Books & Web Sites About: World War II

Internet Resources

The History Place, World War Two in Europe Timeline http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

The History Place, World War Two in the Pacific Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm

TANKBOOKS, World War II oral history Web site maintained by Aaron Elson
http://www.tankbooks.com

A Guide to World War II Materials (Library of Congress Collection Guides & Bibliographies)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html

Almanacs, Atlases, Bibliographies, and Dictionaries

Adamczyk, Richard D., and Morris J. MacGregor, eds. United States Army in World War II: Reader's Guide. Washington: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1992.

Bloomberg, Marty. World War II and Its Origins: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Books in English. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1975.

Enser, A. G. S. A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War, and Aftermath: Books in English, 1939-1974. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1977.

Enser, A. G. S. A Subject Bibliography of the Second World War, and Aftermath: Books in English, 1975-1987. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, c1990.

Friedl, Vicki L. Women in the United States Military, 1901-1995: A Research Guide and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Hogg, Ian V. Dictionary of World War II. Lincolnwood, Ill.: NTC, 1996.

Keegan, John, ed. The Times Atlas of the Second World War. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Keegan, John. Who's Who In World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Polmar, Norman B., and Thomas B. Allen. World War II: America At War, 1941-1945. New York: Random House, 1991.

Reid, Alan Scott. A Concise Encyclopedia of the Second World War. Reading: Osprey Publishing, 1974.

Wheal, Elizabeth-Anne, Stephen Pope, and James Taylor. A Dictionary of the Second World War. Emeryville, Calif.: Publishers Group West, 1990.

Standard Histories and Other Printed Resources

Ambrose, Stephen E. D Day, June 6, 1944: The Climatic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Baer, George W. One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Botting, Douglas. The D-Day Invasion. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, c1998.

Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During Wold War II. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1976.

Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York: Random House, 1998.

Campbell, D'Ann. Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Age. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Keegan, John. The Face of Battle. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Viking, 1990.

Hartmann, Susan M. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. 1982.

Holm, Jeanne M., ed. In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II. Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1998.

Jablonski, Edward A. A Pictorial History of the World War II Years. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

Larabee, Benjamin et al. America and the Sea: A Maritime History. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Publications, 1998.

Lyons, Michael J. World War II: A Short History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c1999.

Macdonald, Charles B. The Mighty Endeavor: American Armed Forces in the European Theater in World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

Macdonald, Charles B. The Battle of the Bulge. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.

McNalty, Bernard. War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. New York: Mayflower, 1978.

Morden, Bettie J. The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978. Washington: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1990.

Morison, Samuel E. The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.

O'Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. New York: Free Press, 1993.

Sherry, Michael S. The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Free Press, 1985.

Stillwell, Paul, ed. Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993.

Terkel, Studs. "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Time-Life Books, eds. World War II: Time-Life Books History of the Second World War. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1989.

Time-Life Books, eds. World War II: The Illustrated History of World War II. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, c1999.

Treadwell, Mattie E. The Women's Army Corps. Washington: Office of Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1954.

Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War. Rev. ed. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1993.