User:Donner60/World War II Library

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This page lists the books about World War II in my personal military history library. I have split it off from User:Donner60/Military History Library because that page was becoming too long, even with American Revolutionary War and American Civil War books already split off. Some of the books on this list concern the war, or battles or aspects or leaders of the war, before American involvement. This page includes biographies, autobiographies and memoirs of military leaders and wartime political leaders.

I created these pages to have a list of books that I use for creating and editing articles. I can use them for easier research and reference. I also have the article titles in at least one of the proper formats for citation in articles.

Some of these books might fit in more than one category below or perhaps in a more specific unused additional category. Except for a few titles as indicated in their entries, I only list each book once under what is, or seems to be, the major category for it in order to limit the space used. A few of these listings are close calls between at least two categories.

Latest update

• October 12, 2023.

Atlases; Chronologies

• Griess, Thomas E., ed. West Point Atlas For The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-7570-0163-5
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• Griess, Thomas E., ed. West Point Atlas For The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-7570-0161-1
  .
• See related Griess titles in next section.
• Naval History Division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. United States Naval Chronology, World War II. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1955.
  OCLC 560943654
  .

• Ellis, John. The Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.
  ISBN 978-0-684-16619-3
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• ISBN 978-0-395-41055-4
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• ISBN 978-0-395-41056-1
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• ISBN 978-0-395-41057-8
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• ISBN 978-0-395-41058-5
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• ISBN 978-0-395-41059-2
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• ISBN 978-0-395-41060-8
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• ISBN 978-0-00-753117-2
  . First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1993.
• ISBN 978-0-8050-7623-3
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• Griess, Thomas E., ed. The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific. The West Point Military History Series. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-7570-0162-8
  . Authors: John H. Bradley and Jack W. Dice. Atlas accompanies.
• Griess, Thomas E., ed. The Second World War: Europe and the Mediterranean. The West Point Military History Series. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, Inc., 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-7570-0160-4
  . Authors: Thomas B. Buell, Clifton R. Franks, John A. Hixson, David R. Mets, Bruce R. Pirnie, James F. Ransone, Jr., Thomas R. Stone. Originally published Wayne, NJ: Avery, 1984. Atlas accompanies.
• ISBN 978-0-307-27359-8
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• ISBN 978-0-14-303573-2
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• Luce, Henry R. editor; John Dille, series editor. Time Capsule: History of the War Years, 1939-1945. New York: Bonanza Books, 1972. Originally published 1967. Condensed from the pages of Time Magazine.
  OCLC 1459585
  .
• ISBN 978-0-486-47962-0
  . Unabridged and republication of original work. Originally published by New York: Random House, 1996.
• OCLC 732826954
  .
• ISBN 978-0-521-61826-7
  .

• ISBN 978-0-465-02464-3
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• Lacey, James (author). The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and The Politics of War That Won World War II. New York: Bantam Books, 2019.
  ISBN 978-0-345-54758-3
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• Wortman, Marc. 1941: Fighting the Shadow War: A Divided American in a World at War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-8021-2511-8
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• ISBN 978-0-7006-1410-3
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• ISBN 978-0-02-906835-9
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• Doubler, Michael D. Closing with the Enemy: How the GIs Fought the War in Europe. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
  ISBN 978-0-7006-0675-7
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• ISBN 978-0-465-06698-8
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• Jacobs, Gregory S. Camp Grant. Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
  ISBN 978-0-7385-3219-6
  . Also under WWI.
• Jordan, Killian. Life Our Finest Hour: Voices of the World War II Generation. Des Moines, IA: LIFE Books, 2000.
  ISBN 978-1-883013-98-1
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• Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. Eyewitness to World War II: Unforgettable Stories and Photographs From History's Greatest Conflict. Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-4262-0970-3
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• ISBN 978-1-4000-6761-9
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• McCombs, Don and Fred L. Worth. World War II: 4,139 Strange and Fascinating Facts. New York: Wings Books, a division of Random House, 1996. Originally published 1983.
  ISBN 978-0-517-42286-1
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• ISBN 978-0-674-00163-3
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• ISBN 978-0-393-03925-2
  . Originally published London: Pimlico, 1995 and New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996.

• ISBN 978-0-306-82465-4
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• Humphrey, Robert E. Once Upon a Time in War: The 99th Division in World War II. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.
  ISBN 978-0-8061-4454-2
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• Nordyke, Phil. All American All the Way: The Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Publishing Company, 2005.
  ISBN 978-0-7603-2201-7
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• ISBN 978-1-78200-410-3
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• Wheeler, James Scott. The Big Red One: America's Legendary 1st Infantry Division from World War I to Desert Storm. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007.
  ISBN 978-0-7006-1552-0
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• Yeide, Harry. The Infantry Armor: The U.S. Army's Separate Tank Battalions in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-0595-0
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• Army Air Forces Aid Society. AAF: The Official World War II Guide to the Army Air Forces; A Directory, Almanac and Chronicle of Achievement. New York: Bonanza Books, 1982. Originally published New York, Simon & Schuster, 1944, as The Official Guide to the Army Air Forces.
  ISBN 978-0-517-66803-0
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• Autobiography, Biography, also see separate section below.
• ISBN 978-0-671-79370-8
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• Bowman, Martin W. USAAF Handbook 1939-1945. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-1822-6
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• ISBN 978-1-59416-039-4
  . See also Atomic Bomb section below
• Keil, Sally VanWagenen. Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines: The Unknown Heroines of World War II. New York: Four Directions Press, 1990. Revised and expanded edition.
  ISBN 978-0-9627659-0-2
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• Link, Mae Mills and Hubert A. Coleman. Medical Support of the Army Air Forces in World War II. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, USAF, 1955.
  OCLC 1310517
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• ISBN 978-0-679-40464-4
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• Autobiography, Biography, also see separate section below.
• ISBN 978-0-316-09784-0
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• Miller, Nathan. War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Originally published by New York: Scribner, 1995.
  ISBN 978-0-19-511038-8
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• ISBN 978-0-7603-2985-6
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• Willmott, H. P. Battleship. London: Cassell, 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-304-35810-6
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• ISBN 978-0-19-090583-5
  . First published in Great Britain by Viking, 2015.
• ISBN 978-1-84022-201-2
  . First published London: Leo Cooper Limited, 1989.

• ISBN 978-0-8050-6288-5
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• ISBN 978-0-8050-6289-2
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• Hindley, Meredith. Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II. New York: Public Affairs/Hatchette Book Group, 2017.
  ISBN 978-1-61039-405-5
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• ISBN 978-0-06-298015-1
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• ISBN 978-0-3043-6654-5
  . First published London: Orion, 2003.
• ISBN 978-1-7876-3294-3
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• ISBN 978-0-00-717646-5
• ISBN 978-0-253-00605-9
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• ISBN 978-1-68247-460-0
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• ISBN 978-1-61251-823-7
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• ISBN 978-0-19-285803-0
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• Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume One: North Africa June 1940–June 1942. London: Grub Street, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-908117-07-6
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• Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk & Winfried Bock. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume Two: North African Desert February 1942–March 1943. London: Grub Street, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-909166-12-7
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• Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk & Winfried Bock. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the End in Africa November 1942–May 1943. London: Grub Street, 2016.
  ISBN 978-1-910690-00-0
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• Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock & Wg Cdr Andy Thomas. A History of the Mediterranean Air War 1940–1945: Volume Four: Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June 1944. London: Grub Street, 2018.
  ISBN 978-1-911621-10-2
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• Shores, Christopher and Giovanni Massimello. With Russell Guest, Frank Olynyk, Winfried Bock & Andrew Thomas. A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the Fall of Rome to the End of the War. London: Grub Street, 2021.
  ISBN 978-1-911621-97-3
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• Stewart, Alexander. The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-300-20855-9
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-3237-6
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-0325-3
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-1168-5
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-1169-2
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-1621-5
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• ISBN 978-0-8021-2560-6
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• ISBN 978-0-8021-2397-8
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• ISBN 978-0-7006-1226-0
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• ISBN 978-0-306-80486-1
  . Originally published New York: Quill, 1986.
• ISBN 978-1-4516-5168-3
  . Originally published New York: Simon & Shuster, 1960.

• ISBN 978-1-4728-0749-6
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• ISBN 978-1-56852-368-2
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• ISBN 978-0-300-07813-8
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• ISBN 978-0-7006-2382-2
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• ISBN 978-0-7006-2121-7
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• Luther, Craig W. H. Barbarossa Unleashed: The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow, June-December 1941. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-4376-6
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• ISBN 978-1-250-75816-3
  . Originally published: Farrar. Straus and Giroux, 2019.

• ISBN 978-0-00-753119-6
  . First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1979.
• ISBN 978-0-141-03065-4
  . First published in Great Britain by Macmillan London, Ltd., 1969 and in the United States of America by Little Brown and Company, 1969.
• ISBN 978-0-8129-9735-4
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• Todman, Daniel. Britain's War: Into Battle, 1937–1941. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-19-062180-3
  . First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane.

• ISBN 978-0-8117-0079-5
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-0144-0
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• ISBN 978-0-19-060189-8
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• ISBN 978-0-307-27571-4
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• ISBN 978-0-8021-2942-0
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• ISBN 978-0-451-49005-6
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• Kershaw, Robert. Landing on the Edge of Eternity: Twenty-Four Hours at Omaha Beach. New York: Pegasus Books, 2020.
  ISBN 978-1-64313-350-8
  . First hardcover edition 2018.
• ISBN 978-0-451-41529-5
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• ISBN 978-0-19-998611-8
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-1228-6
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• ISBN 978-0-525-42982-1
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• Astor, Gerald. The Bloody Forest: Battle for the Huertgen: September 1944 - January 1945. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, Inc., 2000.
  ISBN 978-0-89141-699-9
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• Baumer, Robert W. Aachen: The U.S. Army's Battle for Charlemagne's City in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2015.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-1482-2
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• ISBN 978-0-451-23706-4
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• Miller, Edward G. A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945. College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 1995.
  ISBN 978-0-89096-626-6
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• Wahlman, Alec. Storming the City: U. S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2015.
  ISBN 978-1-57441-622-0
  . (Aachen)

• ISBN 978-0-670-02531-2
  . Originally published in Great Britain by Viking as Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble.
• ISBN 978-0-19-933514-5
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• Cavanagh, William C. C. The Battle East of Elsenborn and the Twin Villages. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-84884-892-4
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• Doherty, J. C. The Shock of War, Volume 2: Unknown Battles That Ruined Adolph Hitler's Plan for a Second Blitzkrieg in the West, December-January, 1944-45. Alexandria, VA: Vert Milon press, 1996.
  ISBN 978-0-9613980-5-7
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• ISBN 978-0-688-15157-7
  . Originally published New York: Harper-Collins, 1985.
• ISBN 978-0-471-73905-0
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• Morelock, Jerry D. Generals of the Bulge: Leadership in the U.S. Army's Greatest Battle. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2015.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-1199-9
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• Wijers, Hans. Battle of the Bulge: Volume Two: Hell at Butgenbach / Seize the Bridges. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-3587-2
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-3777-7
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• ISBN 978-0-00-753118-9
  . First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1977.
• ISBN 978-1-250-00215-0
  . First published in Great Britain by Bantam Press, 2010.

• Astor, Gerald. The Mighty Eighth: The Air War in Europe as Told by the Men Who Fought It. New York: NAL Caliber, trademark of Penguin Random House LLC, 1997.
  ISBN 978-0-425-28157-4
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• Bowman, Martin W. US Eighth Air Force in Europe: Eager Eagles 1941 - Summer 1943, Going Over, Gaining Strength. Volume 1. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-84884-749-1
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• Bowman, Martin W. US Eighth Air Force in Europe: The Eagle Spreads Its Wings,: Blitz Week, Black Thursday, Blood & Oil. Volume 2. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-84884-747-7
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• ISBN 978-1-9803-8651-3
  . First published by Dutton, 1960.
• ISBN 978-1-84513-221-7
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• ISBN 978-0-7432-3545-7
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• ISBN 0-07-134145-5
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• ISBN 978-0-670-02515-2
  . An abridgement of The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945, published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books. The US edition cuts all the chapters on the London blitz and German bombing of Russia and retains only the chapters on the allied bombing of Germany and Italy.
• Stout, Jay A. Hell's Angels: The True Story of the 303rd Bomb Group in World War II. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015.
  ISBN 978-0-425-27409-5
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• Stout, Jay A. The Men Who Killed the Luftwaffe: The U.S. Army Air Forces against Germany in World War II. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2010.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-0659-9
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• ISBN 978-1-62157-208-4
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• ISBN 978-0-8050-6290-8
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• ISBN 978-0-375-71422-1
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• ISBN 978-1-59420-314-5
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• Miller, Edward G. Nothing Less Than Full Victory: Americans at War in Europe, 1944-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-494-6
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• Prefer, Nathan N. Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine: The Battles for the Colmar Pocket. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2015.
  ISBN 978-1-61200-322-1
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• ISBN 978-1-63149-827-5
  . Originally published in German.
• ISBN 978-0-253-20608-4
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• Yeide, Harry. The Longest Battle: September 1944 to February 1945 From Aachen to the Roer and Across. St. Paul, MN: Zenith Press, 2005.
  ISBN 978-0-7603-2155-3
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• Bergerud, Eric M. Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.
  ISBN 978-0-670-86158-3
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• Costello, John. The Pacific War. New York: Quill, 1982. Originally published New York, Rawson, Wade, 1981.
  ISBN 978-0-688-01620-3
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• ISBN 978-1-324-00210-9
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• Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-307-59401-3
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• ISBN 978-0-451-47504-6
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• ISBN 978-0-451-47506-0
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• Miller, Edward S. War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-500-4
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• ISBN 978-0-89526-109-0
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• Rems, Alan. South Pacific Cauldron: World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014.
  ISBN 978-1-61251-471-0
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• ISBN 978-0-394-74101-7
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• ISBN 978-0-8129-6858-3
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• Wilmott, H. P. The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies February To June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2008. Originally published 1983.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-949-1
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• Wilmott, H. P. Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies To April 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010. Originally published 1982.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-948-4
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• ISBN 978-0-552-17203-5
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• ISBN 978-0-618-89425-3
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• ISBN 978-0-7603-4432-3
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• ISBN 978-0-06-074638-4
  . Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

• ISBN 978-0-912006-83-3
  . Reprint edition. Originally published Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
• ISBN 978-0-14-015734-5
  . Originally published: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1981.
• OCLC 307658
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• ISBN 978-0-385-42051-8
  . Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday, 1982.
• Urwin, Gregory J. W. Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake Island. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Bison Books, 2002.
  ISBN 978-0-8032-9562-9
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• Christ, James F. Battalion of the Damned: The 1st Marine Paratroopers at GAVUTU and Bloody Ridge, 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2007.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-114-3
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• Christ, James F. Mission Raise Hell: The U.S. Marines on Choiseul, October-November 1943. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-113-6
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• Day, Ronnie. New Georgia: The Second Battle for the Solomons. Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press, 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-253-01877-9
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• ISBN 978-0-394-58875-9
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• Leckie, Robert. Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War. New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010. Originally published in hard cover New York: Doubleday, 1965. ISBN 978-0-553-3891-2.
• Moore, Stephen L. The Battle for Hell's Island: How a Small Band of Carrier Dive-Bombers Helped Save Guadalcanal. New York: NAL Caliber, 2015.
  ISBN 978-0-451-47375-2
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• Smith, Michael S. Bloody Ridge: The Battle that Saved Guadalcanal. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, Inc., 2000.
  ISBN 978-0-89141-718-7
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• Wheelan, Joseph. Midnight in the Pacific: Guadalcanal, The World War II Battle that Turned the Tide of War. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017.
  ISBN 978-0-306-82459-3
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• Dean, Peter J. (author). MacArthur's Coalition: US and Australian Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2018.
  ISBN 978-0-7006-2604-5
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• Duffy, James P. War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea. New York: New American Library, 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-451-41830-2
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• ISBN 978-0-7603-4559-7
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• ISBN 978-0-7603-4407-1
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• Taaffe, Stephen R. MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
  ISBN 978-0-7006-0870-6
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• ISBN 978-0-451-22138-4
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• ISBN 978-0-312-90788-4
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• Kolakowski, Christopher L. Last Stand on Bataan: The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-7864-7489-9
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• Prados, John. Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Navy. New York: NAL Caliber, trademark of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
  ISBN 978-0-451-47361-5
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• Blair, Bobby C., and John Peter DeCioccio. Victory at Peleliu: The 81st Infantry Division's Pacific Campaign Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014 (paperback). Originally published in hard cover, 2011.
  ISBN 978-0-8061-4680-5
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• Goldberg, Harold J. D-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2077.
  ISBN 978-0-253-34869-2
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• Hallas, James H. Saipan: The Battle That Doomed Japan in World War II. Lanham, MD: Stackpole Books, 2019.
  ISBN 978-0-8117-3843-9
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• Prefer, Nathan N. The Battle for Tinian: Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan. Havertown, PA: Casemate Publishers, 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-61200-094-7
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• Christ, James F. Iwo: Assault on Hell. Chandler, AZ: Battlefields Publishing LLC, 2010.
  ISBN 978-1-4635-6688-3
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• ISBN 978-0-316-53467-3
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• ISBN 978-0-316-41453-1
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• ISBN 978-0-8050-7071-2
  . Originally published New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.
• Sloan, Bill. The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945 - The Last Epic Struggle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008.
  ISBN 978-0-7432-9247-4
  (pbk.)

• Calhoun, Captain C. Raymond. Typhoon: The Other Enemy, The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1981.
  ISBN 978-1-55750-107-3
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• Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey. Pacific Thunder: The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944. New York and Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2017.
  ISBN 978-1-4728-2188-1
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• Cox. Jeffrey R. Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II. Oxford and New York: Osprey Publishing, 2014.
  ISBN 978-1-78096-726-4
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• Cutler, Thomas J. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. Originally published 1994.
  ISBN 978-1-55750-243-8
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• ISBN 978-0-7679-3241-7
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• ISBN 978-0-06-117316-5
  . ("Halsey's Typhoon")
• ISBN 978-0-345-54870-2
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• ISBN 978-0-553-38148-1
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• ISBN 978-0-553-80670-0
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• ISBN 978-0-553-80390-7
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• ISBN 978-0-06-269205-4
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• ISBN 978-0-306-81887-5
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• Lundstrom, John B. The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941 - June 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-417-5
  . Originally published 1976.
• Lundstrom, John B. The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-471-7
  . Originally published in hardcover 1984, revised 1990.
• Lundstrom, John B. The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-472-4
  . Originally published in hardcover, 1994.
• Melton, Jr., Buckner F. Sea Cobra: Admiral Halsey's Task Force and the Great Pacific Typhoon. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2007.
  ISBN 978-1-59228-978-3
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• OCLC 312762843
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• ISBN 978-1-59114-579-0
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• Parshall, Jonathan and Anthony Tully. Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2007. Originally published 2005, first edition 1993.
  ISBN 978-1-57488-923-9
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• Stafford, Edward P. The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Originally published 1962.
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• ISBN 978-0-19-539793-2
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• ISBN 978-0-393-08064-3
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• ISBN 978-0-393-06813-9
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• ISBN 978-0-393-08065-0
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• ISBN 978-0-306-82454-8
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• ISBN 978-1-59114-058-0
  . Originally published New York: Holt, 1952.
• ISBN 978-1-55750-217-9
  . Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.
• ISBN 978-0-252-06670-2
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• ISBN 978-0-528-81058-9
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• Scott, James. The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
  ISBN 978-1-4391-7684-9
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• ISBN 978-0-7509-2767-3
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• Bergerud, Eric M. Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
  ISBN 978-0-8133-3869-9
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• ISBN 978-0-306-90312-0
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• Miller, Jr., Thomas G. The Cactus Air Force. New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Originally published New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
  ISBN 978-0-553-14766-7
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• Morrison, Wilbur H. Point of No Return: The Story of the 20th Air Force. New York: Times Books, 1979.
  ISBN 978-0-8129-0738-4
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• Nelson, Larry. Hell for Honshu: An Army Air Corps Navigator Tells the Story of the World War II Bombing Raids on Japan. Denver: Outskirts Press, Inc. 2008.
  ISBN 978-1-4327-1308-9
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• Scott, James M. Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2022.
  ISBN 978-1-324-00299-4
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• ISBN 978-1-4165-8440-7
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• Campbell, Richard H. The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs. Introduction by
  ISBN 978-0-7864-6907-9
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• Christman, Al. Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  ISBN 978-1-55750-120-2
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• Coster-Mullen, John. Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man. Copyrighted and Published by John Coster-Mullen, 2016.
  OCLC 960175759
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• ISBN 978-0-8117-3961-0
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• ISBN 978-0-306-80189-1
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• Gordin, Michael D. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
  ISBN 978-0-691-12818-4
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• Harder, Robert O. The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015.
  ISBN 978-1-61251-902-9
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• Krauss, Robert; Krauss, Amelia, eds. The 509th Remembered: A History of the 509th Composite Group as Told by the Veterans Themselves, 509th Anniversary Reunion, Wichita, Kansas October 7–10, 2004. Revised (second) edition. Buchanan, Michigan: 509th Press, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-923568-66-5
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• Kunetka, James. The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2015.
  ISBN 978-1-62157-338-8
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• Maddox, Robert James, ed. Hiroshima In History: The Myths of Revisionism. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007.
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• ISBN 978-1-57488-859-1
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• ISBN 978-0-684-81378-3
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• Sheinkin, Steve. Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon. New York: Flash Point, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2012.
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• ISBN 978-0-380-97349-1
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• ISBN 978-0-8128-2150-5
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• ISBN 978-0-942397-11-6
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• ISBN 978-0-9703666-0-3
  . (autographed by Paul Tibbets)
• ISBN 978-0-8128-2157-4
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• Walker, Stephen. Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
  ISBN 978-0-06-074284-3
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• Allen, Thomas B and
  ISBN 978-0-684-80406-4
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• Barrett, David Dean. 140 Days to Hiroshima: The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon. New York: Diversion Books, 2020.
  ISBN 978-1-63576-581-6
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• ISBN 978-1-62157-506-1
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• ISBN 978-1-5040-4689-3
  . Originally published 1967.
• ISBN 978-0-14-100146-3
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• Geoghegan, John J. Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plan to Change the Course of World War II. New York, Crown Publishers, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-307-46480-4
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• Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-316-1
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• Heinrichs, Waldo and Marc Gallicchio. Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  ISBN 978-0-19-061675-5
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• ISBN 978-0-307-27536-3
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• Walker, Paul D. Truman's Dilemma: Invasion or the Bomb. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2003.
  ISBN 978-1-58980-119-6
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• Weintraub, Sidney (historian). The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July /August 1945. New York: Trutton Talley/Dutton, 1995.
  ISBN 978-0-525-93687-9
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• ISBN 978-0-451-21510-9
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• ISBN 978-0-316-40532-4
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• Buell, Thomas B. Master of Seapower: A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2012. Originally published Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-042-9
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• Buell, Thomas B. The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. Originally published Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974; Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987.
  ISBN 978-1-59114-085-6
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• Cray, Ed. General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman. New York, Cooper Square Press, 2000. Originally published 1990.
  ISBN 978-0-8154-1042-3
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• Dietz, Suzanne Simon. My True Course: Dutch Van Kirk Northumberland to Hiroshima. Lawrenceville, GA: Red Gremlin Press LLC, 2012.
  ISBN 978-0-692-01676-3
  . (autographed by Dutch Van Kirk)
• ISBN 978-1-59416-138-4
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• ISBN 978-1-59416-011-0
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• Ferguson, Harvey. The Last Cavalryman: The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
  ISBN 978-0-8061-4664-5
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• Harris, Brayton. Admiral Nimitz: The Commander of the Pacific Ocean Theater. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
  ISBN 978-0-230-10765-6
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• ISBN 978-0-307-26839-6
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• Hoffman, Lt. Col. Jon T. Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC. New York: Random House, 2001.
  ISBN 978-0-679-44732-0
  . also listed in Korean War section.
• ISBN 978-1-62157-299-2
  . Originally published in hardcover, 2009; first paperback edition, 2011.
• ISBN 978-0-316-02474-7
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• ISBN 978-0-316-50111-8
  . Originally published by Little, Brown and Company, 1980.
• ISBN 978-0-316-54503-7
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• ISBN 978-0-316-54503-7
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• ISBN 978-0-316-54770-3
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• ISBN 978-0-671-86920-5
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• ISBN 978-0-89141-784-2
  . autographed by Jim Megellas.
• Paterson, Michael. Winston Churchill: His military life 1895-1945. Newton Abbot, Devon, UK: David & Charles, 2005.
  ISBN 978-0-7153-1964-2
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• ISBN 978-0-465-01328-9
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• ISBN 978-0-87021-492-9
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• Roll, David L. George Marshall: Defender of the Republic. New York: Dutton Caliber, 2019.
  ISBN 978-1-101-99097-1
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• ISBN 978-1-4000-6693-3
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• Taaffe, Stephen R. Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2011.
  ISBN 978-0-7006-1812-5
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• ISBN 978-1-59114-850-0
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• Wheeler, James Scott. Jacob L. Devers: A General's Life. Lexington, KY: The University of Kentucky Press, 2015.
  ISBN 978-0-8131-6602-5
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• ISBN 978-0-230-60284-7
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• Yenne, Bill. Hap Arnold: General Who Invented the U.S. Air Force. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2013.
  ISBN 978-1-62157-081-3
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• ISBN 978-0-451-22990-8
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• ISBN 978-0-938300-08-3
  . Autographed by George Gay.
• ISBN 978-0-553-59331-0
  . Originally published in hard cover by New York: Random House, 1957.
• ISBN 978-1-58080-038-9
  . Originally published Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, 1947.
• Makos, Adam with Marcus Brotherton. Voices of the Pacific: Untold Stories from the Marine Heroes of World War II. New York: Berkley Caliber (Penguin Group, USA), 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-425-25782-1
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• ISBN 978-0-8914-1906-8
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• Sweeney, Charles W. See Pacific: Atomic Bomb,; 509th Section above.
• Tibbets, Jr., Paul W. See Pacific: Atomic Bomb,; 509th Section above.
• Wilson, George. If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II - One American Officer's Riveting True Story. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. A Presidio Press Book.
  ISBN 978-0-8041-0003-8
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• ISBN 978-0-544-94729-0
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• Camp, Dick. Shadow Warriors: The Untold Stories of American Special Operations During WWII. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-7603-4429-3
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• ISBN 978-0-14-311202-0
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• ISBN 978-1-101-90416-9
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• ISBN 978-1-250-13492-9
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• ISBN 978-0-300-23844-0
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• ISBN 978-0-465-00312-9
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• Beyer, Rick and Elizabeth Sayles. The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects and Other Audacious Fakery. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2015.
  ISBN 978-1-61689-318-7
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• ISBN 978-1-58574-692-7
  . Originally published: London: A Comet Book, 1975 and New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
• ISBN 978-0-7432-1734-7
  . Originally published: 2000.
• ISBN 978-0-307-59596-6
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• Carlson, Elliot. Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011.
  ISBN 978-1-61251-060-6
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• ISBN 978-1-4000-8106-6
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• ISBN 978-1-4391-4768-9
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• ISBN 978-0-06-225927-1
  . First published in the United Kingdom by William Collins, 2015.
• ISBN 978-1-59403-088-8
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• ISBN 978-0-300-08462-7
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• ISBN 978-1-61039-684-4
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• Holt, Thaddeus. The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007. Originally published New York: Scribner, 2004.
  ISBN 978-1-61608-079-2
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• Kagan, Neil, and Stephen G. Hyslop. The Secret History of World War II: Spies, Code Breakers and Covert Operations. Washington: National Geographic, 2016.
  ISBN 978-1-4262-1701-2
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• Koster, John. Operation Snow: How A Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing Inc., 2012.
  ISBN 978-1-59698-322-9
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• ISBN 978-0-307-88875-4
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• ISBN 978-1-4450-9937-8
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• ISBN 978-1-250-11902-5
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• ISBN 978-0-316-43989-3
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• ISBN 978-0-7352-2529-9
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• ISBN 978-0-89526-225-7
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• ISBN 978-0-451-49508-2
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• ISBN 978-1-62616-058-3
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• ISBN 978-0-375-75536-1
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• Brown, Christopher P. U.S. Military Patches of World War II. Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Company, 2002.
  ISBN 978-1-68162-386-3
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• De Bree, Hans. World War II U.S. Made Fully Machine-Embroidered, Cut-Edge, Should Sleeve Insignia and How They Were Manufactured. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2013
  ISBN 978-0-7643-4355-1
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• Maguire, Jon A. More Silver Wings, Pinks & Greens: An Expanded Study of USAS, USAAC & USAAF Uniforms, Wings & Insignia 1913-1945, Including Civilian Auxiliaries. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 1996.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-0091-2
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• Maguire, Jon A. Silver Wings, Pinks & Greens: Uniforms, Wings & Insignia of USAAF Airmen in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military/Aviation History, 1994.
  ISBN 978-0-88740-578-5
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• Morgan, J. L. Pete. United States Military Patch Guide: Guide to United States Military Shoulder Sleeve Insignia. Fountain Inn, SC: MOA Press, 2015.
  ISBN 978-1-884452-37-6
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• Smith, Richard W.; Roy A. Pelz, ed. Shoulder Sleeve Insignia of the U.S. Armed Forces 1941-1945. 3rd edition. United States: Richard W. Smith, 1981.
  ISBN 978-0-9618883-3-6
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• Stein, Barry Jason. U.S. Army Patches, Flashes and Ovals: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cloth Unit Insignia. Revised edition. United States: Insignia Ventures, 2007.
  ISBN 978-0-9791613-0-8
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• Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II, Volume I: (VIII) Bomber Command. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2004.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-1987-7
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• Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II, Volume II: (VIII) Fighter Command. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2006.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-2535-9
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• Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume III: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Ninth Air Force in World War Two, The Orphan Air Force of the ETO. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2008.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-2938-8
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• Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume IV: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; European-African-Middle Eastern Theater of Operations. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2009.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-3401-6
  . (DAF, MAAF, 9th, 12th, 15th Air Forces)
• Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume V: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II; Pacific Theater of Operations. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2013.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-4346-9
  . (5th, 7th, 11th, 13th, Far East Air Forces)
• Watkins, Robert A. Battle Colors: Volume VI: Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the U.S, Army Air Forces in World War II; China-Burma-India & The Western Pacific. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2017.
  ISBN 978-0-7643-5273-7
  . (AVG, Special Operations Units, 10th, 14th, 20th Air Forces)

• ISBN 978-0-8262-1119-4
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