WORLD WAR II (PACIFIC)
Canada's post-cold-war military blues and it's lessons for Australia
2000
MILITARY HISTORYKokoda
2004
NON-FICTIONThe dramatic story of Australian and American troops fighting Japanese forces along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea — the campaign that stopped Japan's advance toward Australia.
The Military Engineer
1950
NON-FICTION"Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American Military Engineers, 1935" inserted in v. 27.
The Military Engineer; Journal of the Society of American Military Engineers
1950
NON-FICTIONEnemy 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.
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.
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.
Kursk 1943
2013
NON-FICTIONAuthoritative account of the greatest tank battle in history.
An Army at Dawn
2002
NON-FICTIONPulitzer Prize-winning first volume of Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy covering the North Africa campaign.
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.
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.
Catch-22
1961
MILITARY HISTORY*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...
The Second World War
1948
MILITARY HISTORYNever before in history have there been combined in one man the character, the political leadership, the military perception and the eloquence which our generation has known in Winston Churchill. It i...
D-Day, June 6, 1944
1994
MILITARY HISTORYSee work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL478604W
D-Day
2014
MILITARY HISTORYPresents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II. Adapted for young reade...
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...
Korean War
2017
MILITARY HISTORYIt was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings—preeminent military historian—takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to...
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.
The Siege: Three Years on the Eastern Front
2011
NON-FICTIONDefinitive account of the 900-day siege of Leningrad, drawing on diaries, letters, and Soviet archives to portray civilian and military life under blockade.