PACIFIC FLEET
The Fall of Berlin, 1945
2002
NON-FICTIONChronicles the horror of Berlin's fall to the Soviets in 1945, recalling the starvation, exposure, artillery fire, rape, and mass destruction that marked the Red Army's final push on Germany's capital...
Berlin
2007
MEMOIRThe Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Political instructors rammed home the message of Wehrmacht and SS brutality. The result was the most...
The Fall of Berlin 1945
2003
NON-FICTION"A tale drenched in drama and blood, heroism and cowardice, loyalty and betrayal."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Th...
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
2007
NON-FICTIONComprehensive history of the Soviet-German war drawing on newly opened Russian archives. Covers the full sweep from Barbarossa to Berlin.
Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941–45
1965
NON-FICTIONGripping operational narrative of the Eastern Front campaign from the 1941 invasion to Germany's defeat. A foundational text of Eastern Front history.
Operation Barbarossa
2011
NON-FICTIONOn 22 June 1941 Hitler unleashed his forces on the Soviet Union. Spearheaded by four powerful Panzer groups and protected by an impenetrable curtain of air support, the seemingly invincible Wehrmacht ...
Barbarossa Derailed
2014
NON-FICTIONThe supplemental companion to a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II. Volume three, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, conta...
Barbarossa Derailed: the Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941
2016
NON-FICTIONThis groundbreaking new study, now significantly expanded, exploits a wealth of Soviet and German archival materials, including the combat orders and operational of the German OKW, OKH, army groups, a...
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
1981
MEMOIROne of the most powerful firsthand accounts of combat ever written. A U.S. Marine's unsparing memoir of the Pacific island-hopping campaign.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
2011
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the brutal naval campaign for Guadalcanal, covering six major sea battles fought in Iron Bottom Sound.
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
MEMOIRWar correspondent's firsthand diary of the Marines' desperate first weeks on Guadalcanal — one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of WWII Pacific combat.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
1980
MEMOIRManchester revisits the Pacific battlefields of his youth, weaving personal memoir with historical narrative across Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Okinawa.
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
1986
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize–winning analysis of the racial dimensions of the Pacific War, examining how both American and Japanese propaganda dehumanized the enemy and intensified the conflict's brutality.
Armies in Europe
1980
NON-FICTIONGeschiedenis van de rol van het leger in vredestijd en van de oorlogvoering van de Franse revolutie tot en met de tweede wereldoorlog.
Battleground Berlin
1997
NON-FICTION"Battleground Berlin" covers the era of the Cold War, focusing on activities in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from 1945 to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. 20 illustrations.
From Yalta to Berlin
1999
NON-FICTIONA history of Germany from the end of World War II to the present day examines the implications of the war in terms of the division of Germany, the impact of the Cold War, the events that led to reunif...
Leaving Berlin
2016
FICTIONTargeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.
Enemy at the Gates
1973
NON-FICTIONThe definitive account of the Battle of Stalingrad, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides.
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege
1998
NON-FICTIONBeevor's masterful account of the battle that changed the course of WWII on the Eastern Front.
Kursk 1943
2013
NON-FICTIONAuthoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.