Course Texts:

Richard Overy, "1939: Countdown to War"

E.B. Sledge, "With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa"

Andrew Roberts, "The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War"

Additional Reading:

Rick Atkinson, “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943”
Rick Atkinson, “The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944”
Rick Atkinson, “The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945”
Correlli Barnett, “Hitler’s Generals”
Antony Beevor, "The Second World War"
Antony Beevor, "Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943"
Antony Beevor, "The Fall of Berlin, 1945"
P.M.H. Bell, “The Origins of the Second World War in Europe”
Tim Bouverie, “Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War”
Martin Gilbert, “Auschwitz and the Allies”
Martin Gilbert, “The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War”
Victor Davis Hanson, "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict was Fought and Won"
John Holland, “The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940”
Alastair Horne, “To Lose a Battle: France, 1940”
Akira Iriye “The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific”
John Keegan, ed., “Churchill’s Generals”
John Keegan, “Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 – Aug. 5, 1944”
Paul Kennedy, "Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War”
Sean McMeekin, “Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II”
Richard Overy, “Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet War Effort, 1941-1945”
Richard Overy, “Why the Allies Won”
Philips Payson O’Brien, “How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II”
Joseph Persico, “Roosevelt’s Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II”
Gordon Prange, “At Dawn We Slept”
Gordon Prange, “Miracle at Midway”
Andrew Roberts, “Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945”
James M. Scott, “Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbor”
James M. Scott, “Rampage: MacArthur: Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila”
James M. Scott, “Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb”
Harold Shukman, “Stalin’s Generals”
Stephen R. Taaffe, “Marshall and His Generals: U.S. Army Commanders in World War II”
A.J.P. Taylor, “The Origins of the Second World War”
Ian W. Toll, “Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942”
Ian W. Toll, “The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944”
Ian W. Toll, “Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945”
Joseph Wheelan, “Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II”
Michael Wildt, “An Uncompromising Generation: The Nazi Leadership of the Reich Security Main Office”