World War Two Books

by Amazon.com and AcePilots.com

By Stephen Sherman, Feb. 2000. Updated June 24, 2011.

Biographies

Winston Churchill - Britain's great wartime Prime Minister

Dwight Eisenhower - Overlord Supreme Commander

Admiral Bull Halsey

Emperor Hirohito - Emperor of Japan during WW2

Adolf Hitler - Nazi dictator of the Third Reich

Douglas MacArthur - "I shall return."

Bernard Montgomery - victor at El Alamein

Admiral Nimitz

George S. Patton - Third Army tank general

Franklin Roosevelt - President of the United States

Albert Speer - German minister of production

Joseph Stalin - Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Hideki Tojo

Harry Truman - U.S. President in 1945

Admiral Yamamoto - chief of Japan's Combined Fleet, architect of Pearl Harbor Battles

Western Front

Fall of Berlin - The Last Battle in Europe

Battle of Britain - "Their Finest Hour"

D-Day and Normandy - Overlord, June 6, 1944

Eastern Front

Stalingrad - turning point in the East

Siege of Leningrad - the 900 Days

Pacific War

Pearl Harbor - "December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy"

Midway - turning point in the Pacific

Guadalcanal - struggle for Henderson Field

Iwo Jima

Leyte Gulf - the end of the Japanese fleet, the Battle of Philippine Sea

Coral Sea - first great carrier battle in history

Weapons

Airplanes

Fighters

- P-51 Mustang - best fighter of WW2

- Supermarine Spitfire - dominant in the Battle of Britain

- Lockheed P-38 Lightning - big, twin engine fighter

- Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - "Seven Ton Milk Jug"

- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - the Flying Tigers' airplane

Bombers

Ships

Submarines

Destroyers

Aircraft Carriers

- USS Yorktown

- USS Lexington

- USS Enterprise

Battleships

- Bismarck

- Yamato - Japan's super battleship

Tanks

Other WW2 Subjects

Air War

Atlases

Naval

Hiroshima & Nagasaki - atomic bomb targets

Intelligence Operations - Enigma, spies, Bletchley Park, OSS

Personal Narratives

Women in WW2

Documentary Videos

Holocaust

Favorite WWII Authors

Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers and many others

Carlo D'Este

Walter Lord

David McCullough

Gordon Prange - big, scholarly books on the Pacific War

Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day and others

William Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and more

John Toland