Further Reading


  • Alexander, Joseph H.Storm Landings: Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
  • ____________.Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Alexander, Joseph H., with Don Horan and Norman C. Stahl.A Fellowship of Valor: The Battle History of the United States Marines. Foreword by Edwin H. Simmons. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
  • Ambrose, Stephen E.Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
  • ____________.D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
  • ____________.Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
  • Astor, Gerald.A Blood-Dimmed Tide: The Battle of the Bulge by the Men Who Fought It. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1992.
  • ____________.Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa in World War II. New York: D. I. Fine, 1995.
  • ____________.Wings of Gold: The U.S. Naval Air Campaign in World War II. New York: Presidio Press/Ballantine Books, 2004.
  • Atkinson, Rick.An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
  • Badsey, Stephen.Modern Air Power: Fighters. New York: Gallery Books, 1990.
  • Baird, Jay W.The Mythical World of Nazi War Propaganda, 1939–1945. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974.
  • Balfour, Michael.Propaganda in War, 1939–1945. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979.
  • Balkoski, Joseph.Beyond the Beachhead: The Twenty-ninth Infantry Division in Normandy. Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1999.
  • ____________.Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2004.
  • Beach, Edward L.Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Beck, John J.MacArthur and Wainwright: Sacrifice of the Philippines. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.
  • Beschloss, Michael.The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
  • Bicheno, Hugh.Midway. London: Cassell, 2001.
  • Bishop, Chris, and Chris McNab, eds.Campaigns of World War II Day by Day. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron’s, 2003.
  • Blair, Clay.Hitler’s U-Boat War. 2 vols. New York: Random House, 1996–1998.
  • ____________.Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2001.
  • Blumenson, Martin.The Battle of the Generals: The Untold Story of the Falaise Pocket–the Campaign That Should Have Won World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1993.
  • ____________.Mark Clark. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1984.
  • ____________.Salerno to Cassino. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1969.
  • Breuer, William B.The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1994.
  • ____________.They Jumped at Midnight: The “Crash” Parachute Missions That Turned the Tide at Salerno. New York: Jove Books, 1990.
  • Buchheim, Lothar-Gunther.U-Boat War. New York: Bonanza Books, 1986.
  • Buckner, Simon Bolivar.Seven Stars: The Okinawa Battle Diaries of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. and Joseph Stilwell. Edited by Nicholas Evan Sarantakes. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004.
  • Burgett, Donald R.Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1999.
  • Chamberlain, Peter, and Charles Ellis.British and American Tanks of World War II: The Complete Illustrated History of British, American, and Commonwealth Tanks, 1939–1945. New York: Arco, 1969.
  • Chandler, David G., and James L. Collins, Jr.The D-Day Encyclopedia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
  • Chrisman, Catherine Bell.My War: WW II, as Experienced by One Woman Soldier. Denver, Colo.: Maverick, 1989.
  • Christy, Joe.American Aviation: An Illustrated History. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1987.
  • Clausen, Henry C., and Bruce Lee.Pearl Harbor: Final Judgment. New York: Crown, 1992.
  • Cole, Hugh M.The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1994.
  • Cole, Jean Hascall.Women Pilots of World War II. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992.
  • Collins, Donald E.Native American Aliens: Disloyalty and the Renunciation of Citizenship by Japanese Americans During World War II. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
  • Condon, John Pomeroy.Corsairs and Flattops: Marine Carrier Air Warfare, 1944–1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
  • Conn, Stetson, Rose C. Engelman, and Byron Fairchild.The United States Army in World War II: Guarding the United States and Its Outposts. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1964.
  • Conroy, Robert.The Battle of Bataan: America’s Greatest Defeat. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
  • Cooksley, Peter G., and Bruce Robertson.Air Warfare: The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Conflict. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1998.
  • Coulthard-Clark, C. D.Action Stations Coral Sea: The Australian Commander’s Story. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991.
  • Cressman, Robert J., et al.A Glorious Page in Our History. Missoula, Mont.: Pictorial Histories, 1990.
  • Currie, David B.The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century– 1888–1986. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
  • Cutler, Thomas J.The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23–26 October 1944. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
  • Daniels, Roger.Concentration Camps U.S.A.: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
  • ____________.The Decision to Relocate the Japanese Americans. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975.
  • Degan, Patrick.Flattop Fighting in World War II: The Battles Between American and Japanese Aircraft Carriers. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2003.
  • Dencker, Donald O.Love Company: Infantry Combat Against the Japanese, World War II: Leyte and Okinawa: Company L, 383rd Infantry Regiment, Ninety-sixth Infantry Division. Manhattan, Kans.: Sunflower University Press, 2002.
  • Denfeld, D. Colt.Hold the Marianas: The Japanese Defense of the Mariana Islands. Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane, 1997.
  • Doubler, Michael D.Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
  • Dunmore, Spencer.In Great Waters: The Epic Story of the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1945. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999.
  • Duskin, Gerald, and Ralph Segman.If the Gods Are Good: The Epic Sacrifice of HMS Jervis Bay. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
  • Dyess, Wm. E.Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account. Edited and with a biographical introduction by Charles Leavelle. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.
  • Edwards, Bernard.The Twilight of the U-Boats. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
  • Ellis, John.Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. New York: Viking, 1990.
  • Falk, Stanley L.Decision at Leyte. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1989.
  • Foster, Barry J.The Last Destroyer: The Story of the USS Callaghan. Haverford, Pa.: Infinity, 2002.
  • Frank, Richard B.Guadalcanal. New York: Random House, 1990.
  • Fremon, David K.Japanese-American Internment in American History. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow, 1996.
  • Friedman, Kenneth I.Afternoon of the Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 2001.
  • Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya.Midway. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institutes Press, 1955.
  • Gannon, Michael.Black May. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
  • ____________.Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany’s First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II. New York: Harper & Row, 1990.
  • Giangreco, D. M., with Kathryn Moore.Eyewitness D-Day: Firsthand Accounts from the Landing at Normandy to the Liberation of Paris. Edited and with a foreword by Norman Polmar. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004.
  • Gilbert, Martin.D-Day. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley & Sons, 2004.
  • Gilbert, Oscar E.Marine Tank Battles in the Pacific. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Publishing, 2001.
  • Grace, James W.The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: Night Action, 13 November 1942. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
  • Graham, Michael B.Mantle of Heroism: Tarawa and the Struggle for the Gilberts, November 1943. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1997.
  • Grahlfs, F. Lincoln.Undaunted: The Story of a United States Navy Tug and Her Crew in World War II. St. Louis, Mo.: Author, 2002.
  • Gregg, Charles T.Tarawa. New York: Stein and Day, 1984.
  • Hallas, James H.Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996.
  • Hammel, Eric M.Guadalcanal–Decision at Sea: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, November 13–15, 1942. Pacifica, Calif.: Pacifica Press, 1999.
  • Hammel, Eric M., and John E. Lane.Bloody Tarawa. Pacifica, Calif.: Pacifica Military History, 1998.
  • Hart, Russell A.Clash of Arms: How the Allies Won in Normandy. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2001.
  • Hart, Stephen A.Montgomery and Colossal Cracks: The Twenty-first Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944–1945. New York: Praeger, 2000.
  • Harvey, Robert.Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado During World War II. Dallas, Tex.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003.
  • Harwood, Richard.A Close Encounter: The Marine Landing on Tinian. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.
  • Hastings, Max.Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
  • Hayashi, Brian Masaru.Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
  • Henry, Chris.The Battle of the Coral Sea. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003.
  • Herken, Gregg.Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York: Henry Holt, 2002.
  • Hess, Gary.The United States at War: 1941–1945. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1986.
  • Hoffman, Carl W.The Seizure of Tinian. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951.
  • Holt, Thaddeus.The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War. New York: Scribner, 2004.
  • Hornfischer, James D.The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors. New York: Bantam Books, 2004.
  • Hoyt, Edwin Palmer.The Men of the Gambier Bay. Introduction by Thomas H. Moorer. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2002.
  • The Impact of the War on America: Six Lectures by Members of the Faculty of Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1942.
  • Inada, Lawson Fusao, ed.Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2000.
  • Jasper, Joy Waldron, James P. Delgado, and Jim Adams.The USS Arizona: The Ship, the Men, and Pearl Harbor Attack, and the Symbol That Aroused America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
  • Josephy, Alvin M.The Long and the Short and the Tall: The Story of a Marine Combat Unit in the Pacific. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
  • Kaminski, Theresa.Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
  • Kaplan, Philip, and Jack Currie.Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  • ____________.Wolfpack: U-Boats at War, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1997.
  • Katz, Robert.The Battle for Rome: The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
  • Keegan, John.The Second World War. London: Penguin Books, 1989.
  • Kelly, Orr.Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa, from Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia. New York: J. Wiley, 2002.
  • Kitano, Harry H. L.Japanese Americans: The Evolution of a Subculture. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
  • Knightley, Phillip.The First Casualty. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
  • Knox, Donald.Death March: The Survivors of Bataan. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
  • Kutler, Stanley, ed.The Supreme Court and the Constitution: Readings in American Constitutional History. 2d ed. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.
  • Leckie, Robert.Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II. New York: Viking, 1995.
  • Lee, Robert Edward.Victory at Guadalcanal. Novato, Calif.: Presido Press, 1981.
  • Lord, Walter.Day of Infamy. 60th anniversary ed. New York: H. Holt, 2001.
  • Lorelli, John A.To Foreign Shores: U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Lowry, Thomas P., and John Wellham.The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1995.
  • Loza, D. F.Attack of the Airacobras: Soviet Aces, American P-39s, and the Air War Against Germany. Translated and edited by James F. Gebhardt. Introduction by Von Hardesty. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
  • Lundstrom, John B.The First South Pacific Campaign. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1976.
  • ____________.The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
  • Lyne, Mary C., and Kay Arthur.Three Years Behind the Mast: The Story of the United States Coast Guard, SPARS. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Coast Guard, 1946.
  • MacDonald, Charles B.A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York: Morrow, 1985.
  • McIntosh, Elizabeth P.Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
  • Macintyre, Donald.U-Boat Killer: Fighting the U-Boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. London: Cassell, 1999.
  • McManus, John C.The Americans at D-Day: The American Experience at the Normandy Invasion. New York: Forge, 2004.
  • ____________.The Americans at Normandy: The Summer of 1944–the American War from the Normandy Beaches to Falaise. New York: Forge, 2004.
  • ____________.Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 2000.
  • Mann, B. David.Avenging Bataan: The Battle of Zigzag Pass. Raleigh, N.C.: Pentland Press, 2001.
  • Mansoor, Peter R.The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941–1945. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
  • Marion, Ore J., with Thomas Cuddihy and Edward Cuddihy.On the Canal: The Marines of L-3–5 on Guadalcanal, 1942. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2004.
  • Mathews, Joseph J.Reporting the Wars. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957.
  • Monahan, Evelyn M., and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee.All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
  • ____________.And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2003.
  • Morris, Eric.Salerno: A Military Fiasco. New York: Stein and Day, 1983.
  • Morrison, Samuel Eliot.Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions. Vol. 4 in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. New York: Little, Brown, 1964.
  • ____________.The Struggle for Guadalcanal. Vol. 5 in History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. New York: Little, Brown, 1964.
  • Morrison, Wilbur H.Birds from Hell: History of the B-29. Central Point, Oreg.: Hellgate Press, 2001.
  • Morton, Louis.The Fall of the Philippines: History of the United States Army in World War II–the War in the Pacific. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1953.
  • Muller, Eric L.Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. Foreword by Daniel K. Inouye. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
  • Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett.A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • Neill, George W.Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
  • Nesmith, Jeff.No Higher Honor: The U.S.S. Yorktown at the Battle of Midway. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet, 1999.
  • Newcomb, Richard F.Iwo Jima. 2d rev ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2002.
  • Nieva, Antonio A.The Fight for Freedom: Remembering Bataan and Corregidor. Quezon City, Philippines: New Day, 1997.
  • Norman, Elizabeth M.We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. New York: Random House, 1999.
  • Norris, Robert S.Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project’s Indispensable Man. South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 2002.
  • O’Brien, Francis.Battling for Saipan. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
  • O’Donnell, Patrick K.Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat. New York: Free Press, 2002.
  • O’Neill, William L.A Democracy at War. New York: Free Press, 1993. Discusses many economic issues relating to World War II.
  • Overy, Richard.Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995.
  • Owens, William J.Green Hell: The Battle for Guadalcanal. Central Point, Oreg.: Hellgate Press, 1999.
  • Parker, Danny S., ed.Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive: The German View of the Battle of the Bulge. London: Greenhill Press, 1997.
  • Petty, Bruce M.Voices from the Pacific War: Bluejackets Remember. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2004.
  • Pitt, Barrie. “Italy’s Pearl Harbor.”Military History Quarterly 3 (Spring, 1991): 50–57.
  • Prange, Gordon W.At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: Viking, 1991.
  • ____________.Miracle at Midway. New York: McGraw Hill, 1982.
  • Prange, Gordon W., with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon.Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. 1991. Reprint. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
  • Rhodes, Richard.The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
  • Robinson, Greg.By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001.
  • Ross, Bill D.Iwo Jima. New York: Vintage, 1986.
  • Ryan, Cornelius.The Longest Day. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
  • Schom, Alan.The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1943, Pearl Harbor Through Guadalcanal. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
  • Schrijvers, Peter.The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
  • Shaw, Henry I.Tarawa: A Legend Is Born. New York: Ballantine, 1969.
  • Sherrod, Robert Lee.Tarawa: The Story of a Battle. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1944.
  • Short, K. R. M., ed.Film and Radio Propaganda in World War II. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
  • Shteppa, Konstantin F.Russian Historians and the Soviet State. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1962.
  • Sides, Hampton.Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission. New York: Doubleday, 2001.
  • Sledge, Eugene B.With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
  • Sloan, Bill.Given Up for Dead: America’s Heroic Stand at Wake Island. New York: Bantam Books, 2003.
  • Smith, Michael S.Bloody Ridge: The Battle That Saved Guadalcanal. Novato, Calif.: Presido Press, 2000.
  • Smith, Page.Democracy on Trial. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
  • Smithers, A. J.Taranto, 1940. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Soderbergh, Peter A.Women Marines: The World War II Era. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992.
  • Solberg, Carl.Decision and Dissent: With Halsey at Leyte Gulf. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
  • Spector, Ronald H.Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.
  • Stinnett, Robert B.Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. New York: Free Press, 2000.
  • Stokesbury, James L.A Short History of World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1980.
  • Sweeney, Michael S.Secrets of Victory: The Office of Censorship and the American Press and Radio in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  • Taylor, Frederick.Dresden, Tuesday, February 13, 1945. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
  • Thomas, Dorothy S., and Richard S. Nishimoto.The Spoilage: Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement During World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946.
  • Toland, John.Battle: The Story of the Bulge. Introduction by Carlo D’Este. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
  • Tomblin, Barbara.With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004.
  • Treadwell, Mattie E.The Women’s Army Corps. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1954.
  • Van Creveld, Martin.Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939–1995. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
  • Walker, J. Samuel.Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
  • Walling, Michael G.Bloodstained Sea: The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941–1944. Camden, Maine: International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2004.
  • Watt, Donald Cameron.Too Serious a Business: European Armored Forces and the Approach to the Second World War. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.
  • Weeks, Albert L.Russia’s Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004.
  • Weglyn, Michi Nishiura.Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.
  • Weigley, Russell F.Eisenhower’s Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
  • Weinberg, Gerhard L.A World at Arms. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • Welch, Bob.American Nightingale: The Story of Frances Slanger, Forgotten Heroine of Normandy. New York: Atria Books, 2004.
  • Wells, Mark K.Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
  • Wheeler, Richard.Iwo. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
  • Winchester, Jim, general ed.Aircraft of World War II. San Diego, Calif.: Thunder Bay Press, 2004.
  • Wragg, David W.Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003.
  • Yahara, Hiromichi.The Battle for Okinawa. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
  • Yellin, Emily.Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II. New York: Free Press, 2004.
  • Young, Donald J.The Battle of Bataan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992.
  • Young, Roland.Congressional Politics in the Second World War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1956.