World War II Discussion Group

Books Selected 2004-2008

 

September/December 2004
Origins of the Second World War by A.J. P. Taylor
Hitler by Joachim C. Fest

2005
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
Last Boat from Bordeaux War Memoirs of Francis de Marneffe by Dr. Francis
de Marneffe
Eisenhower by Stephen Ambrose
Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret McMillan
Rising Sun by John Toland
American Caesar [Douglas MacArthur] by William Manchester

2006
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert Bix
Flyboys by James Bradley
With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B.Sledge
No Ordinary Time by D.K. Goodwin.
The Foxes of the Desert by Paul Carell
A Writer at War, With the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
The Women Who Lived for Danger by Marcus Binney
Secret Soldiers by Philip Gerard
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson

2007
Secret Soldiers by Philip Gerard
Mussolini by J. B. Bosworth
The Last European War by John Lukacs
War in the Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo
Ken Burns' The War (WWII Documentary)

2008
Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943 by Rick Atkinson (first half)

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