End of War 2025 Symposium Booklist

Author: John Curatola  Pages: 320 Published: 2023 Armies Afloat: The U.S. Army’s Amphibious Campaigns in the Pacific During World War II by John Curatola offers a detailed and gripping analysis of how the U.S. Army conducted critical...

Autumn of Our Discontentby John CuratolaHardcover368 Pages2022 In the Fall of 1949, a series of international events shattered the notion that the United States would return to its traditional small peacetime military posture following World War II...

Bigger Bombs for A Brighter TomorrowBy: John CuratolaPaperback236 Pages Right after World War II, the United States felt secure in its atomic monopoly. With the American “Pax Atomica” in place, the free world held an apparent strategic...

Black Snow - Curtis LeMay, and the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bombby James ScottHardcover432 PagesSeptember 2022 “Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against...

Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II by John C. McManusPaperback476 Pages2016 This insightful chronicle takes readers inside the experiences of America’s fighter pilots and bomber crews, an incredible assortment of men who, in...

Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American Historyby Craig L. SymondsPaperback400 Pages From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action...

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire By: Richard B. FrankPaperback496 Pages Downfall is an analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing description...

Noriko Kawamura offers a balanced reappraisal of Emperor Hirohito’s role from the 1920s through Japan’s WWII surrender. Drawing on newly available documents, she traces the emperor’s influence, limitations, and the moral complexity of...

Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 By: John C. McManusPaperbackAugust 2020640 Pages WINNER OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORYAn engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, from the acclaimed author...

Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq By: John C. McManusPaperback528 Pages John C. McManus covers six decades of warfare in which the courage of American troops proved the crucial difference between victory...

Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle By: Richard B. FrankPaperback816 Pages A history of the battle at Guadalcanal draws on first-time translations of official Japanese defense accounts and declassified U.S. radio intelligence to...

Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 By John C McManus Paperback 208 pages The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4,...

Bradley W. Hart Paperback 304 Pages  2017 Bradley Hart uncovers the shocking history of American groups that supported Nazi Germany before and during World War II in Hitler’s American Friends. From business elites to political figures, this...

Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C. McManusHardback656 pages2021 In Fire and Fortitude—winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History—John C. McManus presented a riveting account of the US Army's...

Drawing on the rich photographic archives of the MacArthur Memorial, James W. Zobel delivers a visually dynamic and compelling portrait of General Douglas MacArthur. From his early military ascent to his pivotal leadership across major WWII Pacific...

Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landingsby Craig L. SymondsHardcover440 Pages Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the...

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay by Craig L. SymondsHardcoverJune 2022From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War...

Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe Michael Neiberg Hardcover 336 Pages 2015 After Germany’s defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce...

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila by James M. ScottHardcover640 Pages2018 The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific. Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated...

September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far By: John C. McManus Paperback512 Pages2013 Acclaimed historian John C. McManus explores World War II's most ambitious invasion, Operation Market Garden, an immense, daring offensive to defeat Nazi...

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayBy: Jonathan Parshall, Anthony TullyPaperback640 Pages Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is, without question, one of the most famous battles in...

Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolitte and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor By: James M. ScottHardcover672 Pages2015 In December 1941, as American forces tallied the dead at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered with his senior military counselors...

The Battle of Midway By: Craig L. Symonds Hardcover 464 Pages There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese...

The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 By: Michael NeibergHardcover352 Pages2012As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe—sites like Warsaw, Antwerp,...

The Dead and Those About to Die D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach by John C. McManusPaperback384 pages Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and...

The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines that Battled Japan James ScottPaperback448 Pages2013 This is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that helped win World War II in the Pacific. Focusing on the unique stories of three...

To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John McManusHardcover448 PagesMay 2023 From the liberation of the Philippines to the Japanese surrender, the final volume of John C. McManus's trilogy on the US Army in the Pacific...

Tower of Skulls  Richard B. Frank Hardcover 768 pages March, 2020 An eye-opening, pathbreaking account of the onset of the Asia-Pacific War, by the acclaimed author of Downfall and Guadalcanal. In 1937, the swath of the globe east from India to the...

In this concise yet powerful narrative, Michael Neiberg examines the collapse of France in 1940 and the emergence of the Vichy regime. Through focused storytelling and key turning points, Neiberg unpacks the political shockwaves across Europe—and...

“When the Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler” by David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House offers a groundbreaking and authoritative account of the Eastern Front during World War II. Challenging long-held assumptions, the authors...

World War II at Sea: A Global Historyby Craig SymondsHardcover792 Pages2018 Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the...