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The World War II Bibliography



General World War II Texts

Barjot, P., M. Baumont & J.-B. Duroselle. Le deuxieme conflict mondial. Paris; G.P., 1947. 2 vols. Paris, G.P., 1947.
Congdon, Don. Combat: The European Theatre, World War II. New York; Dell, 1958.
Divine, Robert A, ed. Causes and Consequences of World War II. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1969.
Ellis, Lionel F. History of the Second World War: Victory in the West. London; H.M.S.O., 1962.
Esposito, Vincent J. A Concise History of World War II London; Pall Mall, 1964.
Eubank, Keith, ed. World War II: Roots and Causes. Lexington, DC Heath, 1992.
Fussel, Paul. Wartime: Understanding Behavior in the Second World War. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1989.
Keegan, John & S.L. Mayer. Encyclopedia of World War II. London; Hamlyn, 1977.
Keegan, John. The Routledge Who's Who of World War II. London; Routledge, 1995.
Lee, Loyd E. The War Years: A Global History of the Second World War. Boston; Unwin-Hymans, 1989.
Macmillan, Harold. The Blast of War: 1939-1945. London; Macmillan, 1967.
Michel, Henri. La seconde geurre mondiale: 1939-1945. 2 Vols. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1977-1980.
Michel, Henri & Douglas Parmee. The Second World War. London; Deutch, 1975.
Parker, R.A.C. Struggle for Survival: The History of the Second World War. Oxford; Oxford University Press, 1989.
Pitt, Barrie, ed. The Military History of World War II. Twickenham; Temple Press, 1987.
Taylor, A.J.P. The Origins of the Second World War. Greenwich; Fawcett, 1961.
Thorne, Christopher. The Approach of War, 1938-1939. 2nd ed. London; Macmillan, 1968.
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge; Cambridge university press 1994
Young, Peter (Brigadier). World War II. London; Tiger Books, 1980.



Nazi Germany
Barkai, Auraham. Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, Policy. Berk; Oxford, 1990.
Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. Random House; New York, 1991.
Broszat, Martin. The Hitler State. London; Longman, 1985.
Childers, Thomas, ed. The Formation of the Nazi Constituency, 1919-1933. London; Croon Helm, 1986.
Dicks, H.V. Licenced Mass Murder: A Socio-Psychological Stidy of Some SS Killers. Sussex; University Press, 1972.
Freeman, M. Atlas of Nazi Germany. 2nd ed. Longman; London, 1995.
Gruber, G.S. History of the SS. Granada; London, 1980.
Kershaw, Ian. The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation. Edward Arnold; London, 1985.
Kirk, Tim. The Longman Companion to Nazi Germany. London; Longman, 1995.
Koch, H.W., ed. Aspects of the Third Reich. Macmillan; London, 1985.
Koehl, R.L. The Black Corps: The Structure and Power-struggles of the Nazi SS. University Press; Madison, 1983.
Kogon, Eugen. L'etat SS. Paris; Senil, 1947.
Manvell, Roger & Heinrich Fraenkel. Heinrich Himmler. New English Library; London, 1969.
Muhlberger, Detlef. Hitler's Followers: Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement. London; Routledge, 1991.
Noakes, J. and G. Pridham, eds. Nazism, 1919-1945. 2 vols. Exeter; University Press, 1987-1988.
Reitlinger, Gerald. The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945. Heinemann; London, 1956.
Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. Simon and Schuster; New York, 1960.
Shoenbaum, D. Hitler's Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany. Garden City (NY); Anchia Books, 1967.
Smith, Woodruff D. The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism. Oxford; University Press, 1986.
Speer, Albert. L'empire SS. Laffort; Paris, 1982.
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs. London; Weidefeld and Nicolson, 1970.
Spielvogel, Jackson J. Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History. Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Prentice Hall, 1988.
Trevor-Roper, H.R. Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944. Oxford; University Press, 1988.
Ziegers, Herbert F. Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy: The SS Leadership. Princeton; University Press, 1989.
Ziegler, Herbert Friedrich. The SS Feuhrer Corps: An Analysis of Its Socioeconomic and Demographic Structure, 1925-1938. University Microfilms International; Ann Harbour (Mich.), 1980.

Occupied Europe
BAEF, eds. The Belgian Campaign & Surrender of the Belgian Army, May 1940. New York; BAEF, 1940.
Bodson, Herman. Agent for the Resistance: A Belgian Saboteur in World War II. Texas A & M University Press, 1994.
Cammearts, Emile. The Situation of Belgium, 1939-1941. London; unknown, 1941.
Cammearts, Emile. A History of Belgium from the Roman Invasion to the Present Day. London; Fischer-Unwin, 1921.
Charles, J.-L. Les forces arm�es belges au cours de la deuxi�me guerre mondiale. Brussels; Renaissance, 1970.
Charles, J.-L. & P. Dagnoy. Les dossiers secrets de la police allemande en Belgique. Brussels; Arts & Voyages, 1972.
Conway, M. Collaboration in Belgium: L�on Degrelle and the Rexist Movement. New Haven; University Press, 1993.
Conway, M., J. Gotovitch, M. Efratas & A. Dantoing. Degrelle: les annees de collaboration. Ottiginies, Quarum, 1994.
De Beekes, Raymond. La collaboration en Belgique 1940-1949 ou une revolution avortee? Brussels; CRISP, 1970.
De Landsheere, Paul & Alphonse Ooms. La Belgique sous les Nazis. 4 Vols. Brussels; Editions Universelle, unknown.
Domke, Martin. Trading with the Enemy in World War II. New York; Central Book Company, 1943.
Durand, Y. Le nouvel ordre Europe�n Nazi: la collaboration dans l'Europe allemande. Brussels; Complexe, 1990.
Ellis, Lionel F. The War in France and Flanders: 1939-1940. London; H.M.S.O., 1953.
Gordon, B.M. Collaborationism in France During the Second World War. Ithaca; Cornell University Press, 1980.
Goris, Jan-Albert, ed. Belgium Under Occupation. Transl. by J. Goris. New York; Moretus Press, 1947.
Goris, Jan-Albert. Belgium in Bondage. New York; Fischer, 1943.
Krier, E. "Le rexisme et l'Allemagne, 1933-1940". Cahiers d'histoire de la Seconde Geurre mondiale. 5(1978).
Levy, C. Les nouveaux temps et l'ideologie de la collaboration. Paris; Fond. Nat. des Sciences Politiques, 1972.
Ory, Pascal. Les collaborateurs, 1940-1945. Paris, Seuil, 1976.
Ory, Pascal. La France allemande, 1933-1945: parols du collaborationisme francais. Paris; Gallimand, 1977.
Veillon, Dominique. La Collaboration. Paris; Librairie Generale Francaise, 1984.
Warmbrunn, Werner. The German Occupation of Belgium, 1940-1944. New York; Peter Lang, 1993.
Wullus-Rudiger, Armand J. La Belgique et la crise europ�ene, 1914-1945. Paris; Imprimie Moderne, 1945.
Wullus-Rudiger, A.J. Les origines internationales du drame belge de 1940. Brussels, Imprimeries, 1950.

The Normandy Landings on D-Day
Belfield, Eversley & H. Essame. The Battle for Normandy. London; Pan Books, 1983.
Howarth, David. Dawn of D-Day. London; Companion Book, 1959.

The War in Africa
Chamberlain, Peter & Chris Ellis. Afrikacorps. London; Almark, 1971.
Macksey, K.J. Rommel: Battles and Campaigns. London; Macdonald, 1979.
McGuirk, Dal. Rommel's Army in Africa. London; Stanley Paul, 1987.
Tute, Warren. The North African War. London; Sedgwick & Jackson, 1976.


Naval Warfare
Bekker, C.D. Sawastika at Sea. London; W. Kimber, 1953.
Bradford, Ernle. The Mighty Hood. London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
Brown, David. Tirpitz: The Floating Fortress. London; Arms & Armour Press, 1977.
Kennedy, Ludovic. Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck. London; Book Club, 1974.
Mordal, Jacques & A. Vulliez. Battleship Scharnhorst. London; Hutchinson, 1958.
Roskill, Capt. S.W. The War at Sea. London; HMSO, 1956-61.

Aircraft and Air War
Feist, Uwe and Rene J. Francillion. Luftwaffe in World War II. Fallbrook (Calif.); AERO, 1968.

Military Hardware of World War II
Ellis, Chris. Tanks of World War 2. London; Octopus Books, 1981.
Forty, George. United States Tanks of World War II. Poole; Blandford Press, 1983.
Warner, Philip. Firepower: From Slings to Star Wars. London; Grafton Books, 1988.
Grove, E., C. Chant, D. Lyon & H. Lyon. The Hardware of World War II. London, Orbis, 1982.


Biographies and Autobiographies
Thomson, Malcolm. The Life and Times of Winston Churchill. London; Odhams, 1945.
Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel. Heinrich Himmler. London; Heineman, 1965.



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