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  • Martin Dugard The best books about fighter pilots, Winston Churchill, and the Battle of Britain Book cover of Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain Book cover of The Last Enemy Book cover of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 Book cover of First Light: The True Story of the Boy Who Became a Man in the War-Torn Skies above Britain Book cover of All the Light We Cannot See
  • Mark Zuehlke The best books by Canadians on their World War 2 service Book cover of And No Birds Sang Book cover of The Guns of Normandy: A Soldier's Eye View, France 1944 Book cover of A Thousand Shall Fall Book cover of Not All of Us Were Brave Book cover of Battle Diary: From D-Day and Normandy to the Zuider Zee and VE
  • Alexis Peri The best books that grasp the gritty, brutal, and heartrending reality of life in the war-torn Soviet Union Book cover of The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects Book cover of German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Koenigsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad Book cover of To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War Book cover of Letters from the Dead: Last Letters from Soviet Men and Women Who Died Fighting the Nazis (1941-1945) Book cover of The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
  • M. Girard Dorsey The best books about hidden stories of World War II that make you wonder: “what if?” Book cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Book cover of Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of The Great Escape Book cover of Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy Book cover of Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II
  • Mel Laytner The best books about resilience and surviving the horrors of World War II Book cover of The Nightingale Book cover of Literature or Life Book cover of Unbroken Book cover of Slaughterhouse-Five Book cover of The Drowned and the Saved
  • Glyn Harper The best books on World War 2 published after 2000 Book cover of Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 Book cover of The Fall of Berlin 1945 Book cover of The Day of Battle Book cover of Pendulum of War: The Three Battles of El Alamein Book cover of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944
  • Gemma Liviero The best books on WW2 occupation, resistance, and the aftermath Book cover of Primo Levi's Resistance: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy Book cover of A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City Book cover of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II Book cover of The Second World War: A Complete History Book cover of Suite Française
  • Daniel P. Bolger The best books about American combat leaders in World War II Book cover of Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II Book cover of Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II Book cover of War As I Knew It Book cover of A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge Book cover of Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
  • Royce A. Singleton, Jr. The best books that capture the lives of ordinary men and women in World War II Book cover of The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II Book cover of Flags of Our Fathers Book cover of The Greatest Generation Book cover of So Long for Now: A Sailor's Letters from the USS Franklin Book cover of Miss You: The World War II Letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor
  • Joy Neal Kidney The best books about people researching World War II casualties Book cover of Courtesies of the Heart Book cover of A Missing Plane Book cover of Bones of My Grandfather: Reclaiming a Lost Hero of World War II Book cover of Letters from Uncle Dave: The 73-year Journey to Find a Missing-In-Action World War II Paratrooper Book cover of Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
  • Helena P. Schrader The best books about R.A.F. Bomber Crews Book cover of Tomorrow May Never Come: The Remarkable Life Story of ‘Stevie’ Stevens, Lancaster Pilot and Beloved School Teacher Book cover of Bomber Pilot: Bomber Command Pilot Leonard Cheshire's Classic Second World War Memoir Book cover of One Wing High: Halifax Bomber - the Navigator's Story Book cover of Keeping Watch: A WAAF in Bomber Command Book cover of Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
  • Sarah Sundin The best World War II novels to inspire you Book cover of The Curator's Daughter Book cover of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II Book cover of The Lines Between Us Book cover of The London Restoration Book cover of The Paris Dressmaker
  • David Andrew Westwood The best books about the weirder side of World War II Book cover of Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Book cover of Bat Bomb: World War II's Other Secret Weapon Book cover of Fu-Go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America Book cover of Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Book cover of Operation Chowhound: The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
  • Robert C. Daniels The best books about World War II POWs Book cover of Surrender and Survival: The Experience of American Pow's in the Pacific 1941-1945 Book cover of Last Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II Book cover of Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission Book cover of Hero of Bataan: The Story of General Wainwright Book cover of Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps
  • J.L. Oakley The best books about Norway during WWII Book cover of Gold Run: The Rescue of Norway's Gold Bullion from the Nazis, April 1940 Book cover of The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival Book cover of The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance Book cover of Skis Against the Atom: The Exciting, First Hand Account of Heroism and Daring Sabotage During the Nazi Occupation of Norway Book cover of Occupied: A Novel Based on a True Story
  • Jon Trigg The best books about the bombing of Nazi Germany–war miles in the sky! Book cover of I Flew for the Fuhrer: The Memoirs of a Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot Book cover of The Battle of Hamburg: The Firestorm Raid Book cover of Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich: A War Diary, 1942-45 Book cover of Night Airwar: Personal Recollections of the Conflict over Europe 1939-45 Book cover of Flak: German Anti-aircraft Defenses, 1914-1945
  • Kevin Miller The best books on the Battle of Midway and how it changed the course of WW2 Book cover of Shattered Sword: The Untold Story 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 No Right To Win: A Continuing Dialogue with Veterans of the Battle of Midway Book cover of The Battle of Midway Book cover of A Dawn Like Thunder: The True Story of Torpedo Squadron Eight
  • Shrabani Basu The best books on secret agents and espionage in WW2 Book cover of Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal Book cover of A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII Book cover of Flames in the Field: The Story of Four SOE Agents in Occupied France Book cover of Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 Book cover of Carve Her Name with Pride: The Story of Violette Szabo
  • Leo Barron The best books on the Battle of the Bulge and the soldiers who fought there Book cover of A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge Book cover of Battle: The Story of the Bulge Book cover of Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge Book cover of The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon Book cover of Alamo in the Ardennes: The Untold Story of the American Soldiers Who Made the Defense of Bastogne Possible
  • Daniel Hammel The best books on the war in the Pacific 1941-1945 Book cover of Day of Infamy: The Classic Account of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Book cover of Guadalcanal Diary Book cover of Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific Book cover of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Book cover of Twilight of the Gods
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