The World War II Bookshelf : Fifty Must-Read Books Book

	Introduction	xi
1	The Big Picture	1
	A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II	3
	The Times Atlas of the Second World War	6
	Brute Force	9
	War in the Shadows	11
	The Battle for History	18
	The Historical Encyclopedia of World War II	21
	The Second World War	24
	The World War II Almanac: 1931-1945	29
	The World War II Databook	30
	Why the Allies Won	33
2	The War in the West (Europe and the Middle East)	39
	Crusade in Europe	41
	Deception in World War II	47
	Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945	55
	Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945	60
	Hitler's Last Weapons	68
	Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy	73
	Popski's Private Army	81
	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	84
	The Battle of Britain	90
	The Last 100 Days	93
	The Wizard War	95
	Ultra in the West: The Normandy Campaign, 1944-45	99
	War As I Knew It	104
3	The War in Russia	119
	Great Battles on the Eastern Front	121
	Russia at War: 1941-1945	130
	Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century	136
	When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler	140
4	The War in the Pacific	145
	A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945	147
	Eagle Against the Sun	151
	Guadalcanal	155
	Japan at War: An Oral History	161
	Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan	164
	Soldiers of the Sun	170
	Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45	175
	The Japanese Navy in World War II in the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers	181
	The Pacific War	185
	The Two-Ocean War	188
	War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945	194
5	Larger Issues	197
	Commandos and Rangers of World War II	199
	Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II	205
	Marching Orders	210
	Reporting World War II	217
	The American Magic	219
	The American Soldier	223
	The Good War	237
	The Shadow Warriors: O.S.S. and the Origins of the C.I.A.	239
	There's a War to Be Won	244
	The United States Strategic Bombing Survey	248
	United States Army in World War II by various authors	254
	Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II	269
	Appendix	281
	Dirty Little Secrets of World War II
	The War in the Pacific Encyclopedia
	Index	287