Here's a hand-picked roundup of world war 2 books. Every entry below is a history title worth your time, chosen for lasting impact and reader ratings.
by Priscilla Roberts
2012
Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II—the most devastating war in human history. World War II was the mo…
€94.80 list price
Check price on Amazon →by DK
2022
Learn about the rise of Adolf Hitler, Pearl Harbour and the D-Day Landings in The WWII Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about World War 2…
€11.99 list price
Check price on Amazon →by Dan Plesch
2010
On 1 January 1942, Churchill and Roosevelt issued a 'Declaration by United Nations' with 24 other states, forging a military alliance based on human rights principles that included China, India and the Soviet Union. This marked the …
€29.04 list price
Check price on Amazon →by David M. Kennedy
2007
An indispensable reference on World War II produced by the Library of Congress and edited by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David M. Kennedy. With hundreds of illustrations and quotations from contemporary documents, this will be the most…
€33.62 list price
Check price on Amazon →by Nigel Cawthorne
2017
"Before Alamein we never won a battle, after Alamein we never lost one." Winston Churchill Although this is an exaggeration, it is perhaps a pardonable one. The second battle of El Alamein in November 1942 was followed in April 19…
€0.99 list price
Check price on Amazon →by Tatjana Tönsmeyer, Peter Haslinger, Agnes Laba
2018
This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the vario…
Check price on Amazon →by Jim Pipe
2012
World War Two, A Very Peculiar History' explores the most destructive event of the twentieth century, a war that defined and shaped the world we live in today. Jim Pipe introduces the nations, as well as individuals, that participated a…
€10.49 list price
Check price on Amazon →by Sharon Cromwell
2008
Looks at soldier life in various theaters of World War II, as well as life back at home after the war.…
Check price on Amazon →by Loyd E. Lee
1991
This anthology contains 16 readings that deal with military, political, diplomatic, and social aspects of WWII and its consequences for the contemporary world. The readings are grouped around seven major topics, and each topic is prefaced w…
Check price on Amazon →by Christian Karner
2017
Decades after the previously unimaginable horrors of the Nazi extermination camps and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their memories remain part of our lives. In academic and human terms, preserving awareness of thi…
€50.71 list price
Check price on Amazon →by James W. Fiscus
2004
Presents a collection of primary source documents and articles written on World War II from the time of the war to the present.…
Check price on Amazon →by Harris Andrews, Oxmoor House
2002
With this volume, Time-Life Books, publisher of numerous highly acclaimed volumes on World War II, tells the history of mankind's greatest catastrophe in 23 insightful essays and more than 800 compelling photographs of the war's key…
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