EL ALAMEIN: THE BATTLE FOR NORTH AFRICA
El Alamein: The Battle That Turned the Tide of the Second World War
2002
NON-FICTIONAuthoritative account of the battles of El Alamein that ended Rommel's advance and secured the British position in North Africa.
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944
2007
NON-FICTIONSecond volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy, covering the brutal Allied campaign through Sicily and up the Italian peninsula.
The Rommel Papers
1953
MEMOIRRommel's own diaries and notes from the North Africa campaign, edited by military historian Liddell Hart after Rommel's death.
An Army at Dawn
2002
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.
States and Power in Africa
2014
NON-FICTIONOriginally published: A2000. With new preface and revised chapter nine by the author.
Together We Stand: North Africa 1942–1943: Turning the Tide in the West
2015
NON-FICTIONFrom the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This book looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the in...
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.
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.
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.
Panzer Battles
1956
MEMOIRMemoir of a senior German staff officer covering tank operations on all fronts, with detailed analysis of armored doctrine and tactics.
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.
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.
A Bridge Too Far
1974
NON-FICTIONThe definitive account of Operation Market Garden — the bold Allied airborne assault into Holland that ended in catastrophe at Arnhem.
The Battle of Kursk
1999
NON-FICTIONThe definitive operational history of Kursk — the largest tank battle ever fought — drawing on Soviet and German archives to provide a day-by-day account of the fighting.