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The '''Bibliography of World War II''' is vast. These are the best titles in English on [[World War II]]
* Dear, I. C. B. and M. R. D. Foot, eds. ''Oxford Companion to World War II'' (in Britain titled ''Oxford Companion to the Second World War'' (2005; 2nd ed. 2009). the best reference book; [http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-World-War-II/dp/019280670X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236549909&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* ''Times Atlas of the Second World War'' (1995)
* Weinberg, Gerhard L. ''A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II'', (1994) the best overall view of the war.
===Major leaders===
====United States====
* Beschloss, Michael R. ''The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Conquerors-Roosevelt-Destruction-Hitlers-1941-1945/dp/0743244540/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254576731&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Black, Conrad. ''Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom'' (2003). popular [http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Delano-Roosevelt-Champion-Freedom/dp/1586482823/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193881865&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search], by a conservative writer
* Brands, H.W. ''Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt'' (2008)
* Burns, James MacGregor. vol. 2: ''Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945'' (1970), [http://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-1940-1945-James-MacGregor-Burns/dp/0156027577/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193881949&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search vol 2]; major interpretive scholarly biography, emphasis on politics [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books]
* Dallek, Robert. ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945'' (2nd ed. 1995) scholarly survey of foreign policy [http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Roosevelt-American-Foreign-1932-1945/dp/0195097327/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193881549&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
====Britain====
* Addison, Paul. "Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' [http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.cc.uic.edu/view/article/32413, online]
* Best, Geoffrey. ''Churchill: A Study in Greatness'' (2003), 400pp; very well received biography
* Beschloss, Michael R. ''The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Conquerors-Roosevelt-Destruction-Hitlers-1941-1945/dp/0743244540/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254576731&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Hamilton, Nigel. ''The Full Monty: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942'' v.1 (2001); ''Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942-1944'' v. 2. (1984) [http://www.amazon.com/Full-Monty-Montgomery-Alamein-1887-1942/dp/0713993340/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254576813&sr=1-19 excerpt and texct search vol 1]
====Germany====
* Bullock, Alan. ''Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Stalin-Parallel-Alan-Bullock/dp/0679729941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254577164&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Kershaw, Ian. ''Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis.'' (2000). 832 pp. The leading scholarly biography, vol 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194147952&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Overy, Richard. ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Hitlers-Germany-Stalins-Russia/dp/0393327973/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194148027&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
====Japan====
* Bix, Herbert P. ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Hirohito-Making-Modern-Japan-Herbert/dp/0060931302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254577232&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
====Soviet Union====
* Bullock, Alan. ''Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Stalin-Parallel-Alan-Bullock/dp/0679729941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254577164&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Overy, Richard. ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Hitlers-Germany-Stalins-Russia/dp/0393327973/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194148027&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
===Europe===
===Origins===
* Bell, P. M. H. ''The Origins of the Second World War in Europe.'' (1986). 326 pp.
* Boyce, Robert, and Joseph A. Maiolo. ''The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Origins-World-War-Two-Continues/dp/0333945395/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791097&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Deist, Wilhelm et al., ed. ''Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 1: The Build-up of German Aggression.'' (1991). 799 pp., official German history
* Eubank, Keith. ''The Origins of World War II'' (2004), short survey
* Finney, Patrick. ''The Origins of the Second World War'' (1998), 480pp
* Hildebrand, Klaus. ''The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich'', (1973).
* Lamb, Margaret and Tarling, Nicholas. ''From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia.'' (2001). 238 pp.
* Langer and Gleason
* Lukes, Igor. ''The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II'' (1999), 416pp [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0714680567/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Mallett, Robert. ''Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933 - 1940'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Mussolini-Origins-Second-World-1933/dp/0333748158/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791097&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Overy, Richard and Wheatcroft, Andrew. ''The Road to War.'' (1990). 364 pp.
*Overy, Richard and Timothy Mason, "Debate: Germany, “Domestic Crisis” and War in 1939" ''Past and Present'', Number 122, February 1989. pages 200-240
* Prazmowska, Anita J. ''Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War.'' (2000). 278 pp.
* Record, Jeffrey. ''The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Specter-Munich-Reconsidering-Lessons-Appeasing/dp/1597970395/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791247&sr=1-19 excerpt and text search]
* Watt, Donald Cameron ''How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939'', (1989), the mnajor survey ISBN 0-394-57916-X.
*Weinberg, Gerhard L. ''Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939'', 1980.
* Young, Robert ''France and the Origins of the Second World War'', (1996) ISBN 0-312-16185-9.
===Pacific===
* Barnhart, Michael A. ''Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941'' (1987)
* Bix, Herbert. ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' (2000), based on Japanese left-wing interpretations
* Butow, Robert J. C. ''Tojo and the Coming of the War'' (1961)
* Dallek, Robert. ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945'' (1995).
* Feis, Herbert. ''The Road to Pearl Harbor: The coming of the war between the United States and Japan.'' classic history by senior American official.
* Horne, Gerald. ''Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire.'' (2003). 432 pp.
* Kawamura, Noriko. "Emperor Hirohito and Japan's Decision to Go to War with the United States: Reexamined" ''Diplomatic History'' (2007) 31 (1), 51–79. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2007.00591.x online at Blackwell-Synergy]]
* Langer and Gleason
* Sun, Youli. ''China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941.'' (1993). 244 pp.
* Tarling, Nicholas. ''Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War.'' (1996). 434 pp.
* Thorne, Christopher G. ''The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Coming of the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945'' (1985) sophisticated analysis of each major power.
* Tohmatsu, Haruo and H. P. Willmott. ''A Gathering Darkness: The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific'' (2004), short overview.
* Utley, Jonathan G. ''Going to War with Japan, 1937–1941'' (1985)
* Wetzler, Peter. ''Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan'' (1998), chaps. 2, 3;
* Yomiuri Shimbun. ''Who Was Responsible? From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor'' (2007)
ISBN 4643060123 [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20070311a1.html review]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Bibliographies]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:World War II, Bibliography of}}
* Dear, I. C. B. and M. R. D. Foot, eds. ''Oxford Companion to World War II'' (in Britain titled ''Oxford Companion to the Second World War'' (2005; 2nd ed. 2009). the best reference book; [http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-World-War-II/dp/019280670X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236549909&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* ''Times Atlas of the Second World War'' (1995)
* Weinberg, Gerhard L. ''A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II'', (1994) the best overall view of the war.
===Major leaders===
====United States====
* Beschloss, Michael R. ''The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Conquerors-Roosevelt-Destruction-Hitlers-1941-1945/dp/0743244540/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254576731&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Black, Conrad. ''Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom'' (2003). popular [http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Delano-Roosevelt-Champion-Freedom/dp/1586482823/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193881865&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search], by a conservative writer
* Brands, H.W. ''Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt'' (2008)
* Burns, James MacGregor. vol. 2: ''Roosevelt: Soldier of Freedom 1940-1945'' (1970), [http://www.amazon.com/Roosevelt-1940-1945-James-MacGregor-Burns/dp/0156027577/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193881949&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search vol 2]; major interpretive scholarly biography, emphasis on politics [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books]
* Dallek, Robert. ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945'' (2nd ed. 1995) scholarly survey of foreign policy [http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Roosevelt-American-Foreign-1932-1945/dp/0195097327/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193881549&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
====Britain====
* Addison, Paul. "Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,'' [http://www.oxforddnb.com.proxy.cc.uic.edu/view/article/32413, online]
* Best, Geoffrey. ''Churchill: A Study in Greatness'' (2003), 400pp; very well received biography
* Beschloss, Michael R. ''The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945'' (2002) [http://www.amazon.com/Conquerors-Roosevelt-Destruction-Hitlers-1941-1945/dp/0743244540/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254576731&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Hamilton, Nigel. ''The Full Monty: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942'' v.1 (2001); ''Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942-1944'' v. 2. (1984) [http://www.amazon.com/Full-Monty-Montgomery-Alamein-1887-1942/dp/0713993340/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254576813&sr=1-19 excerpt and texct search vol 1]
====Germany====
* Bullock, Alan. ''Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Stalin-Parallel-Alan-Bullock/dp/0679729941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254577164&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Kershaw, Ian. ''Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis.'' (2000). 832 pp. The leading scholarly biography, vol 2 [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-1936-1945-Nemesis-Ian-Kershaw/dp/0393322521/ref=sr_1_3/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194147952&sr=1-3 excerpt and text search]
* Overy, Richard. ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Hitlers-Germany-Stalins-Russia/dp/0393327973/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194148027&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
====Japan====
* Bix, Herbert P. ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' (2001) [http://www.amazon.com/Hirohito-Making-Modern-Japan-Herbert/dp/0060931302/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254577232&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
====Soviet Union====
* Bullock, Alan. ''Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'' (1993) [http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Stalin-Parallel-Alan-Bullock/dp/0679729941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254577164&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Overy, Richard. ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia'' (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Hitlers-Germany-Stalins-Russia/dp/0393327973/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194148027&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
===Europe===
===Origins===
* Bell, P. M. H. ''The Origins of the Second World War in Europe.'' (1986). 326 pp.
* Boyce, Robert, and Joseph A. Maiolo. ''The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Origins-World-War-Two-Continues/dp/0333945395/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791097&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Deist, Wilhelm et al., ed. ''Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 1: The Build-up of German Aggression.'' (1991). 799 pp., official German history
* Eubank, Keith. ''The Origins of World War II'' (2004), short survey
* Finney, Patrick. ''The Origins of the Second World War'' (1998), 480pp
* Hildebrand, Klaus. ''The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich'', (1973).
* Lamb, Margaret and Tarling, Nicholas. ''From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia.'' (2001). 238 pp.
* Langer and Gleason
* Lukes, Igor. ''The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II'' (1999), 416pp [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0714680567/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Mallett, Robert. ''Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933 - 1940'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Mussolini-Origins-Second-World-1933/dp/0333748158/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791097&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* Overy, Richard and Wheatcroft, Andrew. ''The Road to War.'' (1990). 364 pp.
*Overy, Richard and Timothy Mason, "Debate: Germany, “Domestic Crisis” and War in 1939" ''Past and Present'', Number 122, February 1989. pages 200-240
* Prazmowska, Anita J. ''Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War.'' (2000). 278 pp.
* Record, Jeffrey. ''The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Specter-Munich-Reconsidering-Lessons-Appeasing/dp/1597970395/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791247&sr=1-19 excerpt and text search]
* Watt, Donald Cameron ''How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939'', (1989), the mnajor survey ISBN 0-394-57916-X.
*Weinberg, Gerhard L. ''Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939'', 1980.
* Young, Robert ''France and the Origins of the Second World War'', (1996) ISBN 0-312-16185-9.
===Pacific===
* Barnhart, Michael A. ''Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941'' (1987)
* Bix, Herbert. ''Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan'' (2000), based on Japanese left-wing interpretations
* Butow, Robert J. C. ''Tojo and the Coming of the War'' (1961)
* Dallek, Robert. ''Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945'' (1995).
* Feis, Herbert. ''The Road to Pearl Harbor: The coming of the war between the United States and Japan.'' classic history by senior American official.
* Horne, Gerald. ''Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire.'' (2003). 432 pp.
* Kawamura, Noriko. "Emperor Hirohito and Japan's Decision to Go to War with the United States: Reexamined" ''Diplomatic History'' (2007) 31 (1), 51–79. [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2007.00591.x online at Blackwell-Synergy]]
* Langer and Gleason
* Sun, Youli. ''China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-1941.'' (1993). 244 pp.
* Tarling, Nicholas. ''Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War.'' (1996). 434 pp.
* Thorne, Christopher G. ''The Issue of War: States, Societies, and the Coming of the Far Eastern Conflict of 1941-1945'' (1985) sophisticated analysis of each major power.
* Tohmatsu, Haruo and H. P. Willmott. ''A Gathering Darkness: The Coming of War to the Far East and the Pacific'' (2004), short overview.
* Utley, Jonathan G. ''Going to War with Japan, 1937–1941'' (1985)
* Wetzler, Peter. ''Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan'' (1998), chaps. 2, 3;
* Yomiuri Shimbun. ''Who Was Responsible? From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor'' (2007)
ISBN 4643060123 [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fb20070311a1.html review]
[[Category:World War II]]
[[Category:Bibliographies]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:World War II, Bibliography of}}