Category Archives: New WWII Books

New WWII Books Worth Reading

Posted on October 23, 2011 by

Ian Kershaw, The End: The Defiance and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45 (Penguin, 2011) [see review in NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/the-end-by-ian-kershaw-book-review.html?_r=1&ref=nazipoliciestowardjewsandminorities] Max Hastings, Inferno:  The World at War, 1939-1945 (Alfred Knopf, 2011)  [see review in NYTimes by Richard J. Evans http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/books/review/inferno-the-world-at-war-1939-1945-by-max-hastings-book-review.html?_r=1&ref=review] For a primary … Continue reading →

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WWII Books

Posted on October 2, 2011 by

Ian Kershaw, The End:  The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler”s Germany, 1944-1945 (Penguin, 2011) Ian Kershaw, Remembering Survival:  Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp (WW Norton, 2011) Michael Burleigh, Good and Evil in World War II (Harper, 2011)    

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World War II Books — Primary Sources and Diaries

Posted on September 28, 2010 by

1.  Konrad H. Jarausch ed., Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press)–January 4, 2011 [letters written by father of well-known German historian, Konrad Jarausch, during World War II; highly recommended] 2.  Frans Coetzee & … Continue reading →

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World War II Books

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

With each passing year interest in World War II continues to grow and so do the number of books published on that subject.  2010 and 2011 are no exceptions.  We’ve compiled a list of some of the more interesting books … Continue reading →

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