Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

The Longest Day: June 6, 1944

Cornelius Ryan

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II

Vicki Constantine Croke

And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II

Evelyn M. Monahan

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

David Howarth

Soldiers of a Different Cloth: Notre Dame Chaplains in World War II

John Wukovits

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

William Manchester

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay

Craig L. Symonds

Facing the Mountain: An Inspiring Story of Japanese American Patriots in World War II

Daniel James Brown

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell

Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944

John Keegan

Russia's War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945

Richard Overy

The Pacific

Hugh Ambrose

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Eugene B. Sledge

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

Robert Leckie

Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Stephen E. Ambrose