TOKYO EXPRESS: THE GUADALCANAL NAVAL CAMPAIGN – 1942
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.
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.
A Time for Trumpets
1985
NON-FICTIONComprehensive history of the Battle of the Bulge by a historian who fought in it.
Band of Brothers
1992
NON-FICTIONThe story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, from D-Day to the end of the war in Europe. Basis for the HBO miniseries.
Citizen Soldiers
1997
NON-FICTIONThe story of the American infantryman in the ETO from the breakout after D-Day to the fall of Germany, based on hundreds of veteran interviews.
Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]
2015
FICTIONOn the 16th of December, 1944, in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, the German army attacked American Allied forces, launching a final bid to turn the tide of World War II. Thus began the long, hard...
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.
D-Day: June 6, 1944
1994
NON-FICTIONThe climactic battle of World War II told through the accounts of those who were there.
The Longest Day
1959
NON-FICTIONClassic account of the Normandy invasion from all perspectives — Allied, German, and French civilian.
Shattered Sword
2005
NON-FICTIONRevolutionary account of Midway from the Japanese perspective, debunking many myths.
Miracle at Midway
1982
NON-FICTIONDetailed reconstruction of the battle that turned the tide in the Pacific.
Normandy Invasion 1944 Poster
2007
MILITARY HISTORYNormandy Invasion, June 1944
2013
MILITARY HISTORY
Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
1984
NON-FICTIONCritical analysis of the Normandy campaign arguing that Allied infantry performance fell short against the Wehrmacht despite material superiority.
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
2005
NON-FICTIONRevisionist operational account of Midway from the Japanese perspective, drawing on previously unavailable Japanese records to overturn the conventional American narrative.
Normandy 44
2019
NON-FICTION________________ Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new perspective on one of the most important moments in recent history. Unflinchingly examining the brutality and v...
Normandy
2020
NON-FICTION'A devastating new account..Holland knows his stuff when it comes to military matters' Daily Mail, Book of the Week 'A superb account of the invasion that deserves immense praise. To convey the human ...