BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN
British Eighth Army under Montgomery decisively defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps at El Alamein, October-November 1942. Churchill: 'Before Alamein we never had a victory; after Alamein we never had a defeat.'
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.
An Army at Dawn
2002
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.
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.
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...
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.
A Time for Trumpets
1985
NON-FICTIONComprehensive history of the Battle of the Bulge by a historian who fought in it.
Kursk 1943
2013
NON-FICTIONAuthoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.
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.
Stalingrad
1998
MILITARY HISTORYThis gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civ...
Stalingrad Battle : Struggle in the East and the Turning Point of World War II
2021
MILITARY HISTORY
The battle for Stalingrad
1964
MILITARY HISTORYWritten by the commander of the 62nd (siberian) Army, the man responsible for Stalingrad's defense, this dramatic record of the single most important battle of World War II is presented with an introd...
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.
The Road to Stalingrad
1975
NON-FICTIONFirst volume of Erickson's monumental two-volume history of the Soviet-German war, covering the catastrophic opening campaigns through the winter of 1942.