World War Two Books
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World War Two - general best sellers about WW2
Biographies
Winston Churchill - Britain's great wartime Prime Minister
Dwight Eisenhower - Overlord Supreme Commander
Admiral Bull Halsey
Emperor Hirohito - Emperor of Japan during WW2
Adolf Hitler - Nazi dictator of the Third Reich
Douglas MacArthur - "I shall return."
Bernard Montgomery - victor at El Alamein
Admiral Nimitz
George S. Patton - Third Army tank general
Franklin Roosevelt - President of the United States
Albert Speer - German minister of production
Joseph Stalin - Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Hideki Tojo
Harry Truman - U.S. President in 1945
Admiral Yamamoto - chief of Japan's Combined Fleet, architect of Pearl Harbor
Battles
Fall of Berlin - The Last Battle in Europe
Battle of Britain - "Their Finest Hour"
D-Day and Normandy - Overlord, June 6, 1944
Stalingrad - turning point in the East
Siege of Leningrad - the 900 Days
Pearl Harbor - "December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy"
Midway - turning point in the Pacific
Guadalcanal - struggle for Henderson Field
Iwo Jima
Leyte Gulf - the end of the Japanese fleet, the Battle of Philippine Sea
Coral Sea - first great carrier battle in history
Weapons
- P-51 Mustang - best fighter of WW2
- Supermarine Spitfire - dominant in the Battle of Britain
- Lockheed P-38 Lightning - big, twin engine fighter
- Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - "Seven Ton Milk Jug"
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk - the Flying Tigers' airplane
- USS Yorktown
- USS Lexington
- USS Enterprise
- Bismarck
- Yamato - Japan's super battleship
Other WW2 Subjects
Air War
Atlases
Naval
Hiroshima & Nagasaki - atomic bomb targets
Intelligence Operations - Enigma, spies, Bletchley Park, OSS
Personal Narratives
Women in WW2
Documentary Videos
Holocaust
Favorite WWII Authors
Stephen Ambrose - Band of Brothers and many others
Carlo D'Este
Walter Lord
David McCullough
Gordon Prange - big, scholarly books on the Pacific War
Cornelius Ryan - The Longest Day and others
William Shirer - The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and more
John Toland
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