The best books on World War II—from a World War II author

Book cover of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire Book cover of Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II Book cover of No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Book cover of The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

The best books about World War II aircraft carrier operations in the Pacific

Book cover of The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Book cover of Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle Book cover of The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise Book cover of The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War

The best books on U.S. Naval history

Book cover of Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950 Book cover of Blind Man's Bluff : The Untold Story of Cold War Submarine Espionage Book cover of Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy Book cover of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

The best new revisionist military history books

Book cover of Attack on Pearl Harbor: Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Book cover of Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument Book cover of Frankreichs Außenpolitik in Der Julikrise 1914: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte Des Ausbruchs Des Ersten Weltkrieges Book cover of The Russian Origins of the First World War

The best books about naval battles in the Second World War

Book cover of Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Battleship Bismarck Book cover of Day of Infamy: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Book cover of Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted: 1942-1945 Book cover of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

The best books on naval battles in WW2

Book cover of The Hunters 1939-1942 Book cover of Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 Book cover of Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway Book cover of Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II

The best books on the Battle of Midway and how it changed the course of WW2

Book cover of A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight Book cover of The Battle of Midway Book cover of No Right To Win: A Continuing Dialogue with Veterans of the Battle of Midway Book cover of Pacific Payback: The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

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