HISTORY 144

THE WORLD AT WAR: 1939-1945

Philip Jenkins

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/

LIST OF (A FEW) POSSIBLE RECENT BOOKS FOR YOUR REVIEWS

ANY book chosen from this list is automatically approved as a subject for your book review.

This is not intended as any kind of comprehensive bibliography. I don’t necessarily vouch for the quality of every single work listed here; nor does the fact of inclusion mean that I agree with the conclusions of any particular book.

Götz Aly, Hitler's Beneficiaries (2008)

Anonymous, A Woman In Berlin (2005)

Rick Atkinson, The Day of Battle (2007)

Alan Axelrod, Bradley (2007)

Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke (2008)

Joseph Balkoski, Omaha Beach (2004)

John Barber, ed., Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad (2005)

Daniel Barenblatt, A Plague Upon Humanity (2004)

Niall Barr, Pendulum of War (2005)

Dixee Bartholomew-Feis, The OSS and Ho Chi Minh (2006)

Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies (2004)

Colin Beavan, Operation Jedburgh (2006)

Chris Bellamy, Absolute War (2007)

Karl C. Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair (2004)

Michael Bess, Choices Under Fire (2006)

John Bierman and Colin Smith, War Without Hate (2004)

George J. Billy and Christine M. Billy, Merchant Mariners at War (2008)

Marcus Binney, Secret War Heroes (2005)

Rodric Braithwaite, Moscow 1941 (2006)

Robert S. Burrell, The Ghosts of Iwo Jima (2006)

Dick Camp, Last Man Standing (2009)

Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Between Nazis and Soviets (2004)

Robert Citino, Death of the Wehrmacht (2007)

Lloyd Clark, Anzio (2006)

B.Jack Copeland, Colossus (2006)

Norman Davies, Rising ’44 (2004)

Norman Davies, No Simple Victory (2007)

Donald A. Davis, Lightning Strike (2005)

Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke, The Secret in Building 26 (2004)

Carlo D'Este, Warlord (2008)

Michael Dobbs, Saboteurs (2004)

Robert Dorr and Thomas Jones, Hell Hawks (2008)

Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon (2007)

James P. Duffy, Target America (2004)

Gerald L Duskin and Ralph Segman, If the Gods Are Good (2004)

Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War (2009)

Joachim Fest, Inside Hitler's Bunker (2004)

Daniel Ford, Flying Tigers (2007)

Jean-Jacques Fouché, Massacre at Oradour, France, 1944 (2004)

Jörg Friedrich, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 (2008)

Stephen G. Fritz, Endkampf (2004)

Ian Gardner, Tonight We Die As Men (2009)

Martin Gilbert, D-Day (2004)

David M. Glantz, Colossus Reborn (2005)

David M. Glantz, Red Storm over the Balkans (2005)

Harold J. Goldberg, D-Day in the Pacific (2007)

John Gooch, Mussolini and his Generals (2007)

A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities (2006)

Winston Groom, 1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls (2005)

Vasily Grossman, A Writer At War (2005)

Ned Handy, The Flame Keepers (2004)

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy (2005)

Max Hastings, Armageddon (2004)

Max Hastings, Retribution (2008)

Mark Healy, Zitadelle (2008)

Jeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy (2008)

James Holland, Together We Stand (2006)

Joel Ira Holwitt, "Execute Against Japan" (2009)

James D. Hornfischer, Last Stand Of The Tin Can Sailors (2004)

Robert E. Humphrey, Once Upon a Time in War (2008)

Dallas Woodbury Isom, Midway Inquest (2007)

Michael Jones, Leningrad: State of Siege (2007)

Michael Jones, Stalingrad (2007)

Victor Kamenir, The Bloody Triangle (2009)

Alvin Kernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway (2006)

Alex Kershaw, The Longest Winter (2004)

Ian Kershaw, Fateful Choices (2008)

Ian Kershaw, Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution (2008)

Paul Koistinen, Arsenal of World War II (2004)

Michael Korda, With Wings Like Eagles (2009)

Kerry L. Lane, Guadalcanal Marine (2004)

Christian Leitz, Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941 (2004)

Tony Le Tissier, Slaughter at Halbe (2005)

John Lukacs, June 1941: Hitler and Stalin (2006)

Henrik Lunde, Hitler's Preemptive War (2009)

Brian MacArthur, Surviving the Sword (2005)

Giles MacDonogh, After the Reich (2007)

Ben Macintyre, Agent Zigzag (2007)

Sean L. Malloy, Atomic Tragedy (2008)

John C. McManus, The Americans at D-Day (2004)

John C. McManus, The Americans at Normandy (2004)

Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire (2008)

Geoffrey P. Megargee, War of Annihilation (2006)

Catherine Merridale, Ivan's War (2005)

Donald L Miller, D-Days in the Pacific (2004)

Donald L Miller, Masters of the Air (2006)

Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler (2006)

Sam Moses, At All Costs (2006)

Norman Moss, Nineteen Weeks (2004)

Robert J. Mrazek, A Dawn Like Thunder (2008)

David Murphy, What Stalin Knew (2005)

Andrew Nagorski, The Greatest Battle (2007)

Robin Neillands, Eighth Army (2004)

Robin Neillands, The Dieppe Raid (2005)

Robin Neillands, The Battle for the Rhine (2007)

John Nichol and Tony Rennell, Tail-End Charlies (2004)

Phil Nordyke, More Than Courage (2008)

Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman, Tears in the Darkness (2009)

Herman J. Obermayer, Soldiering For Freedom (2005)

Pierce O’Donnell, In Time of War (2005)

Vincent P. O'Hara, Struggle for the Middle Sea (2009)

Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men (2007)

Stanley G. Payne, Franco and Hitler (2008)

Constantine Pleshakov, Stalin’s Folly (2005)

Douglas Porch, The Path to Victory (2004)

Walter Reid, Churchill 1940-1945 (2008)

Ralf Georg Reuth, Rommel (2006)

Michael Reynolds, Monty and Patton (2005)

Andrew Roberts, Masters and Commanders (2009)

Andrew J. Rotter, Hiroshima (2008)

Ed Ruggero, Combat Jump (2004)

Wolfgang W.E. Samuel, American Raiders (2004)

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Dunkirk (2006)

M. G. Sheftall, Blossoms in the Wind (2005)

Ben Shepherd, War in the Wild East (2004).

Kenneth Slepyan, Stalin’s Guerrillas (2006)

Bill Sloan, Brotherhood of Heroes (2005)

Bruce C. Smith, The War Comes to Plum Street (2005)

Colin Smith, Singapore Burning (2005)

Colin Smith, England's Last War Against France (2009)

Ronald Spector, In the Ruins of Empire (2007)

David Stafford, Endgame, 1945 (2007)

Peter Stansky, The First Day of the Blitz (2007)

Robert W. Stephan, Stalin's Secret War (2004)

Michael Sturma, The USS Flier (2008)

Frederick Taylor, Dresden (2004)

Barrett Tillman, Clash of the Carriers (2005)

Barrett Tillman, LeMay (2007)

Barbara Brooks Tomblin, With Utmost Spirit (2004)

Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction (2007)

Peter G. Tsouras, ed., Battle of the Bulge (2004)

Anthony P. Tully, Battle of Surigao Strait (2009)

Barry Turner, Countdown to Victory (2004)

Krisztian Ungvary, The Siege of Budapest (2005)

Richard Vinen, The Unfree French (2006)

Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff, with Paul Hausser, Fighting the Breakout (2004)

Stephen Walker, Shockwave (2005)

Maureen Waller, London 1945 (2005)

James A. Warren, American Spartans (2005)

Albert L. Weeks, Russia’s Life-Saver (2004)

Gerhard Weinberg, Visions of Victory (2005)

Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars (2007)

Flint Whitlock, The Fighting First (2004)

Olivier Wievorka, Normandy (2008)

H. P. Willmott, The Battle of Leyte Gulf (2005)

Derrick Wright, To the Far Side of Hell (2005)

Emily Yellin, Our Mothers' War (2004)

Thomas W. Zeiler, Unconditional Defeat (2004)

Derek S. Zumbro, Battle for the Ruhr (2006)