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- Rebecca Hussey
- Fiction. All the Light We cannot See by Anthony Doerr. “[All the Light We Cannot See is] about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.”
- Children’s/Young Adult. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. “Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys.
- Straight-Up History. Americans In Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944 by Charles Glass. “When the German army marched into Paris on June 14, 1940, approximately 5,000 Americans remained in Paris.
- Biography, Autobiography, Memoir. All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein. “All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein’s six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.”
Feb 16, 2021 · World War II: A New History (420 pages): Though this book focuses on the war’s military and strategic history, it also examines the political, economic, ideological and cultural factors...
Sep 14, 2024 · On this list, I have compiled 20 books that everyone should read to understand the world’s deadliest war better, and these rankings are based on public reception, cultural impact and...
- Sughnen Yongo
Jun 11, 2024 · From the memoirs of Holocaust survivors to the cockpits of fighter planes above the Pacific, these 20 books will show you new aspects of the Second World War, some of them brutal, and some inspiring, but all of them gripping.
- Orrin Grey
- Insight About The Most Significant Event in History
- 10 Top Nonfiction Books About World War II
- Gaining Perspective on World War II
- For Related Reading
In addition to the many World War II novels I’ve readand reviewed here, both mysteries and trade fiction, I’ve read a great many nonfiction books about the years leading up to and during the war. Here I’m listing two dozen of the best I’ve come across in recent years. They cover everything from economic policy in the Depression and the rise of Nazi...
American Heritage History of World War II by Steven E. Ambrose and C. L. Sulzberger (1966, 1997) 640 pages ★★★★★—The best short history of World War II
Thousands of books have been written about World War II—Amazon shows more than 70,000 titles about “history’s greatest catastrophe.” Among them are general histories from the likes of the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Times, and unnumbered others. Although I can’t claim to have read them all, or even more than a handful, the very best short history of World War II that I’ve come across is the product of three eminent authors writing for the American Heritage magazine: Stephen E. Ambro...
Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer Bartov (2018) 417 pages ★★★★★—The Holocaust under the microscope
Historian Omer Bartov demonstrates how very complicated the Holocaust was. By tracing the history of antisemitism in a single Polish-Ukrainian town from the sixteenth century to the present, and detailing day by day how the Holocaust unfolded there, he brings to light the many nuances lost in historical portraits painted with a broader brush. The book is a masterful effort that should stand for decades if not centuries as one of the most insightful accounts of that shameful episode in what is...
Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II by Marc Gallicchio (2020) 282 pages ★★★★☆—Backstory to the unconditional Japanese surrender in WWII
Three-quarters of a century after the end of World War II, FDR’s policy to demand unconditional surrender from Germany and Japan may seem simply logical. After all, in an era of total war, the only guarantee that either nation wouldn’t sufficiently recover to attack again was total Allied control over their system of government following the end of hostilities. That seemed assured in the case of Germany, which ended the war in rubble and ashes and divided between East and West. But unconditio...
For the United States, World War II lasted less than four years (December 1941 to September 1945). But for much of the rest of the world the war was a much more protracted affair. In Europe, its formal beginning was September 1, 1939, when Hitler’s forces invaded Poland, although on both sides preparations for the conflict had been underway for sev...
For the long background to the story of Nazi Germany, see The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe―A Retelling for Our Times by James Hawes (2,000 years of German history in 200 pages). This post is one of My 10 top reading recommendations. I’ve written a long article, “7 common misconceptions about World War II,”...
We asked 9,000+ authors for their favorite books. 812 authors picked a book connected to World War 2, here are their favorites and why. Also, check out the best WW2 fiction and nonfiction.
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Dec 9, 2008 · At the end of his book, The Second World War, John Keegan offers a list of 50 books in English that "together provide a comprehensive picture of the most important events and themes of the war, which are readable and from which the general reader can derive his own picture of the war as a….
