Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East

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This is a Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It aims to include the major theaters, campaigns and battles of the European theater of World War II. It is part of Wikipedia's larger effort to document the Bibliography of World War II. Its counterpart for the Asia-Pacific theater is the Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific.

Bibliography

General history of the European theater

  • Addison, Paul; Calder, Angus, eds. (1997). Time to Kill: The Soldier's Experience of War in the West, 1939–1945. London: Pimlico.
  • Davies, Norman (2006). Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory. London: Macmillan.
  • Nagorski, Andrew (2019). 1941: The Year German Lost the War. Simon & Schuster. .
  • Perry, Marvin (2013). World War II in Europe: A Concise History. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing.
  • Wilmot, Chester (1952). The Struggle for Europe. New York: Harper.

Invasion of Poland (1939)

Phony War (1939–1940)

Altmark incident (1940)

  • British Foreign Office; Norwegian Legation (1950). Correspondence between H.M.’s Government in the U.K. and the Norwegian Government respecting the German steamer ‘Altmark’. London: HMSO.
  • Frischauer, Willi; Jackson, Robert (1955). 'The Navy's Here!': The Altmark Affair. London: Gollancz.

Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–1945)

  • Grier, Howard D. (2007). Hitler, Dönitz, and the Baltic Sea: The Third Reich's Last Hope, 1944–1945. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press.

Battle of the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans (1939–1945)

  • Dimbleby, Jonathan (2016). The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Liversidge, Douglas (1960). The Third Front: The Strange Story of the Secret War in the Arctic. London: Souvenir.
  • Pope, Dudley (1968). 73 North: The Battle of the Barents Sea. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Winter War (1939–1940)

Operation Weserübung (1940)

Western Campaign (1940)

East African campaign (1940–1941)

  • Ellsberg, Edward (1946). Under the Red Sea Sun. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company.
  • MacDonald, John Forrest (1957). Abyssinian Adventure. Cassell.
  • Steer, George L. (1942). Sealed and Delivered: a Book on the Abyssinian Campaign. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Battle of the Mediterranean (1940–1945)

  • Howard, Michael (1993). The Mediterranean Strategy in the Second World War. London: Greenhill Books.
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). Operations in North African Waters: October 1942–June 1943. New York: Book Sales.
  • O'Hara, Vincent (2009). Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940–1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

Battle of Cape Matapan (March 1941)

  • Pack, Stanley W. C. (1961). The Battle of Matapan. London: Batsford.
  • ——— (1972). Night Action off Cape Matapan. London: Allan.
  • Seth, Ronald (1960). Two Fleets surprised: the Story of the Battle of Cape Matapan, Mediterranean, March, 1941. London: Bles.

North African campaign (1940–1943)

Siege of Malta (1940–1942)

Battle of Britain (1940)

Balkans campaign (1940–1941)

Anglo-Iraqi War (1941)

Syria-Lebanon campaign (1941)

Eastern Front (1941–1945)

General

  • Baker, Lee (2009). The Second World War on the Eastern Front. London: Pearson Longman.
  • Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.
  • Buttar, Prit (2018). On a Knife’s Edge: The Ukraine, November 1942–March 1943. Osprey Publishing.
  • ——— (2019). Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943. Osprey Publishing.
  • ——— (2020). The Reckoning: The Defeat of Army Group South, 1944. Osprey Publishing.
  • ——— (2022). Meat Grinder: The Battles for the Rzhev Salient, 1942–43. Osprey Publishing.
  • Fritz, Stephen G. (1995). Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
  • ——— (2011). Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
  • Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan
    (1995). When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
  • Hartmann, Christian
    (2013). Operation Barbarossa: Germany's War in the East, 1941–1945. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Hill, Alexander (2016). The Red Army and the Second World War. UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mawdsley, Evan (2005). Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Hodder Arnold.
  • McMeekin, Sean (2021). Stalin's War: A New History of World War II. New York: Basic Books.
  • Hitler's War in the East, 1941–1945: A Critical Assessment
    . Oxford: Berghahn.
  • Seaton, Albert (1971). The Russo-German War, 1941–1945. London: Arthur Barker.
  • Stahel, David (2009). Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • ——— (2011). Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ziemke, Earl F. (1968). Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army.
  • ———; Bauer, Magna E. (1987). Moscow to Stalingrad: Decision in the East. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army.

Arctic operations and Continuation War (1941–1944)

Operation Barbarossa (1941)

First Battle of Kiev (1941)

  • Stahel, David (2011). Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crimean campaign (1941–42)

  • Forczyk, Robert (2014). Where Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941–44. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

Operation Typhoon and Battle of Moscow (1941)

  • Braithwaite, Rodric (2006). Moscow 1941: A City and Its People At War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Reinhardt, Klaus (1992). Moscow: The Turning Point. Oxford: Berg.
  • Stahel, David (2013). Operation Typhoon. Hitler's March on Moscow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Siege of Leningrad (1941–44)

Winter campaigns (1941/42)

  • Stahel, David (2019). Retreat from Moscow: A New History of Germany's Winter Campaign, 1941–1942. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Second Battle of Kharkov (1942)

  • Glantz, David M. (1998). Kharkov 1942: Anatomy of a Military Disaster. Sarpedon. .

Case Blue (1942)

Battle of the Caucasus (1942–44)

  • Statiev, Alexander (2018). At War's Summit: The Red Army and the Struggle for the Caucasus Mountains in World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Battle of Stalingrad (1942/43)

Winter campaigns (1942/43)

  • Glantz, David M. (2011). After Stalingrad: The Red Army's Winter Offensive 1942–1943. Oxford: Helion and Company.

Operation Citadel and Battle of Kursk (1943)

Operation Bagration (1944)

Baltic Offensive (1944)

  • Baxter, Ian (2009). Battle in the Baltics 1944–45: The Fighting for Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. A Photographic History. Helion and Company. .
  • Buttar, Prit (2013). Between Giants: The Battle for the Baltics in World War II. Osprey Publishing.

Siege of Budapest (1944–45)

  • Ungvary, Krisztian (2005). The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Soviet conquest of Germany (1945)

  • Buttar, Prit (2010). Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany’s Eastern Front 1944-45. Osprey Publishing.
  • Duffy, Christopher (1993). Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany, 1945. New York: Da Capo Press.
  • Hastings, Max (2004). Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Meier-Welcker, Hans, ed. (1963). Abwehrkämpfe am Nordflügel der Ostfront 1944–1945 [Defensive Battles at the Northern Flank of the Eastern Front 1944–1945] (in German). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.

Battle of Berlin (1945)

  • Beevor, Antony (2002). The Fall of Berlin, 1945. New York: Viking.
  • Ryan, Cornelius (1966). The Last Battle. London: Collins.

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran (1941)

Italian campaign (1943–1945)

Battle of Monte Cassino (January–May 1944)

  • Bohmler, Rudolf (1964). Monte Cassino. London: Cassell.
  • Bond, Harold L. (1964). Return to Cassino: A Memoir of the Fight for Rome. London: Dent.
  • Connell, Charles (1963). Monte Cassino: The Historic Battle. London: Elek.
  • Graham, Dominick (1971). Cassino. New York: Ballantine.
  • Majdalany, Fred (1945). The Monastery. London: Lane.
  • ——— (1957). Cassino: Portrait of a Battle. London: Longmans Green.

Battle of Anzio (January–June 1944)

Dodecanese campaign (1943)

  • Rogers, Anthony (2019). Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese. Osprey Publishing. .

Western Front (1944–1945)

General

  • Ambrose, Stephen (1997). Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • .
  • Balkokski, Joseph (1999). Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Infantry Division in Normandy. Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books.
  • Blumenson, Martin (1963). The Duel for France, 1944. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
  • Levine, Alan J. (2000). From the Normandy Beaches To The Baltic Sea: The Northwest Europe Campaign, 1944–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
  • Mitcham, Samuel W. Jr. (1997). The Desert Fox in Normandy: Rommel's Defense of Fortress Europe. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
  • Porch, Douglas (2024). Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Normandy landings, Battle of Normandy (1944)

Falaise Pocket (1944)

Operation Market Garden (1944)

Battle of Arnhem (1944)
  • Bauer, Cornelis (1966). The Battle of Arnhem: The Betrayal Myth Refuted. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  • Beevor, Antony (2018). The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II. New York: Viking.
  • Gibson, Ronald (1956). Nine Days (17–25th September, 1944). Ilfracombe (Devonshire): Stockwell.
  • Hagen, Louis (1945). Arnhem Lift: The Diary of a Glider Pilot. London: Pilot.
  • Heaps, Leo (1945). Escape from Arnhem: A Canadian among the lost Paratroops. London: Macmillan.
  • Hibbert, Christopher (1962). The Battle of Arnhem. London: Batsford.
  • Horst, Kate A. ten. (1959). Cloud over Arnhem: September 17th–26th, 1944. London: Wingate.
  • Mackenzie, Charles B. (1956). It was like this!: A Short Factual Account of the Battle of Arnhem and Oosterbeck (2nd ed.). London: Bailey & Swinfen.
  • Piekalkiewicz, Janusz (1998). Arnheim 1944: Die größte Luftlandeoperation [Arnhem 1944: The Largest Airborne Operation] (in German). Bechtermünz Verlag. .
  • Swiecicki, Marek (1945). With the Red Devils at Arnhem. London: Max Love.
  • Urquhart, Robert E. (1958). Arnhem. London: Cassell.
  • Whiting, Charles (1974). A Bridge at Arnhem. London: Futura.

Battle of the Bulge / Ardennes Offensive (1944–45)

  • Beevor, Antony (2015). Ardennes 1944: Battle of the Bulge. London: Viking.
  • Caddick-Adams, P. (2014). Snow and Steel: The Battle of the Bulge, 1944–45. Oxford University Press.
  • Cole, Hugh M. (1965). The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army.
  • Davis, Franklin M. (1961). Breakthrough: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Bulge. Derby (CT/USA): Monarch.
  • Draper, Theodore (1956). The 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Ardennes. New York: Viking.
  • Eisenhower, John S. D. (1969). The Bitter Woods: The Dramatic Story of Hitler's Surprise Offensive. New York: Putnam.
  • Elstob, Peter (1971). Hitler's Last Offensive. London: Secker & Warburg.
  • Kershaw, Alex (2004). The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon. Boston: Da Capo Press.
  • Merriam, Robert E. (1947). Dark December: The Full Account of the Battle of the Bulge. Chicago: Ziff-Davis.
  • Nobecourt, Jacques (1967). Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Ardennes. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Strawson, John (1972). The Battle of the Ardennes. London: Bastford.
  • Toland, John (1960). Battle: The Story of the Bulge. London: Muller.
Malmedy Massacre (1944)
  • Gallagher, Richard (1964). The
    Malmedy Massacre
    . New York: Paperback Library.
  • Whiting, Charles (1971). Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of
    Jochen Peiper
    's Battle Group, Ardennes, December 1944
    . London: Cooper.
Siege of Bastogne (1944)
  • Elstob, Peter (1968). Bastogne: The Road Block. New York: Ballantine.
  • Marshall, Samuel L. A. (1946). Bastogne: The story of the first eight days in which the 101st Airborne Division was closed within the ring of German forces. Washington DC: Infantry Journal.
Western Allied conquest of Germany (1945)

Warsaw Uprising (1944)

See also