Bibliography of World War II

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; 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) excerpt and text search
• Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom (2003). popular 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), excerpt and text search vol 2; major interpretive scholarly biography, emphasis on politics online at ACLS e-books
• Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 (2nd ed. 1995) scholarly survey of foreign policy excerpt and text search

Britain

• Addison, Paul. "Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer (1874–1965)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online
• Best, Geoffrey. Churchill: A Study in Greatness (2003), 400pp; very well received biography
• 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) excerpt and texct search vol 1

Germany

• Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1993) excerpt and text search
• Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, 1936-1945: Nemesis. (2000). 832 pp. The leading scholarly biography, vol 2 excerpt and text search
• Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2005) excerpt and text search

Japan

• Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (2001) excerpt and text search

Soviet Union

• Bullock, Alan. Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1993) excerpt and text search
• Overy, Richard. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2005) excerpt and text search

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) 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 excerpt and text search
• Mallett, Robert. Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933 - 1940 (2003) 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) 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. 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)

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