  • Francis, Michael J. (1977). The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press.
  • Frank, Gary (1979). Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami: University of Miami Press.
  • Newton, Ronald C. (1992). The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931–1947. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Brazil[edit]

  • Frank, Gary (1979). Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami: University of Miami Press.
  • McCann, Frank D. Jr. (1973). The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Canada[edit]

  • Armstrong, Elizabeth H. (1942). French Canadian opinion on the war, January, 1940 – June, 1941. Toronto: Hyerson.
  • Britnell, George; Fowke, Vernon C. (1962). Canadian Agriculture in War and Peace. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
  • Dawson, Robert M. (1961). The Conscription Crisis of 1944. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
  • Dziuban, Stanley W. (1959). Military relations between the United States and Canada, 1939–1945. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army.
  • Engen, Robert (2009). Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Montreal: MQUP.
  • Feasby, W. R., ed. (1953–1956). Official History of the Canadian Medical Services, 1939–1945. Vol. 1–2. Ottawa: Queen's Printer.
  • Granatstein, Jack L. (1969). Conscription in the Second World War, 1939–1945: a Study in Political Management. Toronto: Ryerson.
  • Kennedy, John de N. (1950). History of the Department of Munitions and Supply: Canada in the Second World War. Ottawa: King's Printer.
  • King, William L. M. (1941). Canada at Britain's side. London: Macmillan.
  • ——— (1945). Canada and the Fight for Freedom. New York: Duell.
  • LaVoilette, Forrest E. (1948). Canadian Japanese and World War II: a sociological and psychological account. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
  • Malone, Richard S. (1946). Missing from the Record. Toronto: Collins.
  • Pickersgill, J. W. (1960). The Mackenzie King record. Toronto: Toronto University Press.

Chile[edit]

  • Francis, Michael J. (1977). The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press.

United States[edit]

  • Abrahamson, James L. (1983). The American Homefront: Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II. National Defense University Press.
  • Adams, Michael C.C. (1993). The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press.
  • Andrade, Dale (1996). Luzon: The United States Army Campaigns of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
  • Baer, George W. (1994). One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890–1990. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
  • Bentley, Amy (1998). Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Bernstein, Alison R. (1991). American Indians and World War II. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Binns, Stewart; Wood, Adrian (2001). America at War in Color: Unique Images of the American Experience of World War II. London: Carlton. ISBN 978-1-84222-349-9. OCLC 47992974.
  • Blum, John Morton (1976). V was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II. New York: Harcourt Brace.
  • Breitman, Richard; Goda, Norman J. W.; Naftali, Timothy; Wolfe, Robert (2005). U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511618178. ISBN 978-0-521-61794-9.
  • Campbell, D'Ann. (1984). Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Clay, Blair Jr. (2001). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute.
  • Cole, Wayne S. (1957). "American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal". Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 43 (4): 595–617. doi:10.2307/1902275. JSTOR 1902275.
  • Cooke, Alistair (2006). The American Home Front, 1941–1942. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
  • Crane, Conrad C. (1993). Bombs, Cities, and Civilians: American Airpower Strategy in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Dallek, Robert (1995). Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945. NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Doenecke, Justus D. (1979). "Beyond Polemics: An Historiographical Re-Appraisal of American Entry into World War II". History Teacher. 12 (2): 217–251. doi:10.2307/491983. JSTOR 491983.
  • Doherty, Thomas (1993). Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Dziuban, Stanley W. (1959). Military relations between the United States and Canada, 1939–1945. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army.
  • Erenberg, Lewis A.; Hirsch, Susan E., eds. (1996). The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness during World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Francis, Michael J. (1977). The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press.
  • Frank, Gary (1979). Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami: University of Miami Press.
  • Friedrich, Carl J. (1948). American Experiences in Military Government. New York: Rinehart.
  • Greenfield, Kent R. (1979). American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
  • Hassel, Agostino von; MacRae, Sigrid; Amerskamp, Simone (2006). Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II. New York: Thomas Dunne. ISBN 978-0-312-32369-1.
  • Hearden, Patrick J. (1987). Roosevelt confronts Hitler: America's Entry into World War II. Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-87580-124-2.
  • Henderson, Aileen Kilgore (2001). Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.
  • Herman, Arthur (2012). Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. New York: Random House.
  • Holm, Jeanne M., ed. (1998). In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II. Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press.
  • Jeffries, John W. (1996). Wartime America: The World War II Homefront. Chicago: I.R. Dee.
  • Jones, John B. (2006). The Songs That Fought the War: Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939–1945. Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University Press.
  • Jordan, Jonathan W. (2015). American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America to Victory in World War II. New York: NAL Caliber.
  • Kennedy, David M. (1999). Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Kennedy, Paul (2013). Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War.
  • Kennedy, Thomas C. (1963). "Charles A. Beard and the "Court Historians"". Historian. 25 (4): 439–450. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1963.tb00227.x. JSTOR 24442426.
  • Kennett, Lee (1987). G.I.: The American Soldier in World War II. New York: Schribner.
  • Krammer, Arnold (1996). Nazi Prisoners of War in America. Lanham, Maryland: Scarborough House.
  • Kühl, Stefan (2002). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Lily, J. Robert (2007). Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe in World War II. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Linderman, Gerald F. (1997). The World within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-82797-1.
  • Litoff, Judy Barett; Smith, David C., eds. (1994). We're in this War Too: World War II Letters from Women in Uniform. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Malkin, Michelle (2004). In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing.
  • Miller, Donald L. (2006). Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Minear, Richard H. (1996). Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel. New York: New Press.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot (1963). The Two-Ocean War. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
  • Motley, Mary Penick (1975). The Invisible Soldier: The Experience of the Black Soldiers in World War II. Detroit: Wayne State University press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1550-7.
  • Okihiro, Gary Y. (1996). Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
  • O'Neill, William L. (1993). A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. New York: Free Press.
  • Province, Charles M. (1991). Patton's Third Army: A Chronicle of the Third Army Advance, August, 1944 to May, 1945. New York: Hippocrene Books.
  • Samuel, Lawrence R. (1996). Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1-56098-707-9.
  • Stoler, Mark A. (2000). Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Terkel, Studs (1984). "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-394-53103-8.
  • Roscoe, Theodore (1949). United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute.
  • Weigley, Russell (1974). Eisenhower's Lieutenants. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.

Europe[edit]

Austria[edit]

Austria was part of Germany between 1938 and 1945 (see: Anschluss). This section contains books relevant specifically to that segment of the German Reich in the timeframe or to the postwar Republic of Austria in its relationship to World War II.

  • Art, David (2006). The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85683-6.
  • Pauley, Bruce F. (2000). From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6376-3.
  • Steininger, Wolf (2008). Austria, Germany, and the Cold War: from the Anschluss to the State Treaty 1938–1955. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-326-8.

Belgium[edit]

  • Belgian-American Educational Foundation (1940). The Belgian campaign and the surrender of the Belgian Army, May 10–28, 1940. New York: Belgian-American Educational Foundation.
  • Goris, Johannes A., ed. (1943). Belgium in bondage. New York: Fischer.
  • ———, ed. (1947). Belgium under occupation. New York: Fischer.

Bulgaria[edit]

  • Miller, Marshall Lee (1975). Bulgaria during the Second World War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0870-3.
  • Rachev, Stoyan (1981). Anglo-Bulgarian Relations during the Second World War, 1939–1944. Translated by Kostov, Stefan. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia.

Croatia[edit]

  • Paris, Edmond (1962). Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945: A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. Chicago: American Institute for Balkan Affairs.
  • Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. (2007). The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45. London: Routledge.

Denmark[edit]

Estonia[edit]

  • Corum, James S.; et al., eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
  • Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.

Finland[edit]

  • Berry, R. Michael (1987). American Foreign Policy and the Finnish Exception: Ideological Preferences and Wartime Realities. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society.
  • Krosby, H. Peter (1968). Finland, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940–1941: The Petsamo Dispute. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-05140-2.
  • Lunde, Henrik O. (2011). Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II. Havertown, Pennsylvania: Casemate.
  • Lundin, Charles Leonard (1957). Finland in the Second World War. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
  • Menger, M (1988). Deutschland und Finnland im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Berlin: Militärverlag.
  • Vehviläinen, Olli (2002). Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan.

France[edit]

Germany[edit]

See also: List of books about Nazi Germany

For books specifically about German-owned Austria between 1938 and 1945, see the "Austria" section.

Hungary[edit]

  • Cornelius, Deborah S. (2011). Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • Dreisziger, Nandor F., ed. (1983). Hungary and the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Fenyo, Mario D. (1972). Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  • Macartney, Carlile A. (1956–1957). October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929–1945. Edinburgh: University Press.

Ireland[edit]

Italy (Kingdom)[edit]

Latvia[edit]

  • Corum, James S.; et al., eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
  • Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.

Lithuania[edit]

  • Corum, James S.; et al., eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
  • Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.

Netherlands[edit]

Norway[edit]

Poland[edit]

See also: Bibliography of Poland during World War II
  • Garliriski, Jozef (1985). Poland in the Second World War. New York: Hippocrene.
  • Kochanski, Halik (2014). The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
  • Lukas, Richard C. (1978). The Strange Allies: The United States and Poland, 1941–1945. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-229-7.
  • Nałkowska, Zofia (1999). Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press.
  • Prażmovska, Anita J. (1995). Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Terry, Sarah Meiklejohn (1983). Poland's Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939–1943. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Portugal[edit]

  • Vintras, Roland E. (1974). The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History of the Azores Base. London: Bachman and Turner.
  • Weber, Ronald (2011). The Lisbon Route: Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe. Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee.
  • Weiss, Kenneth G. (1980). The Azores in Diplomacy and Strategy, 1940–1945. Alexandria, Virginia: Institute of Naval Studies, Center for Naval Analysis.

Romania[edit]

  • Axworthy, Mark; Scafes, Cornel I.; Crăciunoiu, Cristian (1995). Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. London: Arms and Armour.
  • Deletant, Dennis (2006). Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Giurescu, Dinu C. (2000). Romania in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs.
  • Glantz, David M. (2007). Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

Soviet Union[edit]

Main articles: Bibliography of the Soviet Union during World War II and Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
  • Andreyev, Catherine (1987). Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement, Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
  • Applebaum, Anne (2003). Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. New York: Doubleday.
  • Armstrong, Richard N. (2008). Soviet Operational Deception: The Red Cloak. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.
  • Bacon, Edwin (1994). The Gulag at War: Stalin's Forced Labour System in Light of the Archives. New York: New York Univ. Press.
  • Barber, John and Mark Harrison. (1991). The Soviet Home Front, 1941–1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II. London: Longman.
  • Bellamy, Chris (2007). Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Davies, R. W. (1998). Soviet economic development from Lenin to Khrushchev. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-62260-8.
  • Dunn, Walter S. (2006). Stalin's Keys to Victory: The Rebirth of the Red Army. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International.
  • Ellis, Frank (2011). The Damned and the Dead: The Eastern Front through the Eyes of Soviet and Russian Novelists. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
  • Glantz, David M. (2005). Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Gorbachevsky, Boris (2008). Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Gordin, I., ed. (2005). Nasha voina [Our War] (in Russian). Saint Petersburg: Izd-vo zhurnala "Zvezda".
  • Gorodetsky, Gabriel (1999). The Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  • Haslam, Jonathan (1984). The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe: 1933–39. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-17601-4.
  • Hill, Alexander (2017). The Red Army and the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hill, Alexander (2005). The War Behind the Eastern Front: The Soviet Partisan Movement in North-West Russia, 1941–1944. Abingdon, Oxon: Frank Cass.
  • Krivosheev, G. F., ed. (1997). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. London: Greenhill.
  • Krylova, Anna (2010). Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • McMeekin, Sean (2021). Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. New York: Basic Books.
  • Merridale, Catherine (2006). Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945. New York: Picador.
  • Miner, Steven Merritt (2003). Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Overy, Richard (1998). Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort: 1941–1945. New York: Penguin Books.
  • Overy, Richard (2006). The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Parrish, Michael (1996). The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939–1953. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
  • Reese, Roger R. (1996). Stalin's Reluctant Soldiers: A Social History of the Red Army 1925–1941. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Reese, Roger R. (2011). Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
  • Seaton, Albert (1976). Stalin as Warlord. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-3078-3.
  • Shukman, Harold, ed. (1993). Stalin's Generals. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
  • Snyder, Timothy (2010). Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books.
  • Snyder, Timothy; Brandon, Ray, eds. (2014). Stalin and Europe: Imitation and Domination, 1928–1953. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Statiev, Alexander (2010). The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stephan, Robert W. (2004). Stalin's Secret War: Soviet Counterintelligence Against the Nazis, 1941–1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
  • Stone, David R., ed. (2010). The Soviet Union at War, 1941–1945. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword.
  • Suvorov, Victor (2008). The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
  • Uldricks, Teddy J. (2009). "War, Politics and Memory: Russian Historians Reevaluate the Origins of World War II". History and Memory. 21 (2): 60–82. doi:10.2979/his.2009.21.2.60. S2CID 153650494. – historiography
  • Wegner, Bernd, ed. (1997). From Peace to War: Germany, Soviet Russia, and the World, 1939–1941. Oxford: Berghahn.
  • Weiner, Amir (2001). Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
  • Werth, Alexander (1964). Russia at War, 1941–1945. London: Barrie & Rockliff.


Spain[edit]

  • Burdick, Charles B. (1968). Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
  • Payne, Stanley G. (2008). Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
  • Pike, David Wingeate (2008). Franco and the Axis Stigma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Sweden[edit]

Switzerland[edit]

  • Bower, Tom (1997). Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Halbrook, Stephen (2010). The Swiss and the Nazis. Philadelphia: Casemate Pub.
  • Kreis, Georg (2000). Switzerland and the Second World War. London: Cass.
  • Piekalkiewicz, Janusz (1978). Schweiz 39–45 [Switzerland 39–45] (in German). Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-510-3.
  • Wylie, Neville (2003). Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Turkey[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

  • Agar, Herbert (1972). Britain Alone: June 1940 – June 1941. London: Bodley Head.
  • Calder, Angus (1971). The People's War: Britain, 1939–1945. London: Panther.
  • Collier, Basil (1957). The Defence of the United Kingdom. London: HMSO.
  • Donnelly, Mark (1999). Britain in the Second World War. New York: Routledge.
  • Donnison, Frank S. V. (1956). British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943–46. London: HMSO.
  • Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni (1980). Collar the Lot! How Britain Interned & Expelled its Wartime Refugees. Quartet Books.
  • Harkness, Douglas (1955). The War and British Agriculture. London: King & Staples.
  • Hogg, Quintin (1945). The Left Was Never Right. London: Faber and Faber.
  • Kolinsky, Martin (1999). Britain's War in the Middle East: Strategy and Diplomacy, 1936–1942. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan.
  • MacInnes, Charles M. (1962). Bristol at war. London: Museum.
  • Ponting, Clive (1990). 1940: Myth and Reality. AbeBooks. ISBN 978-1-56663-036-8.
  • Rachev, Stoyan (1981). Anglo-Bulgarian Relations during the Second World War, 1939–1944. Translated by Kostov, Stefan. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia.
  • Smith, Colin (2009). England's Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940–1942. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
  • Thomas, R. T. (1979). Britain and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo-French Relations, 1940–42. New York: St. Martin's.
  • War Office Battles Nomenclature Committee (1956). The Official Names of Battles, Actions and Engagements fought by the Land Forces of the Commonwealth during the Second World War, 1939–1945. London: HMSO.
  • Wood, Ian S. (2010). Societies at War: Britain, Ireland and the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Yugoslavia[edit]

The Middle East[edit]

  • Baram, Phillip (1978). The Department of State in the Middle East, 1919–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Dann, Uriel; Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah., eds. (1988). The Great Powers in the Middle East, 1919–1939. New York: Holmes and Meier.
  • Hirszowicz, Lukasz (1966). The Third Reich and the Arab East. London: Routledge.
  • Motadel, David (2014). Islam and Nazi Germany's War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
  • Porath, Yehoshua (1986). In Search of Arab Unity, 1930–1945. London: Frank Cass.

Egypt[edit]

  • Beinin, Joel; Lockman, Zachary (1987). Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class,