The University of Montana
The Department of History
Professor Harry Fritz
American Military History
Reading List
1999
10. The Second World War, 1939-1945
Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II (1994).
John Keegan, The Second World War (NY, 1990).
H.P. Willmott, The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War (NY, 1990). The book to read.
James Stokesbury, A Short History of World War II (NY, 1982).
John Ellis, Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War (NY, 1991).
Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (NY, 1996).
Geoffrey Perret, There's A War to be Won: The United States Army in World War II (NY, 1991).
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Two-Ocean War (1963).
Nathan Miller, War At Sea: A Naval History of World War II (Phildelphia, 1995).
Dan van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign (1989).
Clay Blair, Hitler's U-Boat War Vol. I: The Hunters, 1939-1942. Vol. II: The Hunted, 1942-1944 (NY, 1996, 1998).
Stephen E. Ambrose, The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Baltimore, 1970).
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower (2v, NY, 1983-84).
David Eisenhower, Eisenhower: At War, 1943-1945 (NY, 1986).
Russell F. Weigley, Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-45 (1981). The book to read.
Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War (NY, 1995).
Eric Morris, Circles of Hell: The War in Italy, 1943-1945 (NY, 1993).
Stephen E. Ambrose, D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994).
Stephen E. Ambrose. Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 (NY, 1997).
Trevor N. Dupuy et. al., Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945 (1994).
Charles B. MacDonald, A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Bulge (NY, 1984).
Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day (NY, 1959); A Bridge Too Far (1974); The Last Battle (1966).
Martin Gilbert, The Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945-Victory in Europe (NY, 1995).
Stanley Weintraub, The Last Great Victory: The End of World War II, July/August 1945 (NY, 1995).
Walter J. Boyne, Clash of Wings: World War II in the Air (1994).
Geoffrey Perret, Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II (NY, 1993).
Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (1996).
Ronald H. Spector, Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan (NY, 1985). The book to read.
William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 (1978).
Michael Schaller, Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General (NY, 1989).
Geoffrey Perret, Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur (NY, 1996).
Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (1981).
Gordon W. Prange, Miracle at Midway (1983).
Richard B. Frank, Guadalcanal (NY, 1990).
Michael B. Graham, Mantle of Heroism: Tarawa and the Struggle for the Gilberts, November 1943 (1993).
Thomas J. Cutler, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23-26 October, 1944 (1994).
Richard F. Newcomb, Iwo Jima (NY, 1965).
Robert Leckie, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II (NY, 1995).
George Feifer, Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb (NY, 1992).
Eric Bergerud, Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific (NY, 1996).
Stephen R. Taafe. MacArthur's Jungle War: The 1944 New Guinea Campaign (Kansas, 1998).
Clay Blair, Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War against Japan (1975).
E. Bartlett Kerr, Flames over Tokyo: The U.S. Army Air Force's Incendiary Campaign Against Japan (1991).
A. Russell Buchanan, The United States and World War II (2v, NY, 1964).
William L. O'Neill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II (NY, 1993).
Michael C.C. Adams, The Best War Ever: America and World War II (1987).
Gerald E. Linderman, The World Within War: America's Combat Experience in World War II (NY, 1997).
